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Certification or Verification Decision
19 NDIS Provider Certification and Verification documentation
20 JAS‑ANZ Register
21 Mid‑term audit
22 Recertification and reverification
23 Changes Affecting NDIS Provider Certification or Verification Decisions
24 Termination, Reduction, Suspension or Withdrawal of Certification Verification Decisions
25 Records
26 Complaints and appeals
27 Provisional audits
28 Approved Quality Auditor's Auditors and Personnel
29 Management of Competence for Personnel Involved in the Certification and Verification Process
30 Competence Requirements for Auditors, including auditors with technical expertise
31 Audit Team Roles
32 Auditors with Technical Expertise
33 Consumer Technical Experts
34 Evaluation Processes
35 Mechanism for Safeguarding Impartiality
36 Transitional matters‑Surveillance (monitoring) and mid‑term audits
Annex A – Code of Conduct for Approved Quality Auditors (normative)
Annex B – Audit methodology and sampling (normative)
Annex C – Timeframe for correcting non‑conformities
Annex D – Registration classes/groups exempted from sampling requirements
Endnotes
Endnote 1—About the endnotes
Endnote 2—Abbreviation key
Endnote 3—Legislation history
Endnote 4—Amendment history

Introduction

This instrument is made by the Commissioner of the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission (the Commissioner).  The Commissioner is assisted by the staff of the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission (the Commission) to perform a range of functions under the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013 (Act).  These include functions related to approved quality auditors and the assessments they conduct under the Act.

This instrument is underpinned by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) to prevent exploitation, violence and abuse of people with disability and is intended to uphold the rights of people with disability. To support this, this instrument makes consumer technical experts (CTEs), or people with disability, part of the audit process. The Commission, along with the Department of Social Services, will work closely with key stakeholders to design the CTEs arrangements under this instrument.

Overview of the core accreditation processes for the Approved Quality Auditors Scheme

This instrument supports the delivery of certification and verification services by Certification Bodies seeking accreditation in alignment with ISO/IEC 17065:2012 towards becoming an approved quality auditor under the NDIS Approved Quality Auditors Scheme. The JAS‑ANZ accreditation criteria for becoming a Certification Body are set out in subsection 6(4).

The Approved Quality Auditors Scheme provides the framework for auditing of registered NDIS providers, including the approval process for approved quality auditors who will conduct the audits.  The standard approval process will recognise accreditation of an auditor to ISO/IEC 17065:2012. The intention of the Approved Quality Auditors Scheme is to set out the accredited third party conformity assessment regime to which NDIS providers will be subject. All registered NDIS providers offering supports and services to participants must meet quality and safety requirements in the Act (and NDIS rules).

The conformity