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National Disability Insurance Scheme (Prescribed Program—Western Australia) Rules 2018

National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013 (the Act).

The Act establishes the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).

People who are participants in the NDIS will be assisted to develop a personal, goal‑based plan about how they will be provided with general supports and reasonable and necessary supports.

The NDIS will respect the interests of people with disability in exercising choice and control about matters that affect them.

National Disability Insurance Scheme (Prescribed Program—Western Australia) Rules 2018.

This instrument is made for the purposes of sections 21 and 209 of the Act.

This instrument is about ensuring that people in Western Australia who are currently receiving supports from certain specified State funded disability services will be supported as participants in the NDIS, provided that they meet the access criteria set out in section 21 of the Act.

This instrument commences on the day after this instrument is registered.

The Hon Dan Tehan MP
Minister for Social Services

Date: 10 May 2018

Contents

National Disability Insurance Scheme (Prescribed Program—Western Australia) Rules 2018

Part 1 What this instrument is about

Part 2 Prescribed program

Part 3 Other matters
Citation
Interpretation

       Part 1 What this instrument is about

    1.1         The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), as administered by the National Disability Insurance Agency (Agency), was initially implemented in Western Australia at the Perth Hills trial site.

    1.2         The State of Western Australia (WA) also implemented an NDIS comparative model, the WA NDIS Model. This model is funded or administered by the WA Department of Communities under the Disability Services Act 1993 (WA) and in the context of the WA NDIS Model, an Existing WA NDIS Participant is a participant under that Act.

    1.3         The Commonwealth of Australia and WA have agreed that the NDIS will be implemented in Western Australia progressively as set out in the National Disability Insurance Scheme (Becoming a Participant) Rules 2016. The WA NDIS Model will cease in each NDIS area in Western Australia upon transition of that area to the NDIS.

    1.4         To access the NDIS, each Existing WA NDIS Participant must make an access request to the Agency to become a participant under the NDIS. Under subsection 21(2) of the Act, a person who does not meet the access criteria specified under subsection 21(1), may be considered against the alternative access criteria under subsection 21(2).

    1.5         This instrument is made for the purposes of subsection 21(2) and section 209 of the Act. This instrument makes the WA NDIS Model a prescribed program for the purpose of subparagraph 21(2)(b)(iii) of the Act. This instrument is to give effect to the agreement between the Commonwealth of Australia and WA to transition