NDIS Provider Registration Rules
Conditions of registration (Rules Part 4, Act ss 73F to 73J)
s13BA Change of ownership audit within 3 months (from 1 July 2026)
Clause and reference Rules s 13BA of the NDIS (Provider Registration and Practice Standards) Rules 2018 · our reference s13BA
The requirement
Where a certification-assessed provider goes through a major change to its organisation or governance because ownership changes for the provider, or for a business it runs, and in the next three months it has no mid-term audit underway and its registration does not end, it goes through a certification audit that starts within 3 months of the change (or later if the Commissioner allows), against the Part 3 Core module standards and any standard that had a corrective action plan; the auditor reports to the Commissioner within 28 days of finishing it. This applies to changes of ownership from 1 July 2026.
Our wording of the requirement: our statement of what the clause asks, not the instrument verbatim. Source: NDIS Provider Registration Rules on the compliance desk.
The evidence to bring
- Change of ownership audit engagement starting within 3 months of completion
- Audit report and auditor's submission to the Commission within 28 days
What assessors commonly find
- Acquirer assumes the vendor's audit cycle continues unchanged
- Audit not scheduled after a share sale
What evidence do I need?
For s13BA Change of ownership audit within 3 months (from 1 July, the evidence to bring is: Change of ownership audit engagement starting within 3 months of completion; Audit report and auditor's submission to the Commission within 28 days. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me change of ownership audit engagement starting within 3 months of completion, 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.
If this change has to be notified
A change to your contact details or your scale, a significant event or a change of ownership starts a clock. Describe the change once and the notifiable change checker works out who to notify and by when, and shows the rules it rests on.
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