National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Getting the NDIS Back on Track No. 1) Bill 2024

The majority voted in favour of amendments introduced by Victorian Senator Lidia Thorpe (Independent), which means they will now be included as part of the bill.

Amendment text

(1) Schedule 1, item 4, page 4 (after line 7), after the definition of funding period, insert:

Indigenous person means a person who is:

(a) a member of the Aboriginal race of Australia; or

(b) a descendant of an Indigenous inhabitant of the Torres Strait Islands.

(2) Schedule 1, page 55 (after line 12), after item 105, insert:

105A At the end of section 127

Add:

Appointment of Board members other than Chair — Indigenous Persons

(7) In appointing Board members other than the Chair, the Minister must also ensure that at least one Board member other than the Chair is an Indigenous person (whether or not the Chair is an Indigenous person).

105B After subsection 129(5) (before the note)

Insert:

(6) In appointing a person under subsection (2) to act as a Board member other than the Chair, the Minister must ensure that at least one Board member other than the Chair is an Indigenous person (whether or not the Chair is an Indigenous person).

(3) Schedule 1, page 63 (after line 27), after item 137, insert:

137A Appointment of Indigenous persons to the Board of the Agency

(1) Subsection 127(7) of the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013, as in force on and after the commencement of this Schedule, applies in relation to an appointment made under subsection 127(1) of that Act on or after that commencement.

(2) Subsection 129(6) of the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013, as in force on and after the commencement of this Schedule, applies in relation to an appointment made under subsection 129(2) of that Act on or after that commencement.