NDIS Practice Standards
Module 5: Specialist disability accommodation
m5-6.2 SDA enrolment: ongoing compliance with SDA Conditions Rules, building and tenancy laws
Clause and reference m5-6.2, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
The provider has mechanisms to keep complying over time with the SDA Conditions Rules and all relevant laws and standards, including building standards and tenancy laws that apply to SDA dwellings.
Our wording of the requirement: our statement of what the clause asks, not the instrument verbatim. Source: NDIS Practice Standards on the compliance desk.
The evidence to bring
- Compliance calendar covering building certification, fire safety statements and tenancy obligations per dwelling
- Current annual fire safety statements or equivalent certificates
- Legal or regulatory update log showing changes assessed against the dwellings
What assessors commonly find
- Fire safety certification lapsed for a dwelling
- No process to check dwellings after renovations
What evidence do I need?
For m5-6.2 SDA enrolment: ongoing compliance with SDA Conditions Rules, building, the evidence to bring is: Compliance calendar covering building certification, fire safety statements and tenancy obligations per dwelling. It sits under Module 5: Specialist disability accommodation and our reference for it is m5-6.2. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me compliance calendar covering building certification, fire safety statements and tenancy obligations per dwelling, and tell me who owns it and when it was last reviewed.
That is the question a quality assessor opens with for this requirement. Have the record on the desk and the date it was last reviewed to hand.
Read your own evidence against this clause
Paste your policy or evidence pack and the reading marks, line by line, whether a phrase from this requirement appears and quotes your own words when it does. It is a reading of your text, not a compliance result; a quality assessor decides whether a requirement is met. Read your pack, free See the paid reading