National Disability Insurance Scheme (Registered NDIS Provider Notice of Changes and Events) Guidelines 2019 (Cth)

National Disability Insurance Scheme (Registered NDIS Provider Notice of Changes and Events) Guidelines 2019

I, Graeme Head, Commissioner of the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission, make the following Guidelines.

Dated 23 December 2019

Graeme Head Commissioner of the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission

Contents

Contents Introduction Part 1 – Preliminary 1 Name 2 Commencement 3 Authority 4 Definitions Part 2 – Purpose of Guidelines 5 Purpose Part 3 – Giving Commissioner notice of certain changes 6 Changes to contact details 7 Change in the scale of the provider relating to registered classes of supports Part 4 – Giving Commissioner notice of certain events 8 Paragraph 13A(1)(a)- Significant effect on ability to comply with registration conditions 9 Paragraph 13A(1)(b)- Adverse changes to access to services 10 Paragraph 13A(1)(c)- Adverse changes in financial capacity 11 Paragraph 13A(1)(d)- Change in organisation or governance arrangements 12 Paragraph 13A(1)(e)- Events related to provider suitability 13 Paragraph 13A(1)(f)- Events related to key personnel suitability Part 5 – Other matters in relation to giving notice of changes and events 14 Giving notice under both sections 13 and 13A 15 Commissioner's actions in response to notice of changes or events

Introduction

This instrument is made by the Commissioner of the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission (NDIS Commission). The Commissioner is assisted by staff of the NDIS Commission to perform a range of functions under the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013 (the Act). These include the Commissioner's registration and reportable incident functions, including the function of monitoring registered NDIS providers' compliance with their conditions of registration.

Section 73H of the Act provides that the National Disability Insurance Scheme rules may determine that each registration, or each registration included in a specified class of registration, is taken to include one or more specified conditions.