Disability Services Regulation 2017 (Qld)

Disability Services Regulation 2017

Part 1 Preliminary

1 Short title This regulation may be cited as the Disability Services Regulation 2017.

2 Commencement This regulation commences on 1 July 2017.

3 Interpretation In this regulation— unique client identifier, for an adult, means the unique number allocated to the adult by the department.

Part 2 Disability worker screening

4 Prescribed service— Act , s 12 For section 12(1)(g) of the Act, a service that is related to the provision of care and support, or protection to a forensic disability client at the Forensic Disability Service under the Forensic Disability Act 2011 is prescribed for part 5 of the Act.

5 Prescribed entities for NDIS worker screening application— Act , s 65 (1) For section 65(a)(iii) of the Act, the following entities are prescribed— (a) the Agency; (b) the NDIS commission; (c) a service provider that receives Commonwealth funding to provide any of the following services or supports to people with disability— (i) a service known as a local area coordination service; (ii) a support provided to an NDIS participant known as an early intervention support for early childhood; (iii) a service or support provided under a program called the information linkages and capacity building program administered by the department of the Commonwealth responsible for administering the Social Security Act 1991 (Cwlth); (d) an NDIS service provider that receives Commonwealth funding to provide a continuity of support service. (2) A continuity of support service is a disability service provided by an entity to a person with disability if— (a) the entity is an NDIS service provider; and (b) the person is aged— (i) if the person is an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person—50 years or more; or (ii) otherwise—65 years old; and (c) an NDIS support or service that is of the same kind as the disability service is available to be provided to persons in the area in which the disability service is provided to the person; and (d) the entity or another entity provided the disability service to the person before the NDIS support or service became available in the area. (3) In this section— Agency see the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013 (Cwlth), section 9. Commonwealth funding means recurrent or one-off funds from a department of the Commonwealth. NDIS participant means a person who is a participant in the national disability insurance scheme under the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013 (Cwlth).