Direct answer: the cut-off for unregistered providers already delivering Supported Independent Living was an application made before 1 October 2026, and it has passed. If yours went in before then, you keep delivering SIL while the NDIS Commission assesses it. If it did not, you need to stop delivering SIL, and you can claim only for services up to 30 September 2026. New providers can still apply, and registered providers renew with a self-assessment. Find your row below. Applying or renewing? Your 28 answers, drafted from your intake, A$490 fixed. You review, edit and lodge them.
Updated 1 October 2026, first published 31 July 2026. Every rule on this page links to the NDIS Commission or NDIA page it comes from, read on 30 September 2026. If anything below is out of date or wrong, tell us at hello@silready.com and we will correct it and say we did.
Find the row that describes you. Each one links to the official page it comes from and says what to do next.
| If you are | What applies now |
|---|---|
| Unregistered, delivering SIL before 1 July 2026, and you lodged before 1 October 2026 | You keep delivering SIL while the Commission assesses your application, and you can keep claiming under 0138 in the meantime. You receive a scope of audit and complete a certification audit with an approved quality auditor, and it includes the new SIL Practice Standards. Official: Commission pathway · NDIA claiming rules Next: the audit. What the audit involves · Audit-Ready Pack waiting list |
| Delivering SIL, unregistered, and you did not lodge before 1 October 2026 | You need to stop delivering SIL and follow the Commission's steps for stopping a service. Delivering SIL without registration may breach the NDIS Act. Plan managers should reject SIL invoices from providers that are neither registered nor have applied, and you can claim only for services up to 30 September 2026. Official: Commission SIL page · Stopping the services you provide · NDIA claiming rules Next: once you have stopped, the next row applies. More on this path |
| Not delivering SIL yet: a new provider, or an unregistered provider that has stopped | You apply for registration group 0138. The Commission's pathway for this gives no closing date. You receive a scope of audit and complete a certification audit that includes the SIL Practice Standards, and you cannot deliver SIL until the Commission has decided your application. Official: Commission pathway · Apply for registration Next: the self-assessment, written around how you will deliver the service. Start the intake · More for new providers |
| Registered, with your expiry date less than 6 months away | Renewal has the same steps as your first application, including a self-assessment against the applicable NDIS Practice Standards. Start before your expiry date and your registration stays valid until the Commission decides. Official: Renew your registration Next: the self-assessment. The same 28 answers, drafted for your renewal · More on renewals |
| Registered with group 0115 and delivering SIL before 1 July 2026 | You keep delivering SIL. If you chose to continue, your registration was varied to include 0138. You must comply with the new SIL Practice Standards to remain registered, and your next audit, mid-term or renewal, covers them. Official: Commission pathway Next: the audit, and at renewal the row above applies. Audit-Ready Pack waiting list |
| Registered, but not for SIL, and planning to add it | You apply for a variation of registration. You may receive a scope of audit, and an approved quality auditor determines whether an out-of-cycle certification audit is needed; after 1 July 2026 it includes the SIL Practice Standards. If the variation is not approved, you cannot deliver SIL. Official: Commission pathway · Apply for a variation Next: the Commission's variation steps, linked above. |
| A plan manager or support coordinator | From 1 October 2026, plan managers should reject invoices from SIL providers that are neither registered nor have applied to register. Official: NDIA claiming rules Next: What to check on each SIL invoice |
Whether you are applying for the first time or renewing, the self-assessment is the part you have to write. Your 28 answers are drafted from a short written intake: for a renewal, around how your service runs today; for a new provider, around how you will deliver it. A$490 fixed, your draft within 2 business days of payment, and you pay last.
The Commission says the renewal process has the same steps as your initial application, including a self-assessment against the applicable NDIS Practice Standards and questions about your suitability. For a SIL provider, the standards that apply now include the SIL module.
You do not have to use the same approved quality auditor as last time. The renewal page also points you to the Commission's advice on using consultants, advice services or purchased policies, which we set out, with the links, in getting help with your self-assessment. Source: Renew your registration.
Becoming an NDIS provider for SIL starts with an application for registration group 0138, and you can apply now. The Commission's pathway for providers not yet delivering SIL gives no closing date, and it is clear about the limit: "Providers cannot deliver supported independent living (SIL) supports until we've made a decision on the application for registration." (source)
Your application includes a self-assessment against the applicable NDIS Practice Standards (source). You then receive a scope of audit and complete a certification audit with an approved quality auditor. Your start date depends on that decision, so plan around it.
The self-assessment asks how your service does each thing. Before you are operating, the honest answer is how you will do it: your houses, your staffing, your supervision, what happens when something goes wrong. Tell us that in the intake and your 28 answers are written that way.
The Commission's answer is direct. A provider delivering SIL that did not apply needs to stop providing SIL supports, and must follow the notification and participant transition steps on its Stopping the services you provide page. Delivering SIL without registration on or after 1 July 2026 may breach the NDIS Act, with a maximum penalty of 2 years' imprisonment, a fine of 120 penalty units, or both (source).
The NDIA's claiming rules say the same thing from the payment side: unregistered SIL providers that did not apply by 1 October 2026 can only claim for services up to 30 September 2026 (source).
The Commission's pages word the cut-off two ways: an application "before 1 October 2026" on the pathway page, and "by 1 October 2026" on the same page and on its SIL page. If your application went in on 1 October 2026, ask the NDIS Commission where you stand (contact the Commission).
Once you are not delivering SIL, the new-provider path applies to you. You can apply, with the same limit: no SIL until the Commission has decided your application.
The NDIA's rule for plan managers is short: from 1 October 2026, plan managers should reject invoices from SIL providers who are not registered and have not applied to register. For services delivered after 1 July 2026, a plan manager may pay a SIL invoice where the provider is registered under 0138, or is an unregistered provider that was delivering SIL before 1 July 2026 and has lodged an application under 0138. Unregistered SIL providers that did not apply by 1 October 2026 can claim only for services up to 30 September 2026, so check the service dates on a late invoice (source).
"Has lodged an application" is a fact you take from the provider. Ask for it in writing, keep it, and date it.
Support coordinators: the NDIA's notice is addressed to providers and plan managers. The same two questions tell you whether a participant's SIL provider can be paid, and the Commission's register answers the first one.
For anyone still searching for the SIL registration deadline, this is what the two dates did.
| Date | What it did |
|---|---|
| 1 July 2026 | Mandatory registration for SIL commenced. Registration group 0138, Assistance with supported independent living, applies to SIL supports delivered from that date, and the new SIL Practice Standards started to apply. Sources: NDIA · Commission |
| 1 October 2026 | The cut-off for unregistered providers already delivering SIL. The Commission's pathway asked for a valid application "before 1 October 2026", and the same page also says "by", so 30 September was the last safe day. An application in by then let the provider keep delivering SIL while it is assessed. It asked for a lodged application, not a finished registration. Source: Commission pathway |
Pages headlined with a 1 July deadline were describing when registration became mandatory. The lodgement cut-off for providers already delivering SIL was the October date, and it has now passed.
Yes. The cut-off for unregistered providers already delivering SIL was an application made before 1 October 2026, and it has passed. What applies now depends on your path: lodged in time, missed it, new, renewing, or already registered. Find your row.
Yes, as a provider not currently delivering SIL. The Commission's pathway for new providers gives no closing date, and you cannot deliver SIL until the Commission has decided your application.
Only providers that were delivering SIL before 1 July 2026 and applied before 1 October 2026. They keep delivering SIL while the Commission assesses the application. A provider delivering SIL that did not apply needs to stop providing SIL supports and follow the Commission's steps for stopping a service. From 1 October 2026, plan managers should reject SIL invoices from providers that are neither registered nor have applied.
Official: Commission pathway · Commission SIL page · NDIA claiming rules
Yes. The Commission's renewal has the same steps as your initial application, including a self-assessment against the applicable NDIS Practice Standards. You can start any time in the 6 months before your registration expires.
For services delivered after 1 July 2026, the NDIA allows payment where the provider is registered under 0138, or is an unregistered provider that was delivering SIL before 1 July 2026 and has lodged an application under 0138. Providers that have applied can keep claiming under 0138 while the application is assessed.
Yes. Registration for SIL has been mandatory since 1 July 2026, under registration group 0138, Assistance with supported independent living, and the new SIL Practice Standards apply. Providers that were delivering SIL before 1 July 2026 and applied before 1 October 2026 keep delivering while their application is assessed. A new provider cannot deliver SIL until the Commission has decided its application.
Official: NDIA · Commission SIL page · pathway for providers already delivering SIL · pathway for new providers
Every rule on this page comes from one of these official pages, read on 30 September 2026.
SIL Ready sells self-assessment documentation, so we have a commercial interest in providers preparing for registration. That is a reason to check this page against the official sources above rather than take it on trust. This page is general information, not legal advice.