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Adult Disability Assessment Determination 2018

I, Kathryn Campbell, Secretary of the Department of Social Services, make the following instrument.

Dated 9 August 2018

Kathryn Campbell
Secretary of the Department of Social Services

Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1.1 Name
1.2 Commencement
1.3 Authority
1.4 Definitions
1.5 Treating health professional..................................1
1.6 Disability assessment components..............................1

Part 2—Adult Disability Assessment Tool 3
2.1 Questionnaires..........................................3
2.2 Testing method..........................................3
2.3        Rating method..........................................3
Schedule 1—Questionnaires  5
                   Part 1        Claimant questionnaire........................................5
                   Part 2        Professional questionnaire.....................................11

Schedule 2—Rating method  15

Part 1—Preliminary

1.1  Name
  This instrument is the Adult Disability Assessment Determination 2018.

1.2  Commencement
  This instrument commences on 1 October 2018.

1.3  Authority
  This instrument is made under section 38C of the Social Security Act 1991.

1.4  Definitions
Note: Some expressions used in this instrument are defined in sections 5 and 23 of the Act, including the following:
               (a)      dependent child;
               (b)      officer;
               (c)      Secretary.
  In this instrument:
Act means the Social Security Act 1991.
adult means a person aged 16 or more.
claimant means a person mentioned in subsection 2.1(2).
claimant questionnaire means the questionnaire mentioned in subsection 2.1(1).
professional questionnaire means the questionnaire mentioned in subsection 2.1(3).
treating health professional means a person approved under section 1.5.

1.5  Treating health professional
        (1)    The Secretary may approve a person as a treating health professional.
        (2)    The Secretary may also approve a class of persons as treating health professionals.

        Note A treating health professional is the only person who can complete the questionnaire set out in Part 2 of Schedule 1 (see subsections 2.1(3) and (4)).

1.6  Disability assessment components
  Part 2 of this instrument sets out the Adult Disability Assessment Tool.

       Note Under subsection 38C(1) of the Act, the Secretary may, by legislative instrument (the determination):
         (a)      devise a test for assessing the disability, emotional state, behaviour and special care
             needs of a person aged 16 or more; and
       (b)     provide a method for rating the person by giving him or her, on the basis of the
                 results of the test, a score in accordance with a scale.

       Under subsection 38C(3) of the Act, the part of the determination setting out the test and the rating method is the Adult Disability Assessment Tool.

Part 2—Adult Disability Assessment Tool

2.1  Questionnaires
        (1)    Part 1 of Schedule 1 sets out a questionnaire (the claimant questionnaire) about disability, emotional state, behaviour and special care needs of an adult.
        (2)    The claimant questionnaire may be completed only by a person (the claimant) wishing:
            (a)    to claim a carer allowance or carer payment, or both, under the Act for the care of an adult; or
            (b)    to continue to be qualified for receiving carer allowance or carer payment, or both, under the Act