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ensures equity of access to the NDIS for such participants, including where there is an unmet need for the participant.

                      Paragraph 2.4 summarises the effect of subsection 32(3) of the Act.

    2.5 In urgent circumstances, the CEO can commence the facilitation of the preparation of a participant's plan at a particular time, despite the sequence set out in the table in paragraph 2.6. If the CEO does so, the CEO is able to delay the commencement of the facilitation of the preparation of other participants' plans, so far as is reasonably necessary, even if that delay would be contrary to that sequence.

                     Paragraph 2.5 summarises the effect of subsection 32A(3) of the Act.

    2.6 The eleven classes of participants, and the circumstances in which the CEO is to commence the facilitation of the preparation of plans for participants in those classes, are as follows:
Class     Participants in the class                                                                                                                                                 Circumstances in which the CEO is to commence the facilitation of the preparation of the participants' plans
Class 1   Participants who the CEO determines:                                                                                                                                      Between 1 July 2016 and 30 June 2018.

              a)           to have the most urgent need for supports and who are on the Victorian Disability Support Register administered under the Disability Act (Vic) 2006, or

              b)           are on the Early Childhood Intervention Services waitlist.
Class 2   Participants who reside in the North Eastern Melbourne and Barwon districts of Victoria, as those areas are defined in Schedule A to this Instrument.                     The CEO decides (on or after 1 July 2016) that the Agency has the capacity to commence the facilitation of the preparation of the participants' plans.
Class 3   Participants who reside in the Central Highlands district of Victoria, as that area is defined in Schedule A to this Instrument.                                          The CEO decides (on or after 1 January 2017) that the Agency has the capacity to commence the facilitation of the preparation of the participants' plans, in light of the number of participants in the above classes whose plans have been dealt with and the number yet to be dealt with.
Class 4   Participants who reside in the Loddon district of Victoria, as that area is defined in Schedule A to this Instrument.                                                     The CEO decides (on or after 1 May 2017) that the Agency has the capacity to commence the facilitation of the preparation of the participants' plans, in light of the number of participants in the above classes whose plans have been dealt with and the number yet to be dealt with.
Class 5   Participants who reside in the Inner Gippsland, Ovens Murray and Western District districts of Victoria, as those areas are defined in Schedule A to this Instrument.     The CEO decides (on or after 1