Section 53 — National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013: Power to obtain information from participants and prospective participants to ensure the integrity of the National Disability Insurance Scheme

(1) If the CEO has reasonable grounds to believe that a participant or a prospective participant has information, or has custody or control of a document, that may be relevant to one or more of the matters mentioned in subsection (2), the CEO may require the participant or prospective participant to give the information, or produce the document, to the Agency. (2) The matters are as follows: (a) the monitoring of supports funded for, or provided to, a participant; (b) whether NDIS amounts paid to the participant or to another person have been spent in accordance with the participant’s plan; (c) determining whether the participant was not entitled to be paid NDIS amounts because of the misleading statements or fraud of any person; (d) whether the participant or other person has complied with section 46; (e) whether the participant or prospective participant receives: (i) supports or funding through a statutory compensation scheme or a statutory care or support scheme; or (ii) any other disability or early intervention supports.