National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Getting the NDIS Back on Track No. 1) Act 2024 (81 of 2024)

Schedule 1   Main amendments

Part 1   Amendment of the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013

National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013

122A   After subsection 209(6)

Insert:

(6A) A failure to comply with subsection (4), (5) or (6) does not invalidate the making of National Disability Insurance Scheme rules if the Minister reasonably believed, when making those rules:

(a) for Category A National Disability Insurance Scheme rules:

(i) that sections 209A, 209B and 209C, as applicable, were complied with in relation to the making of the rules; and

(ii) that each host jurisdiction had agreed to the making of the rules; or

(b) for Category B National Disability Insurance Scheme rules relating to an area, law or program of a host jurisdiction:

(i) that section 209D was complied with in relation to the making of the rules; and

(ii) that the host jurisdiction had agreed to the making of the rules; or

(c) for Category C National Disability Insurance Scheme rules:

(i) that section 209D was complied with in relation to the making of the rules; and

(ii) that the Commonwealth and a majority of host jurisdictions had agreed to the making of the rules.