Allied Health NDIS Audit Checklist: worksheet
NDIS Worker Screening Rules. Edition held: NDIS (Practice Standards - Worker Screening) Rules 2018, Compilation No. 4 (F2021C00788), in force 31 July 2021; checked current on 6 October 2026 (Federal Register: latest version on 6 October 2026).
Source: https://compliance.theartofservice.com/frameworks/australia-ndis-worker-screening-rules-2018. Page: https://allied-health-ndis-audit-checklist.theartofservice.com/rules/ndis-worker-screening-rules/s14-use-the-exceptions-only-on-their-conditions-and-never/
| Ref | Requirement (our statement of the clause) | Evidence an auditor or the regulator asks for | Common gap to check | Held (yes, partly, no, not applicable) | Where it is kept | Owner | Last reviewed | Next review |
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| s 14 and s 14A | A person without a clearance may fill a risk assessed role only under an exception: (a) the person is in the process of obtaining a clearance, is appropriately supervised by a cleared person, the provider is implementing its s 12 risk management plan, and the law of the jurisdiction allows work while an application is pending; (b) the provider is complying with the Part 4 transitional arrangements and the person has no interim bar, exclusion, suspension or cancelled clearance; or (c) the person is a secondary school student on formal work experience directly supervised by a cleared worker (s 14(1)); individual providers have the equivalent exceptions (s 14(2)). Under s 14A the pending-application exception does not apply where the jurisdiction's law forbids working while an application is undecided and the person has no acceptable check for that jurisdiction. | Exception register for each person working without a clearance: exception relied on, start and end dates, supervising cleared worker; Jurisdiction check recording whether the relevant State or Territory law permits work while an application is pending; Work experience placement agreement with the school and the supervisor's clearance | Pending applicants rostered in a jurisdiction whose law applies no card, no start (Queensland, for example); Supervision nominal only (supervisor on another site); Exception relied on after the application was withdrawn, closed or refused | ☐ yes ☐ partly ☐ no ☐ n/a |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.