National Disability Insurance Scheme (Quality Indicators for NDIS Practice Standards) Amendment Guidelines 2024

I, Michael Phelan, Acting Commissioner of the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission, make the following guidelines.

Dated   2 July 2024

Michael Phelan

Acting Commissioner of the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

National Disability Insurance Scheme (Quality Indicators for NDIS Practice Standards) Guidelines 2018

1  Name

  This instrument is the National Disability Insurance Scheme (Quality Indicators for NDIS Practice Standards) Amendment Guidelines 2024.

2  Commencement

  This instrument commences on the day after this instrument is registered.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under subsection 181D(2) of the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

National Disability Insurance Scheme (Quality Indicators for NDIS Practice Standards) Guidelines 2018

1  Section 4 (definition of high intensity support skills descriptor)

Repeal the definition (including the note), substitute:

  high intensity support skills descriptor, for an activity, means the descriptor for the activity described in the NDIS Practice Standards: High intensity support skills descriptors, November 2022 (Version 3), published by the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission, as existing on 2 July 2024.

Note:  The NDIS Practice Standards: High intensity support skills descriptors could in 2024 be viewed on the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission website (https://www.ndiscommission.gov.au).