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National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Integrity and Safeguarding) Bill 2026
✦ Plain-English Summary
# National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Integrity and Safeguarding) Bill 2025
## What it does
This law tightens rules around the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) to crack down on fraud and misconduct by providers and participants. It creates new penalties, gives regulators stronger powers to investigate and ban bad actors, and makes it easier to remove dishonest operators from the scheme.
## Why it matters
The NDIS handles billions in taxpayer money supporting vulnerable Australians with disabilities. Tightening oversight helps protect both the scheme's sustainability and disabled people from exploitation or getting poor service from dodgy providers.
## Key details
- **New enforcement tools**: The bill introduces civil penalties (fines) for breaches, criminal offences for serious misconduct, and "banning orders" that can permanently bar individuals or organisations from the scheme.
- **Anti-promotion orders**: The regulator can stop disqualified people from operating under different business names or having others run schemes on their behalf—closing loopholes where banned operators resurface in disguise.
- **Staggered start dates**: Most powers kick in immediately, but electronic claims forms and plan variation changes don't start until 28 days after the law passes, giving the NDIS time to prepare systems.
Official Description
Amends the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013 to: expand the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission’s powers to detect, prevent and respond to breaches of obligations under the Act; provide participants wishing to withdraw from the National Disability Insurance Scheme with additional safeguards and communication options; enable the National Disability Insurance Agency to move to an entirely electronic claiming system for providers; and ensure that plan variations can include an increase or decrease of the total funding amounts.
Committee Referrals
Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee; Senate Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Bills
Audit History
Last updated on APH
10 Apr 2026
Last checked by Crossbench
today
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