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

4   Section 9

Insert:

Disability Minister for a host jurisdiction means the Minister of the host jurisdiction who is a member of the Ministerial Council.

First Minister for a host jurisdiction means:

(a) if the host jurisdiction is a State - the Premier of the State; or

(b) if the host jurisdiction is a Territory - the Chief Minister of the Territory.

flexible funding has the meaning given by paragraph 32E(2)(a).

funding component amount , for a group of reasonable and necessary supports funded under an old framework plan, has the meaning given by paragraph 33(2A)(c).

funding period :

(a) for flexible funding provided under a new framework plan - has the meaning given by paragraph 32F(2)(a); and

(b) for funding provided under a new framework plan for a stated support or class of stated supports - has the meaning given by paragraph 32G(3)(a); and

(c) for funding provided under an old framework plan for all reasonable and necessary supports, or a group of reasonable and necessary supports, funded under the plan - has the meaning given by paragraph 33(2A)(d).

Indigenous person means a person who is:

(a) a member of the Aboriginal race of Australia; or

(b) a descendant of an Indigenous inhabitant of the Torres Strait Islands.