National Disability Insurance Scheme (Facilitating the Preparation of Participants' Plans—Victoria) Rules 2016 (Cth)

National Disability Insurance Scheme (Facilitating the Preparation of Participants' Plans—Victoria) Rules 2016

National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013 (the Act)

The Act establishes the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).

People who are participants in the NDIS will be assisted to develop a personal, goal‑based plan about how they will be provided with general supports and reasonable and necessary supports.

The NDIS will respect the interests of people with disability in exercising choice and control about matters that affect them.

National Disability Insurance Scheme (Facilitating the Preparation of Participants' Plans—Victoria) Rules 2016

These Rules are made for the purposes of sections 32 and 32A (other than subsection 32A(4)) of the Act.

These Rules are about the circumstances in which the facilitation of the preparation of participants' plans will commence in the State of Victoria.

These Rules revoke the National Disability Insurance Scheme (Facilitating the Preparation of Participants' Plans—Victoria) Rules 2013.

These Rules commence the day after this instrument is registered.

The Hon. Christian Porter MP Minister for Social Services

Dated: 5 May 2016 Contents

National Disability Insurance Scheme (Facilitating the Preparation of Participants' Plans—Victoria) Rules 2016

Part 1 What these Rules are about

Part 2 Preparation of plans for residents of Victoria

Part 3 Other matters Citation Interpretation

Schedule A

Part 1 What these Rules are about

1.1 Each participant in the NDIS will have a plan, prepared by and with the participant and approved by the CEO of the Agency. Among other things, a participant's plan sets out the supports that will be funded for the participant.

1.2 To enable an orderly transition, participants will be phased into the NDIS. There are two steps involved in accessing supports under the NDIS. The first is to become a participant: the prospective participant makes an access request and the CEO decides whether they meet the access criteria. The second is for the participant to have a plan approved by the CEO of the Agency. These Rules relate to the second step, and the order in which the CEO will commence the facilitation of the preparation of plans for different groups, or "classes", of participants.