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National Disability Insurance Scheme (Children) Rules 2013

National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013 (the Act)
The Act establishes the National Disability Insurance Scheme (the NDIS).
People who are participants in the NDIS will be assisted to develop a personal, goal-based plan about how they will be provided with general supports and reasonable and necessary supports.
The NDIS will respect the interests of people with disability in exercising choice and control about matters that affect them.

National Disability Insurance Scheme (Children) Rules 2013
These Rules are made for the purposes of sections 74, 75 and 76 of the Act.
These Rules are about persons who are responsible for undertaking acts and making decisions on behalf of children (known as child's representatives).

These Rules commence on 1 July 2013.

The Hon Jenny Macklin MP
Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
Minister for Disability Reform

18 June 2013

Contents

National Disability Insurance Scheme (Children) Rules 2013
Part 1 What these Rules are about
Part 2 Outline of these Rules
Part 3 Who is the child's representative?
Part 4 Who has parental responsibility?
Children who have guardians
Children who do not have guardians
Part 5 When a child does not need a child's representative
Part 6 Duties of child's representatives
Part 7 Other matters
Citation
Interpretation

       Part 1 What these Rules are about
    1.1 These Rules are about persons who are responsible for undertaking acts and making decisions in relation to the Act on behalf of a child (referred to as child's representatives in these Rules).
    1.2 It is recognised (for example, in the Convention on the Rights of the Child) that a child's ability to undertake acts and make decisions on their own behalf increases as they develop. This principle is given effect by various provisions of the Act and these Rules that relate to child's representatives, including rules that require children to be consulted in relation to, and involved in, decision-making that affects them, and in the ability of the CEO to decide that a particular child does not need a child's representative (and to determine that the child will be able to undertake acts and make decisions on their own behalf).
    1.3 The existence of a child's representative for the purposes of the Act does not affect duties or responsibilities of other carers who are responsible for undertaking acts and making decisions on behalf of children.
    1.4 The Act sets out a number of principles for the NDIS. The following principles are particularly relevant to these Rules:
       (a) the role of families, carers and other significant persons in the lives of people with disability is to be acknowledged and respected;
       (b) where acts or things are done on behalf