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NATIONAL DISABILITY INSURANCE SCHEME ACT 2013 - SECT 29

When a person ceases to be a participant

  (1)   A person ceases to be a participant in the National Disability Insurance Scheme when:

  (a)   the person dies; or

  (b)   the person enters a residential care service on a permanent basis, or starts being provided with home care on a permanent basis, and this first occurs only after the person turns 65 years of age; or

  (c)   the person's status as a participant is revoked under subsection   30(1) or (5), paragraph   30A(1)(c) or subsection   30A(7); or

  (d)   the person notifies the CEO in writing that he or she no longer wishes to be a participant.

Note:   Residential care service and home care have the same meanings as in the Aged Care Act 1997 .

  (2)   A person is not entitled to be paid NDIS amounts so far as the amounts relate to supports that are acquired or provided after the person ceases to be a participant.

  (3)   The National Disability Insurance Scheme rules may specify circumstances in which specified supports are taken for the purposes of subsection   (2) to be, or not to be, acquired or provided after the person ceases to be a participant.



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