NDIS Rules section 13A: significant events and key personnel
Section 13A covers events that significantly affect compliance, a change that adversely affects access, an adverse change in financial capacity, a significant change in organisation or governance, and events bearing on the suitability of the provider or its key personnel. Unlike s 13, s 13A(4) gives no "as soon as practicable": notice is due by the earlier of becoming aware the event or change will occur and its occurring, so the date shown is that earlier date. A change of ownership has its own rule, s 13A(3).
Rules s 13A(4)
NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission- to
- NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission
- by when
- by the earlier of becoming aware it will occur and its occurring
- what it is
- a notice
- line key
- ndis13a for the Lodged column of a list
- raised by
- Key personnel or responsible person change, Suitability matter (provider or responsible person), Financial or prudential change and Something else
The provider notifies the Commissioner in the approved form of: an event that significantly affects its ability to comply with its conditions; a change that adversely affects access by people with disability to its registered supports; an adverse change in financial capacity; a significant change in organisation or governance; and events bearing on its own or its key personnel's suitability (the matters in ss 9(2)(c) to (h) and 10(2)(b) to (g)). Notice of a governance change arising from a change in ownership of the provider or of its business is due by the earlier of becoming aware it will occur and any step that is a precondition to effecting it (s 13A(3), from 1 July 2026); other notices by the earlier of awareness and occurrence.
Held text: NDIS Provider Registration Rules, Comp. No. 6, compilation in force from 1 Jul 2026; NDIS Act Part 3A, Comp. No. 27.
what an auditor asks to see Notification records for governance, financial and suitability events; Transaction timetable for any sale or restructure showing the Commission notice before the first precondition step; Board papers identifying events requiring notice
where it usually falls short Commission told of a sale only after completion; Key personnel charges or insolvency events not notified
The Commission's own page: Notify us of changes or events.
How the clock is counted: from the date (and, for 24 hours, the time) the provider became aware, as the clause says. Business days are days that are not a Saturday, a Sunday or a public holiday in the place concerned (the Acts Interpretation Act definition the Rules rely on): the checker applies the public holidays of the state or territory you give, from each government's own list, and says so on the line; local and part-day holidays are not modelled, and a date past the end of the list is marked indicative. A duty with no fixed period (as soon as practicable) shows its trigger date and never a due date. A period that has ended reads "the clause's period ended on" its date, with a place to record when it was lodged.
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