National Disability Insurance Scheme(Getting the NDIS Back on Track No. 1) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Transitional Amendment Rules 2025 (Cth)

National Disability Insurance Scheme (Getting the NDIS Back on Track No. 1) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Transitional Amendment Rules 2025

I, Mark Butler, Minister for Disability and the National Disability Insurance Scheme, make the following Rules.

Dated 2 October 2025

Mark Butler

Minister for Disability and the National Disability Insurance Scheme

Contents

1. 1

   Name........................................................................................................................................ 1

2. 2

   Commencement....................................................................................................................... 1

3. 3

   Authority.................................................................................................................................. 1

4. 4

   Schedules................................................................................................................................. 1

Schedule 1—Amendments2

National Disability Insurance Scheme (Getting the NDIS Back on Track No. 1) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Transitional Rules 20242

1Name

This instrument is the National Disability Insurance Scheme(Getting the NDIS Back on Track No. 1) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Transitional Amendment Rules 2025.

2Commencement

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

3Authority

This instrument is made under item 138 of Schedule 1 to the National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Getting the NDIS Back on Track No. 1) Act 2024.

4Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 (Getting the NDIS Back on Track No. 1) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Transitional Rules 2024

1After subsection 6(1)

Insert:

1. (1A)

   Section 45A of the NDIS Act, as in force on and after the commencement of this subsection, does not apply in relation to a payment:

   (a) to:

   (i) a participant who self-manages the funding for supports under their plan

   (ii) a plan nominee of a participant who manages funding for supports under that participant’s plan, or

   (iii) a person mentioned in s 74(1) of the NDIS Act who manages funding for supports under a plan for a participant who is a child

   (b) which is made in respect of the acquisition of a private vehicle transport support under a new framework plan, and

   (c) to the extent the payment is equal to or less than $132.58 in respect of each fortnightly period.

2

Subsection 6(2)

Before “of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (Getting the NDIS Back on Track No.1) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Transitional Rules 2024