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for Teenagers with Disability

           (vi)         Remote Vision and Hearing Services.

                     Paragraph 3.5 is made for the purposes of paragraph 21(2)(b)(iii) of the Act.

       Part 4 Other matters

Citation

    4.1 These Rules may be cited as the National Disability Insurance Scheme (Prescribed Programs—New South Wales) Rules 2016.

Interpretation

    4.2 These Rules include text that summarises provisions of the Act. The boxed notes identify such text, which does not form an operative part of these Rules.

    4.3 Terms and expressions that are used in the Act have the same meaning in these Rules unless these Rules display a contrary intention—see the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 and the Legislative Instruments Act 2003, which include definitions and rules of interpretation that apply to all Commonwealth legislation. For convenience, the more important definitions from the Act are identified or reproduced in paragraph 4.4.

    4.4 In these Rules:

    Act means the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013.

    age requirementssee section 22 of the Act.

    CEOsee section 9 of the Act.

    disability requirementssee section 24 of the Act.

    early intervention requirementssee section 25 of the Act.

    NDIS means the National Disability Insurance Scheme (see section 9 of the Act).

    participantsee section 9 of the Act.

    qualifying period has the meaning given by paragraph 3.4.

    qualifying program has the meaning given by paragraph 3.5.

    qualifying time has the meaning given by paragraph 3.3.

    request means access request as defined in section 18 of the Act.

    residence requirementssee section 23 of the Act.