Search a provider's name against the Commission's compliance and enforcement register and you get a yes or a no. What you do not get, in the answer itself, is a date. An action recorded in 2019 sits in the same list as one that took effect this month, and the register's own headline count treats them identically. So the practical question a participant, a family member or a support coordinator is actually asking, which is is this provider sanctioned right now, is not the question the register's total answers.

We downloaded the full export on 30 July 2026 and counted it. There were 3,689 actions. Working out the status of each one takes two of the register's own date columns: the date an action takes effect, and the date it is no longer in force. On that basis 2,466 actions are currently in force, 1,217 have lapsed, and 6 have effective dates that have not arrived yet.

The sanction types behave nothing alike

The aggregate is the least interesting part. Split by type, the register describes six quite different instruments:

Compliance notice Compliance notice: 1,320 in force, 1,041 lapsed, 2,361 recorded in total 1,320 in force · 1,041 lapsed Banning order Banning order: 670 in force, 133 lapsed, 803 recorded in total 670 in force · 133 lapsed Revocation of registration Revocation of registration: 334 in force, 0 lapsed, 340 recorded in total 334 in force · none lapsed Refusal to re-register Refusal to re-register: 139 in force, 0 lapsed, 139 recorded in total 139 in force · none lapsed Suspension of registration Suspension of registration: 1 in force, 40 lapsed, 41 recorded in total 1 in force · 40 lapsed Enforceable undertaking Enforceable undertaking: 2 in force, 3 lapsed, 5 recorded in total 2 in force · 3 lapsed
Every action on the register, 30 July 2026, by type. Bar length is the total ever recorded. In force means the effective date has arrived and there is either no end date or an end date still ahead. Six revocations dated after 30 July are counted as neither. Source: the Commission’s own CSV export.

Revocations and refusals to re-register never lapse. Not one of the 340 revocations or 139 refusals carries an end date that has passed. That makes sense once you think about what they are: a revocation removes a registration rather than restricting it for a period, and a refusal to re-register is a decision about an application, not a clock. Six of the revocations have effective dates still ahead, out to the end of August, so the register can list a sanction before it starts.

Suspensions are the mirror image. Of 41 ever recorded, 40 have expired and exactly one was in force on the day we counted. A suspension is temporary by design, so a register hit against a suspension is, in the overwhelming majority of cases, a record of something that finished. It is also the smallest category by a wide margin, which is worth noting against any assumption that the Commission's main tool is a temporary hold.

Banning orders mostly persist. 670 of 803 are still in force. This is the instrument that does the work of excluding a person or an organisation from the scheme, and it is the one where a register hit most often means something current. But 133 have lapsed, which is not a rounding error: roughly one banning order in six on the register has run its course.

Compliance notices are close to an even split, 1,320 in force against 1,041 lapsed. They are also 64 per cent of the entire register, so they dominate the total while being the category where the total tells you least. We have written separately about why the notice count is so lumpy: the Commission runs audit deadlines through the whole provider book in bulk, and the biggest months in the register's history are those sweeps rather than scandals.

What this means if you are checking a provider

Add up the sanctions that actually stop an organisation or person operating in the scheme right now, which is banning orders, revocations and refusals to re-register in force, and the figure is 1,143. Against a register of 3,689 entries, that is the number to have in mind. It is not that the other entries are meaningless, because a lapsed action is still a real finding the Commission made and published, and a pattern of them may matter more than any single one. It is that "appears on the register" and "is currently barred" are separated by about 2,500 rows.

A further 346 actions are in force but time-limited: they carry an end date that has not arrived. So a fraction of what is current today is scheduled to stop being current, which is another reason a check has a shelf life.

Our view, and it is a view rather than a finding: the register is a genuinely good piece of public transparency that is one column short of being usable by the people it most affects. It publishes the Commission's own reasoning for each action, which is unusual and valuable. But the status of an action has to be derived by comparing two date fields against today's date, and nothing in the interface does that for you. A plain "in force" or "expired" flag on each result would change what a search means for a family choosing a provider, without the Commission having to publish a single new fact.

Sources

  1. NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission, Compliance and enforcement actions register, full CSV export downloaded 30 July 2026: all counts by sanction type and status, the effective and end-date columns, and the 3,689-row total. The register also carries the Commission's verbatim reasoning per action.
  2. The Scheme Brief, 3,671 enforcement actions, three sharp spikes: our earlier count of the same register, on the bulk audit-deadline sweeps that drive the compliance-notice totals, and the 27 and 28 July row counts cited above.

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