Disability Services Regulation 2017
sec.5Prescribed entities for NDIS worker screening application— Act , s 65
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sec.5 Prescribed entities for NDIS worker screening application— Act , s 65
For section 65 (a) (iii) of the Act , the following entities are prescribed— the Agency; the NDIS commission; a service provider that receives Commonwealth funding to provide any of the following services or supports to people with disability— a service known as a local area coordination service; a support provided to an NDIS participant known as an early intervention support for early childhood; a service or support provided under a program called the information linkages and capacity building program administered by the department of the Commonwealth responsible for administering the Social Security Act 1991 (Cwlth) ; an NDIS service provider that receives Commonwealth funding to provide a continuity of support service. A continuity of support service is a disability service provided by an entity to a person with disability if— the entity is an NDIS service provider; and the person is aged— if the person is an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person—50 years or more; or otherwise—65 years old; and an NDIS support or service that is of the same kind as the disability service is available to be provided to persons in the area in which the disability service is provided to the person; and the entity or another entity provided the disability service to the person before the NDIS support or service became available in the area. In this section— Agency see the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013 (Cwlth) , section 9 . Commonwealth funding means recurrent or one-off funds from a department of the Commonwealth. NDIS participant means a person who is a participant in the national disability insurance scheme under the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013 (Cwlth) . s 5 sub 2019 SL No. 125 s 5 ; 2021 SL No. 2 s 6 (sec.5-ssec.1) For section 65 (a) (iii) of the Act , the following entities are prescribed— the Agency; the NDIS commission; a service provider that receives Commonwealth funding to provide any of the following services or supports to people with disability— a service known as a local area coordination service; a support provided to an NDIS participant known as an early intervention support for early childhood; a service or support provided under a program called the information linkages and capacity building program administered by the department of the Commonwealth responsible for administering the Social Security Act 1991 (Cwlth) ; an NDIS service provider that receives Commonwealth funding to provide a continuity of support service. (sec.5-ssec.2) A continuity of support service is a disability service provided by an entity to a person with disability if— the entity is an NDIS service provider; and the person is aged— if the person is an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person—50 years or more; or otherwise—65 years old; and an NDIS support or service that is of the same kind as the disability service is available to be provided to persons in the area in which the disability service is provided to the person; and the entity or another entity provided the disability service to the person before the NDIS support or service became available in the area. (sec.5-ssec.3) In this section— Agency see the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013 (Cwlth) , section 9 . Commonwealth funding means recurrent or one-off funds from a department of the Commonwealth. NDIS participant means a person who is a participant in the national disability insurance scheme under the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013 (Cwlth) .