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provide for supports for the participant. A number of principles apply in relation to the preparation and management of a participant's plan, which are set out in section 31 of the Act.
    2.2 This Instrument assists the CEO to determine who becomes a participant. Separate rules determine reasonable and necessary supports that a person may get, including support in the nature of early intervention.
    2.3 A person becomes a participant in the NDIS on the day the CEO of the Agency decides they meet the access criteria.
    2.4 A person meets the access criteria if the CEO is satisfied that they meet each of the following, as they apply in the area in which the person resides:
       (a) the age requirements (see Part 3);
       (b) the residence requirements (see Part 4);
       (c) either the disability requirements or the early intervention requirements (see Parts 5 and 6).
    2.5 Generally speaking:
       (a) a person will meet the disability requirements if they have a disability that is attributable to an impairment that is permanent or likely to be permanent and that results in substantially reduced functional capacity;
       (b) alternatively, a person can access the NDIS through the early intervention requirements without having substantially reduced functional capacity. Instead, the early intervention requirements consider the likely trajectory and impact of a person's impairment over time and the potential benefits of early intervention on the impact of the impairment on the person's functional capacity. The CEO may consider a range of evidence in deciding the potential benefit of early intervention on a person's impairment. The CEO may consider existing evidence or information from an individual or their family or carer. Where a young child has an impairment resulting in developmental delay, or resulting from a condition on a list published by the CEO for which the benefits of early intervention have already been established, no further evidence of the benefit of early intervention supports to the child is required to meet the early intervention requirements. A young child or other person can still meet the early intervention requirements without having one of these conditions, provided there is evidence that the requirements are satisfied.
    2.6 Part 7 deals with the use of assessment tools in assessing whether a person meets the disability requirements or the early intervention requirements.
    2.7 Part 8 deals with other matters, including interpretation of this Instrument.
                  The above summarises aspects of Part 1 of Chapter 3 of the Act.

What happens once a person has become a participant
    2.8 Once a person has become a participant, their plans will be prepared in accordance with the Act and relevant rules made under section 32A of the Act.  The participant's supports, if any, will be