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DISABILITY SERVICES ACT 2006 - SECT 45 Meaning of NDIS disability work and risk-assessed NDIS work

DISABILITY SERVICES ACT 2006 - SECT 45

Meaning of NDIS disability work and risk-assessed NDIS work

45 Meaning of NDIS disability work and risk-assessed NDIS work

(1)
"NDIS disability work" is work that includes the delivery of NDIS supports or services to a person with disability.
(2)
"Risk-assessed NDIS work" is NDIS disability work carried out in a role for which the normal duties—
(a) include the direct delivery of specified NDIS supports or services to a person with disability; or
(b) are likely to require more than incidental contact with a person with disability.
(3) For subsection (2) (b) , the normal duties of a person’s role are likely to require more than incidental contact with a person with disability if the duties include—
(a) physically touching a person with disability; or
(b) building a rapport with a person with disability as an integral and ordinary part of the performance of the duties; or
(c) duties that, under the NDIS (Worker Screening) Practice Standards , are defined to be, or otherwise described as, duties that require more than incidental contact with a person with disability.
(4) In this section—


"contact" includes—
(a) physical contact; and
(b) face-to-face contact; and
(c) oral, written and electronic communication.

"rapport" means a relationship or understanding that is more than merely polite and functional.


"specified NDIS supports or services" means NDIS supports or services that, under the NDIS (Worker Screening) Practice Standards , are—
(a) specified supports or specified services; or
(b) identified as supports or services that, if delivered directly to a person with disability, must be delivered by a person who holds an NDIS clearance or interstate NDIS clearance.