Do I have to register as an NDIS provider?
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If none of those six describes your work, nothing in Part 2 of those Rules makes registration a condition of doing it. Hold each support you deliver up against the six passages below, one at a time.
Five kinds of support are named in section 7
The Rules open the list by saying what it is for.
NDIS providers of certain classes of supports under participants’ plans must be registered under section 73E of the Act to provide those classes of supports.
Provider Registration Rules, s 6(2) · open the instrument
Then they name them. Specialist disability accommodation comes first.
A person must be registered under section 73E of the Act to provide specialist disability accommodation under a participant’s plan.
Provider Registration Rules, s 7(1) · open the instrument
The second is about a practice, not a type of support. Where a regulated restrictive practice is used, or is likely to be, the support is caught whatever it is called.
A person must be registered under section 73E of the Act to provide a class of supports to a participant if, during the provision of the supports, there is, or is likely to be, an interim or ongoing need to use a regulated restrictive practice in relation to the participant.
Provider Registration Rules, s 7(2) · open the instrument
The third is narrower than its name. Behaviour support is caught when the work includes an assessment or a plan.
A person must be registered under section 73E of the Act to provide specialist behaviour support services to a participant if the person will, as part of the provision of the services: (a) undertake a behaviour support assessment (including a functional behavioural assessment) of the participant; or (b) develop a behaviour support plan for the participant.
Provider Registration Rules, s 7(3) · open the instrument
The last two each carry a definition of their own, and the one for supported independent living is set out further down.
A person must be registered under section 73E of the Act to provide assistance with supported independent living to a participant.
Provider Registration Rules, s 7(4) · open the instrument
A person must be registered under section 73E of the Act to provide an NDIS digital platform service to a participant.
Provider Registration Rules, s 7(6) · open the instrument
The sixth case turns on whose money it is
The same Part adds one more, in a note, and this one follows the funding rather than the support.
In addition to the circumstances provided for in this Part, a person must be registered under section 73E of the Act to provide supports to a participant who is in a participating jurisdiction and whose funding for supports is managed by the Agency (see subsection 33(6) of the Act).
Provider Registration Rules, s 6, note 2 · open the instrument
So for this one, what you deliver matters less than who pays for it. Ask each participant, or whoever holds their plan, who manages the funding for your supports.
Supported independent living has three conditions
The name a service goes by is not the test. The definition has three parts, joined by "and".
A person provides assistance with supported independent living to a participant if: (a) the participant requires constant, or immediately available, person‑to‑person supports at all times during a day, or for a substantial portion of a day; and (b) the assistance is provided, as needed, as a package of supports to assist the participant with, or to supervise, the tasks of daily life that enable the participant: (i) to live as autonomously as possible in the participant’s home; and (ii) to access the community; and (c) the assistance includes the management by the person of the package of supports, and of the supports provided in accordance with the package.
Provider Registration Rules, s 7(5) · open the instrument
Read condition (c) slowly. It asks whether the assistance includes managing the package of supports, which is a different question from whether you deliver some of them.
When none of the six describes your work
Section 7 is the list the Act asks the Rules to set out.
This Part is made for the purposes of subsection 73B(1) of the Act.
Provider Registration Rules, s 6(1) · open the instrument
Write down every support you deliver, who manages each participant's funding for it, and whether any of it involves a restrictive practice. Put that page beside the six passages above. Where a line matches, the passage beside it is the one to take to your registration consultant.
Check it yourself
Every passage quoted above was read from the copy named below and appears in it word for word. The address is where the instrument is published, so you can read the same document we read.
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (Provider Registration and Practice Standards) Rules 2018 (title page; Compilation No. 6, compilation date 1 July 2026)
- Compilation No. 6, compilation date 1 July 2026; includes amendments up to F2026L00802
- published at: https://www.legislation.gov.au/F2018L00631
- checked against the copy we keep
- first fetched from the publisher on 21 July 2026
- fetched again and matched word for word on 14 September 2026