The National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013 (Cth) defines NDIS supports. These are supports that can be funded by the NDIS and are declared by the National Disability Insurance Scheme Rules to be NDIS supports [s 10].

The NDIS Rules may declare that a support is or is not appropriately an NDIS support [s 10(3) and (4)]. The rules also outline how a support that is declared not an NDIS support may replace an NDIS support where the cost of the support is the same or lower than the total cost of the NDIS support that it replaces and the support provides the same or a better outcome for the participant [s 10(6)].

Apart from any other supports that are declared not to be NDIS supports, s 10(9) sets out that the following are not NDIS supports:

For more information about NDIS supports, see the NDIS Guidelines – How NDIS supports work.