When is NDIS registration mandatory?
Registration is mandatory for some supports: assistance with supported independent living must be provided by a registered provider, and digital platform services must be registered. A provider must not provide, or hold out that it can provide, a support that requires registration unless it is registered.
Answered from the held text of NDIS Provider Registration Rules s7-4. The clause behind it is cited below, and the requirement page carries the evidence an assessor asks for.
What the clause behind this answer says
s7-4 and (5) and s 32 Assistance with supported independent living must be registered (from 1 July 2026)
A person gives assistance with supported independent living when the participant needs another person constantly at hand, or immediately available, for all or a large part of each day; the assistance comes as a package that helps with or supervises daily tasks so the participant can live as autonomously as possible at home and reach the community; and that person runs the package and the supports under it. Such a person must be registered for that class (class 0138). Transitional rules (s 32(2) and (3)): a registered provider already delivering SIL keeps going until the Commissioner varies its registration, and in the meantime, if registered for item 15 (daily life tasks in a shared or group living arrangement), it complies with Module 5A; an unregistered provider already delivering SIL before 1 July 2026 may keep going only if it applies to register before 1 October 2026, until that application is decided, and otherwise must stop from 1 October 2026; a new entrant must be registered before starting.
Source: NDIS Provider Registration Rules on the compliance desk. Our statement of the clause, not the instrument verbatim.
s73B-7 and Rules s 7 Do not provide, or hold out as able to provide, a support that requires registration unless registered
A person must not deliver a support under a participant's plan where the NDIS rules require registration for it and the person is not registered (s 73B(2)), nor hold themselves out as able to deliver such a support (s 73B(3)). Rules s 7 requires registration for: specialist disability accommodation (s 7(1)); any class of supports where a regulated restrictive practice is needed now or on an interim or ongoing basis, or is likely to be (s 7(2)); specialist behaviour support that involves a behaviour support assessment or the writing of a behaviour support plan (s 7(3)); assistance with supported independent living (s 7(4) and (5)); and NDIS digital platform services (s 7(6)). Separately, supports to a participant whose funding is managed by the Agency may be given only by a registered provider (Act ss 32D(7) and 33(6)). Breaking this is a fault-based offence (up to 2 years in prison or 120 penalty units), a strict liability offence, and a civil penalty (up to 10,000 penalty units for a serious breach by an NDIS provider).
Source: NDIS Provider Registration Rules on the compliance desk. Our statement of the clause, not the instrument verbatim.
What evidence answers it
- Registration application or varied certificate adding the SIL class, with its date
- For existing unregistered SIL providers, proof of an application lodged before 1 October 2026
- Assessment of each participant's package against the s 7(5) test (constant support, package, provider manages it)
What assessors commonly find
- Providers repackaging SIL as separate hourly supports to avoid the definition
- No application lodged by 1 October 2026 but supports continuing
- Module 5A not implemented after the registration variation
The reviewer opens with
Show me registration application or varied certificate adding the SIL class, with its date, and tell me who owns it and when it was last reviewed.
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Where to go next
- s7-4 and (5) and s 32 Assistance with supported independent living must be registered (from 1 July 2026)
- s73B-7 and Rules s 7 Do not provide, or hold out as able to provide, a support that requires registration unless registered
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