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Allied Health NDIS Audit Checklist: worksheet

Authorised use without a plan: facilitate interim and comprehensive plans

NDIS Restrictive Practices and Behaviour Support Rules. Edition held: NDIS (Restrictive Practices and Behaviour Support) Rules 2018, Compilation No. 1 (F2020C01087), in force 1 December 2020; checked current on 6 October 2026 (Federal Register: latest version on 6 October 2026).

Standards library: https://compliance.theartofservice.com/frameworks/australia-ndis-restrictive-practices-and-behaviour-support-rules-2018. Page: https://allied-health-ndis-audit-checklist.theartofservice.com/rules/ndis-restrictive-practices-rules/s11-authorised-use-without-a-plan-facilitate-interim-and/

RefRequirement (our statement of the clause)Evidence an auditor or the regulator asks forCommon gap to checkHeld (yes, partly, no, not applicable)Where it is keptOwnerLast reviewedNext review
s 11Where a provider uses an authorised regulated restrictive practice that is not covered by a behaviour support plan and the use will or is likely to continue, it must take all reasonable steps to facilitate an interim behaviour support plan by a specialist behaviour support provider covering the practice within 1 month after the first use, and a comprehensive behaviour support plan within 6 months, and demonstrate this if required.
Source: https://www.legislation.gov.au/F2018L00632/latest/text
Referral to a specialist behaviour support provider dated soon after first use; Interim plan dated within 1 month and comprehensive plan within 6 months of first use; Record of follow-up where the practitioner was delayedNo referral made because the practice was authorised; Interim plan never obtained☐ yes
☐ partly
☐ no
☐ n/a

Completing this worksheet records what your practice holds and where. It does not make a practice compliant or ready for audit, and it is not legal advice.