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

103A   After paragraph 118(1)(b)

Insert:

(ba) to prevent, detect, investigate and respond to misuse or abuse of, or criminal activity involving, the National Disability Insurance Scheme (whether systemic or otherwise) where this relates to:

(i) claims for payment under the National Disability Insurance Scheme, the payment of NDIS amounts or the use of funding provided under the National Disability Insurance Scheme; or

(ii) information provided to the Agency by or in relation to a participant or prospective participant, including in connection with access requests, a person's continued status as a participant, the preparation, variation, reassessment or replacement of a participant's plan or the management of the funding for supports under a participant's plan; or

(iii) the management of the funding for supports under a participant's plan by, or the duties or obligations of, a nominee or person who may do a thing because of section 74, including the appointment, or the suspension or cancellation of the appointment, of a nominee or the making or revocation of a determination under paragraph 74(1)(b);