Attachment A: FOI Request 2020/0071
Response to Parts A and B
The following table sets out information relating to applications to the Administrative Appeals
Tribunal (AAT) for review of decisions under the
National Disability Insurance Scheme Act
2013 (NDIS Act) that were finalised in the period from 1 January 2019 to 31 January 2020.
It sets out, by AAT registry, the number of applications in relation to which the AAT’s case
management system records that, at the time the application was finalised, the applicant:
• was represented by a person or organisation categorised by the AAT as a legal
representative
• was represented by a person or organisation not categorised by the AAT as a legal
representative, or
• had no representative.
Please note that an applicant can have more than one representative: the total count in the
table is greater than the number of NDIS applications finalised in the period (1,497).
Representative type
Legal
Other
None
Total
Registry
representative representative
(Self-
represented)
Adelaide
88
149
30
267
Brisbane
18
154
72
244
Canberra
65
91
28
184
Hobart
10
19
1
30
Melbourne
114
167
63
344
Perth
19
60
4
83
Sydney
131
492
131
754
Total
445
1,132
329
1,906