National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment Act 2016

No. 51, 2016

An Act to amend the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013, and for related purposes

National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment Act 2016

No. 51, 2016

An Act to amend the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013, and for related purposes

[Assented to 5 May 2016]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment Act 2016.

2 Commencement

(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1. Sections 1 to 3 and anything in this Act not elsewhere covered by this table	The day this Act receives the Royal Assent.	5 May 2016
2. Schedule 1	1 July 2016.	1 July 2016

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.

(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.

3 Schedules

Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013

1 Section 126

Omit “8”, substitute “up to 11”.

2 Subsection 138(1)

Omit “5”, substitute “a majority of the”.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 16 March 2016

Senate on 3 May 2016]

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