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of NDIS amounts (that is, payments under the NDIS in respect of reasonable and necessary supports funded under a participant's plan). In particular, this Part deals with the timing of payments of NDIS amounts, and the manner of paying NDIS amounts.

    2.3 Part 5 deals with temporary absences of participants from Australia. In particular, it deals with extensions of the 6 week grace period for absences from Australia.

    2.4 Part 6 deals with how supports are described in a participant's plan. In particular, it deals with when supports should be specifically identified in a plan.

    2.5 Part 7 deals with other matters, including interpretation of these Rules.

       Part 3 When self-management of funding will pose unreasonable risk to participant

    3.1 A participant's plan includes a statement of participant supports that specifies, among other things:

       (a) the reasonable and necessary supports (if any) that will be funded under the NDIS; and

       (b) the management of the funding for supports under the plan.

    3.2 A participant is able, during the planning process, to make a plan management request that specifies who the participant wishes to manage the funding for supports under the plan. The plan must specify that the funding is to be managed wholly, or to an extent specified in the plan, by any of the participant, a registered plan management provider, the Agency or the plan nominee.

    3.3 There are some restrictions under the Act on the extent to which participants are able to self-manage the funding for supports under their plan.

    3.4 A participant will not be able to self-manage the funding for supports under their plan to any extent if they are an insolvent under administration.

    3.5 Nor will a participant be able to manage the funding for supports under their plan to a particular extent if the CEO is satisfied that this would present an unreasonable risk to the participant.

    3.6 This Part relates to deciding whether there would be an unreasonable risk to the participant if the participant (or the participant's plan nominee or child's representative) were to manage the funding for supports to the extent proposed.

                     Paragraphs 3.1 to 3.6 summarise subsection 33(2) and sections 42, 43 and 44 of the Act. Division 3 of Part 2 of Chapter 3 of the Act provides further details relating to managing the funding for supports under a participant's plan.

Unreasonable risk if the participant is a child or is represented by a nominee

    3.7 If the participant is a child, or is represented by a plan nominee, the CEO is to have regard to the following:

       (a) the capacity of the child's representative or the plan nominee to manage finances;

       (b) whether the child's representative or the