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tailored to particular impairments.
    7.5 A tool must:
       (a) be designed to ensure the fair and transparent assessment of whether a person meets the disability requirements or the early intervention requirements; and
       (b) have reference to areas of activity and social and economic participation identified in the World Health Organisation International Classification of Functions, Disability and Health as in force from time to time.

                     This Part is made for the purposes of subsection 209(2A) of the Act.

       Part 8 Other matters

Citation
    8.1 This Instrument may be cited as the National Disability Insurance Scheme (Becoming a Participant) Rules 2016.

Interpretation
    8.2 This Instrument includes text that summarises provisions of the Act. The boxed notes identify such text, which does not form an operative part of this Instrument.
    8.3 Terms and expressions that are used in the Act have the same meaning in this Instrument unless this Instrument displays a contrary intention—see the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 and the Legislation 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 8.4.
    8.4 In this Instrument:
    2013 NDIS launch area means:
       (a) South Australia;
       (b) Tasmania;
       (c) the areas that comprise the following municipal districts of Victoria as at
       1 July 2013:
           (i) Colac-Otway Shire;
           (ii) City of Greater Geelong;
           (iii) Borough of Queenscliffe;
           (iv) Surf Coast Shire;
       (d) the areas that comprise the following areas of New South Wales constituted under the Local Government Act 1993 (NSW) as at 1 July 2013:
           (i) Lake Macquarie City;
           (ii) Maitland City;
           (iii) Newcastle City.
    2014 NDIS launch area means:
        (a)  the areas that comprise the following districts of Western Australia declared under section 2.1 of the Local Government Act 1995 (WA) as at 1 July 2014 (those areas, together, are known for the purposes of this Instrument as Perth Hills):
           (i)  Shire of Kalamunda;
           (ii)  Shire of Mundaring;
           (iii)  City of Swan;
       (b)  the area that comprises the Barkly Region in the Northern Territory as defined under section 9 of the Local Government Act (NT) as at 1 July 2014 (that area is known for the purposes of this Instrument as the Barkly Region);
       (c)  the Australian Capital Territory.
    Note: reference to the Australian Capital Territory in this Instrument does not include the Jervis Bay Territory.
    2015 NDIS early transition area means:
    (a)  the areas that comprise the following areas of New South Wales constituted under the Local Government Act 1993 (NSW) as at 1 July 2015:

        (i)  City of Blue Mountains;

        (ii)  City of Hawkesbury;

        (iii)  City of Lithgow;

        (iv)  City of Penrith.

    Act means the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013.