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NATIONAL DISABILITY INSURANCE SCHEME ACT 2013 - SECT 29 When a person ceases to be a participant

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 section   30; 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 reasonable and necessary supports that would otherwise have been funded in respect of a period after he or she ceased to be a participant.