Act-Readiness Review
The Act commences in stages. Your documents don't know that yet.
The National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Act 2026 received Royal Assent on 20 August 2026. Parts of it are already in force. More commences on 1 October, 20 November and 1 December 2026, then into 2027 and 2028. This is a signed review of what each of those dates changes in the documents you actually have.
Most providers have heard about the Act. Very few have had someone read their own policy suite against it and say, in writing, which paragraphs are now wrong and which ones will be wrong in December.
We take the documents you have, read them against the commencement dates written into the Act, and hand back a signed review: what is already out of date, what goes out of date on a date we name, what you need to add, and what you can safely leave alone.
What it costs
$390 fixed
September price. $750 from 1 October 2026.
All prices ex-GST. Fully credited against any package or the retainer within 60 days.
Signed within one business day of a complete intake, usually within 24 hours.
- Your 24 hours run from the moment your intake is complete, every question answered and any documents in and checked.
- We review Mon–Fri 9:00–17:00 Melbourne time. If your 24 hours land outside that, we sign by the close of the next window instead, you'll see your exact signed-by time before you pay.
- If we miss it, 10% comes off your invoice.
- Capacity is 4 signed documents a day; when a day is full, the page shows the next one.
The dates this review works to
In force since 27 August 2026
NDIA monitoring and investigation powers, compliance and infringement notices and enforceable undertakings · new offences for knowingly giving false or misleading information (ss 59A, 59AB) and for obtaining payments that are not payable (ss 59AC, 59AD), and an offence for concealing or destroying a record the Act requires you to keep, but only where that is done to defraud or to obstruct an audit or investigation (s 59AE) · section 45B, requiring records relating to claims and the provision of supports to be kept for 7 years from the claim, but only records of a kind the rules prescribe, and no such rules have been made · a new definition of “NDIS provider” (s 10C), which now catches anyone receiving NDIS amounts other than as a participant, and lets the rules exclude classes of person · only a participant, their nominee or a child's representative may request an unscheduled plan reassessment. The kickback and inducement offence is NOT in this list: it commences 20 November 2026. Neither are the new whistleblower protections: 1 July 2027.
Commences 1 October 2026
Ministerial support determinations, budget resets for social and community participation and for capacity-building daily activities, applied as plans are reassessed or renewed, and plan suspension provisions.
Commences 1 December 2026
Claims must be made within 90 days of the support being provided, down from 2 years, with an exceptional-circumstances discretion. This is the one that changes how you bill, not just what you write down.
Commences 1 February 2027
Legislated plan end dates and renewals, with no carry-over of unspent funds, and new factors for reasonable and necessary supports.
Commences 1 January 2028
Changes to the permanence test and to eligibility where other services are available.
These are the commencement dates written into the Act itself. The same dates, in the same words, are on what’s changing , if one changes, both change the same day.
What you get
- A signed review of your documents against each commencement date, which paragraphs are wrong now, which go wrong on a date we name.
- A dated action list. Every item carries the date it has to be done by, taken from the Act rather than from us.
- The record-keeping question answered plainly. Section 45B is in force, but it only catches a record “of a kind prescribed by the National Disability Insurance Scheme rules”, and those rules have not been made, so today it catches nothing. We say that rather than selling you a deadline. We also tell you to keep your claim records anyway, because the seven years run from the claim, not from the rules.
- A claims-process check against the 90-day window before 1 December, while there is still time to change how you bill.
- [EVIDENCE, client] markers on anything that is evidence you must produce rather than text we can write.
What this is not
It is not legal advice, and it is not a prediction. We work from the Act as published and the Commission's website on the day we do the work, and we date it. Where a measure has been announced but the rules have not been made: the 2027 expansion of mandatory registration, the record kinds section 45B will catch, any claim-documentation threshold, we tell you it is not law yet rather than selling you a deadline.
Last verified: 8 September 2026. We re-check these dates monthly against the NDIS Commission, the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing, and the Federal Register of Legislation.