National Disability Insurance Scheme (Facilitating the Preparation of Participants’ Plans—Northern Territory) Rules 2016 (Cth)

National Disability Insurance Scheme (Facilitating the Preparation of Participants' Plans—Northern Territory) 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—Northern Territory) 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 Northern Territory. These Rules commence on the day after this instrument is registered.

Senator the Hon. Mitch Fifield Acting Minister for Social Services

Dated: 14 December 2016 Contents

National Disability Insurance Scheme (Facilitating the Preparation of Participants' Plans—Northern Territory) Rules 2016 Part 1 What these Rules are about Part 2 Preparation of plans for residents of the Northern Territory Part 3 Other matters Citation Interpretation

Part 1 What these Rules are about 1.1 Each participant in the Northern Territory 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 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 where a person 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, known as 'classes', of participants. 1.3 In the Northern Territory, the NDIS transition will be undertaken on a staged basis. The National Disability Insurance Scheme (Becoming a Participant) Rules 2016 set out a geographically based sequence for the entry of new Northern Territory participants into the NDIS. These Rules explain how these participants will be phased into the NDIS. 1.4 The phasing schedule is intended to give effect to agreements that have been reached between the Governments of the Commonwealth and the Northern Territory. 1.5 The Act sets out a number of objects and principles for the NDIS, to which these Rules give effect. In giving effect to the objects, regard is to be had to the progressive implementation of the NDIS and the need to ensure the financial sustainability of the NDIS.