{"id":"F2025L00763","name":"Disability Services and Inclusion (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Rules 2025","slug":"disability-services-and-inclusion-consequential-amendments-and-transitional-provisions-rules-2025","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":442876,"registerId":"F2025L00763-fast-fetch-1775957798796","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-12","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Disability Services and Inclusion (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Rules 2025","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\nmeta-keywords: \"[SEC=OFFICIAL:Sensitive]\"\n---\n\n![Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia](image.001.jpeg)\n\n \n\nDisability Services and Inclusion (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Rules 2025\n\nI, Tanya Plibersek, Minister for Social Services, make the following rules.\n\nDated 24.06.2025 \n\nTanya Plibersek\n\nMinister for Social Services\n\n \n\nContents\n\nPart 1—Preliminary\n\n1  Name\n\n2  Commencement\n\n3  Authority\n\n4  Interpretation\n\nPart 2—Transitional Rules for Certificates of Compliance under the DSI Act\n\n5 Certificates of Compliance issued under DS Act have effect under the DSI Act\n\n \n\n \n\nPart 1—Preliminary\n\n1  Name\n\n  This instrument is the Disability Services and Inclusion (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Rules 2025.\n\n2  Commencement\n\n  This instrument commences on the day after the instrument is registered.\n\n3  Authority\n\n  This instrument is made under item 10 of Schedule 3 of the Disability Services (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Act 2023.\n\n4  Interpretation\n\n  In this instrument:\n\nAct means the Disability Services and Inclusion (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Act 2023.\n\nAdvocacy service has the same meaning in the DS Act.\n\nDS Act means the Disability Services Act 1986.\n\nDSI Act means the Disability Services and Inclusion Act 2023.\n\nEmployment service has the same meaning in the DS Act.\n\nRegulated activity has the same meaning in the DSI Act.\n\nRehabilitation program has the same meaning in the DS Act.\n\nTransition Period means the period starting on 1 July 2025 and ending 31 December 2025.\n\n\n\n\nPart 2—Transitional Rules for Certificates of Compliance under the DSI Act\n\n5 Certificates of Compliance issued under DS Act have effect under the DSI Act \n\n (1) For subparagraph 9(1)(a)(i) of the DSI Act, a person is taken to hold a certificate of compliance for the regulated activity during the transition period if:\n\n (a) the person holds a certificate of compliance given under section 6D, 6DA or 6E of the DS Act that is in force on 30 June 2025; and\n\n (b) that certificate under the DS Act is for an:\n\n1.                   employment service; or\n2.                advocacy service; or\n3.              rehabilitation program\n\n\n  that is a regulated activity in relation to a payment arrangement or grant under section 13 of the DSI Act.\n\n (2) A certificate of compliance given under section 6D, 6DA or 6E of the DS Act is in force on 30 June 2025 if:\n\n (a) it has not been revoked by that date; and\n\n (b) the certification body which gave the certificate has not lost its accreditation.\n\nNote 1: The note to sub-item 4(1) of Schedule 3 of the Act provides that the grants of financial assistance made under Part II of the DS Act before, on or after 1 January 2024 can continue to be administered on and after that day.\n\nNote 2: The note to sub-item 8(1) of Schedule 3 of the Act provides that measures or arrangements made under Part III of the DS Act as in force before 1 January 2024 continues to have effect on and after that day.\n\nNote 3: Sub-item 6(2) of Schedule 3 of the Act provides that an accreditation in force under Part IA of the DS Act immediately before 1 January 2024 continues in force after that day in relation to the continued application of Parts II and III of that Act on and after that day.\n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This instrument does not alter the substantive scope of the DSI Act. It provides a time-limited transitional rule treating specified existing DS Act certificates as valid under the DSI Act for certain regulated activities linked to payment arrangements or grants, subject to being in force on 30 June 2025 and the certification body remaining accredited. The effect is continuity during the transition period rather than a permanent expansion or contraction of coverage."},"complexity_factors":["Cross-references to two statutes (DS Act and DSI Act) and specific provisions (subparagraph 9(1)(a)(i); sections 6D, 6DA, 6E)","Temporal conditions: requirement that certificates be in force on 30 June 2025 and operation only during the defined Transition Period (1 July–31 Dec 2025)","Conditionality on accreditation status of the certification body (must not have lost accreditation)","Narrow subject-matter scope limited to certificates of compliance for three service types (employment service, advocacy service, rehabilitation program)","Interaction with payment arrangements or grants under section 13 of the DSI Act (links certification to funding eligibility)","Statutory authority sourced to an item in Schedule 3 of another Act (requires users to trace enabling provision)","Concise instrument length reduces interpretive layers, but reliance on external notes (Schedule 3 notes) may require additional reading"],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument preserves existing certificates issued under the Disability Services Act 1986 so they count as certificates under the Disability Services and Inclusion Act 2023 during a fixed transition period (1 July–31 December 2025) for employment services, advocacy services and rehabilitation programs tied to payment arrangements or grants. It affects service providers holding those certificates and the certification bodies that accredited them, and matters because it maintains eligibility for payments/grants without immediate re‑certification while the new Act takes effect."},"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"A positive credit balance is required for all requests, including BYOK, so fallback providers remain available. Add credits at https://vercel.com/d?to=%2F%5Bteam%5D%2F%7E%2Fai%3Fmodal%3Dtop-up to continue.","source":"analysis-cron"},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The legislation performs exactly the narrow transitional function indicated by its title. It does not expand beyond the specific task of preserving certificate validity during the transition period between the old and new disability services frameworks."},"complexity_factors":["Very short instrument (only 5 substantive provisions)","Minimal defined terms (only 7 definitions in section 4)","Single operational mechanism (deeming old certificates valid under new Act)","No nested exceptions or complex conditional logic","Straightforward temporal limitation (fixed 6-month transition period)","Clear cross-references to parent Act and predecessor legislation"],"plain_english_summary":"These rules preserve validity of compliance certificates issued under the Disability Services Act 1986 so they continue to count under the new Disability Services and Inclusion Act 2023 for a limited transition (1 July–31 December 2025). That lets accredited certification bodies, disability service providers, and the people who rely on those services avoid legal disruption while providers move into the new regulatory framework."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/disability-services-and-inclusion-consequential-amendments-and-transitional-provisions-rules-2025","history":"/api/acts/disability-services-and-inclusion-consequential-amendments-and-transitional-provisions-rules-2025/history","analysis":"/api/acts/disability-services-and-inclusion-consequential-amendments-and-transitional-provisions-rules-2025/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/disability-services-and-inclusion-consequential-amendments-and-transitional-provisions-rules-2025/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/disability-services-and-inclusion-consequential-amendments-and-transitional-provisions-rules-2025/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/disability-services-and-inclusion-consequential-amendments-and-transitional-provisions-rules-2025/documents"}}