Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00129:section:118:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00129
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 118 (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 355024–358063

118  Functions of the Agency
 (1) The Agency has the following functions:
 (a) to deliver the National Disability Insurance Scheme so as to:
 (i) support the independence, and social and economic participation, of people with disability; and
 (ii) enable people with disability to exercise choice and control in the pursuit of their goals and the planning and delivery of their supports; and
 (iii) ensure that the decisions and preferences of people with disability are respected and given appropriate priority; and
 (iv) promote the provision of high quality and innovative supports that enable people with disability to maximise independent lifestyles and inclusion in the community; and
 (v) ensure that a reasonable balance is achieved between safety and the right of people with disability to choose to participate in activities involving risk;
 (b) to manage, and to advise and report on, the financial sustainability of the National Disability Insurance Scheme including by:
 (i) regularly making and assessing estimates of the current and future expenditure of the National Disability Insurance Scheme; and
 (ii) identifying and managing risks and issues relevant to the financial sustainability of the National Disability Insurance Scheme; and
 (iii) considering actuarial advice, including advice from the scheme actuary and the reviewing actuary;
 (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);
 (c) to develop and enhance the disability sector, including by facilitating innovation, research and contemporary best practice in the sector;
 (d) to build community awareness of disabilities and the social contributors to disabilities;
 (e) to collect, analyse and exchange data about disabilities and the supports (including early intervention supports) for people with disability;
 (f) to undertake research relating to disabilities, the supports (including early intervention supports) for people with disability and the social contributors to disabilities;
 (g) any other functions conferred on