Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NATIONAL DISABILITY INSURANCE SCHEME ACT 2013 - SECT 181E

    The Commissioner's core functions are as follows:

  (a)   to uphold the rights of, and promote the health, safety and wellbeing of, people with disability receiving supports or services, including those received under the National Disability Insurance Scheme;

  (b)   to develop a nationally consistent approach to managing quality and safeguards for people with disability receiving supports or services, including those received under the National Disability Insurance Scheme;

  (c)   to promote the provision of advice, information, education and training to NDIS providers and people with disability;

  (d)   to secure compliance with this Act through effective compliance and enforcement arrangements, including through the monitoring and investigation functions conferred on the Commissioner by Division   8 of Part   3A of Chapter   4;

  (e)   to promote continuous improvement amongst NDIS providers and the delivery of progressively higher standards of supports and services to people with disability;

  (f)   to develop and oversee the broad policy design for a nationally consistent framework relating to the screening of workers involved in the provision of supports and services to people with disability;

  (g)   to provide advice or recommendations to the Agency or the Board in relation to the performance of the Agency's functions;

  (h)   to engage in, promote and coordinate the sharing of information to achieve the objects of this Act;

  (i)   to provide NDIS market oversight, including:

  (i)   by monitoring changes in the NDIS market which may indicate emerging risk; and

  (ii)   by monitoring and mitigating the risks of unplanned service withdrawal.