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Contents

National Disability Insurance Scheme (Facilitating the Preparation of Participants' Plans – Tasmania) Rules 2016

Part 1     What these rules are about

Part 2     Preparation of plans for residents of Tasmania

Part 3     Other matters
  Citation
  Interpretation

Part 1 What these rules are about

    1.1 Each participant in the NDIS will have a plan, prepared by and with the participant and approved by the CEO of the Agency. Among other things, a participant's plan sets out the supports that will be funded for the participant.

    1.2 To enable an orderly transition, participants will be phased into the NDIS. There are two steps involved in accessing supports under the NDIS. The first is to become a participant: the participant makes an access request and the CEO decides that they meet the access criteria. The second is for the participant to have a plan approved by the CEO of the Agency. These Rules relate to the second step, and the order in which the CEO will commence the facilitation of the preparation of plans for different groups, known as classes, of participants.

    1.3 These Rules explain how participants in Tasmania will be phased into the NDIS. The Rules set out the process for working out when the CEO must commence facilitating the preparation of the plan of a participant in Tasmania.

    1.4 The phasing schedule is intended to give effect to agreements that have been reached between the Government of the Commonwealth and the Government of Tasmania.

    1.5 The Act sets out a number of objects and principles for the NDIS, to which these Rules give effect. In giving effect to the objects, regard is to be had to the progressive implementation of the NDIS and the need to ensure the financial sustainability of the NDIS.

Part 2 Preparation of plans for residents of Tasmania

    2.1 Once a person becomes a participant, the CEO can commence facilitating the preparation of a plan for the person. The process for commencing the facilitation of the preparation of plans for participants in Tasmania is detailed below.

    2.2 The table in paragraph 2.6 sets out seven classes of Tasmanian participants and sets out the circumstances in which the CEO is to commence the facilitation of those participants' plans. The CEO will deal with each class sequentially; facilitation for a class will be commenced once the CEO has decided that the Agency has the capacity to do so, in light of the number of participants in previous classes whose plans have been dealt with, and the number yet to be dealt with.

    2.3 The CEO's decisions to commence facilitating the preparation of plans for classes