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

83   After subsection 47A(2)

Insert:

Requirements for CEO - new framework plans

(2A) In varying a new framework plan in relation to the statement of participant supports, the CEO must:

(a) have regard to the participant's statement of goals and aspirations; and

(b) be satisfied as mentioned in paragraph 32D(6)(b) in relation to any general supports to be provided; and

(c) have regard to the principle that a participant should manage the participant's plan to the extent that the participant wishes to do so; and

(d) have regard to the operation and effectiveness of the plan and any previous plans of the participant; and

(e) have regard to whether section 46 (acquittal of NDIS amounts) was complied with in relation to the plan and any previous plans of the participant; and

(f) be satisfied of any matters specified in the National Disability Insurance Scheme rules for the purposes of this paragraph.