Registration group

What is an NDIS registration group?

An NDIS registration group is a category of supports that a registered NDIS provider is approved to deliver, such as 0107 Daily personal activities or 0128 Therapeutic supports. Providers choose their groups when they apply for registration, the groups are listed on their certificate of registration, and each group decides the type of audit required. The same four-digit code appears in the middle of every NDIS support item number.

The NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission now describes them as "registration groups or classes of support" and publishes the full table, numbered 0101 to 0138, with the audit type each one needs. In practice the term is used in three places:

• Registration: a registered provider is registered for specific groups, not for "the NDIS" as a whole.
• Audits: each group is linked to a verification or certification audit and to particular NDIS Practice Standards modules.
• Pricing and claiming: the group code sits inside each item number, linking every support to the class of provider who can deliver it to NDIA-managed participants.

How registration groups work

The NDIS Commission sets three rules that matter most:

1. Each group has an audit type. Lower-risk groups, such as household tasks or therapeutic supports, need a verification audit. Higher-risk or more complex groups, such as daily personal activities, need a certification audit.
2. Certification wins. If your application includes groups linked to both audit types, you complete a certification audit for the whole application.
3. Groups are a condition of registration. They appear on your certificate, and adding or removing one later means applying for a variation.

Your groups also decide which NDIS Practice Standards you're assessed against. A certification audit covers the core module plus any supplementary modules for your supports, such as high intensity daily personal activities, specialist behaviour support, implementing behaviour support plans, early childhood supports, specialised support coordination, specialist disability accommodation and supported independent living. After you apply, the Commission sends an initial scope of audit that confirms the audit type, groups and modules.

Groups inside the item number

Take the item 01_011_0107_1_1, weekday daytime self-care. The 0107 segment is the registration group, Daily personal activities. A provider delivering that item to an NDIA-managed participant must be registered for 0107. You can see which group any item sits under in the free NDIS price guide, which decodes each number.

The group doesn't change the price. Two providers registered for different groups claim the same item at the same price limit; registration decides who can claim it from NDIA-managed funding, not how much. For plan-managed participants, the plan manager pays registered and unregistered providers against the same item numbers, so the group matters mainly as a signal of the provider's registration and audit history.

Common NDIS registration groups

These are the groups most relevant to support work, community, therapy and SIL providers, with the audit type from the Commission's table. Always confirm against the official table before applying, because groups and audit types are set by the Commission and can change.

Some groups carry extra obligations beyond the audit type. Behaviour support and high intensity groups expect specific worker skills or qualifications, and the Commission applies additional conditions to 0107 providers where a participant who lives alone receives personal support from one worker only.

Registration group vs support category, support item and registration

Registration groups are easy to confuse with the other ways the NDIS sorts supports. Support categories organise a participant's funding; registration groups organise a provider's approval. The two overlap but don't line up one to one: category 01 Assistance with Daily Life, for example, includes items from several groups, such as 0107, 0104, 0115, 0120 and 0138.

How your groups shape your audit

The groups you hold decide how heavy your audit is, so they are as much a business decision as a compliance one. Based on the Commission's types of audits guidance:

• Verification audit: a desktop review of required documents against the verification module, which covers human resource management, risk management, complaints management and incident management. There's no onsite stage and no mid-term audit.
• Certification audit: a stage 1 desktop audit followed by a stage 2 onsite audit against the core module and any supplementary modules. Participants may be interviewed, and you must tell them they may be included unless they opt out. A mid-term audit is generally required around 18 months into the registration period.

Because certification wins, a provider with five verification groups and one certification group goes through the full certification process. That's why many small providers start with a narrow set of groups and add more through a variation once they have the staff, policies and evidence to support them.

Choosing your groups

Work from your services to the groups, not the other way round. For each support you plan to deliver in roughly your first year, find the matching item numbers, read the registration group from the middle of each number, and note the group's audit type. Then apply three tests:

• Will you actually deliver it soon? Leave "maybe later" services out; you can add them later.
• Can you evidence it? Each group needs policies, qualified workers and processes your auditor can sample.
• What does it do to your audit? One added certification group changes the audit type, effort and cost for everything.

Do unregistered providers need registration groups?

No. An unregistered provider isn't registered for any group, but can still deliver most supports to plan-managed and self-managed participants, claiming the same item numbers within the price limits for plan-managed funding. What unregistered providers can't do is deliver supports to NDIA-managed participants, or deliver supports that must be registered whoever pays.

Since 1 July 2026, two groups fall into that second category. The Commission states that providers must be registered, with the relevant group, to deliver supported independent living (0138) or an NDIS digital platform service (0137), and both require a certification audit. Transitional arrangements applied to existing providers; see the Commission's mandatory registration page. Specialist behaviour support, implementing restrictive practices and SDA already required registration before these reforms.

What participants should check

If your plan is NDIA-managed, or you're choosing a SIL provider, check that the provider is registered for the group that matches your support. The NDIS Commission publishes a public provider register where you can look up a provider and check whether it's registered and what it's registered to deliver; if in doubt, ask the provider for its certificate of registration, which lists its groups. A provider who is registered, but not for the group your support falls under, can't claim that support from NDIA-managed funding. If you plan-manage or self-manage, registration is a choice, and the provider's groups tell you which supports have been through an NDIS Commission audit.

How to add a registration group

You can vary your registration during your registration period. The Commission's manage your registration page sets out the process:

Completing an audit or lodging the form doesn't mean the variation is approved. Don't start delivering the new support to NDIA-managed participants until you have the decision. Before you apply, update your policies, confirm workers have the right skills and training, check your insurance covers the new support, and run a gap check with the free Practice Standards self-assessment.

Common mistakes with registration groups

• Ticking every group that might apply. Each group needs evidence, and one extra certification group can change your whole audit.
• Missing a group you deliver. Delivering an item to NDIA-managed participants without the matching group is delivering outside your registration.
• Assuming SIL sits inside 0115. From 1 July 2026, SIL has its own group, 0138, and its own item numbers.
• Treating groups as funding categories. A participant's budget doesn't care which group an item belongs to; your registration does.
• Forgetting worker requirements. High intensity and behaviour support groups come with skill and qualification expectations.
• Starting a new service before the variation is approved. Only the Commissioner or a delegate can approve it.