Banning orders: permanent, fixed-term and what they prohibit.

Summary

• The register export holds 859 banning orders, with effective dates from 2019 to November 2026.
• 352 (41.0%) are described as permanent. 483 (56.2%) carry an end date. 13 are described as temporary and 11 could not be classified from the text.
• Among the 483 dated orders, the most common length is 2 years (158), followed by 5 years (105), 3 years (67) and 10 years (48).
• 714 orders are in force at 4 November 2026.
• Nearly all orders (839, or 97.7%) prohibit providing, or being involved in providing, supports or services to NDIS participants. The rest of the wording varies, and orders often combine several prohibited activities.
• Banning orders can name individuals as well as organisations. We publish counts only and name no one.

Duration

We read duration from the published text and the register’s end date. An order is permanent if the text says so. If not, it is temporary if the text says so, and dated if the register gives an end date. Anything left is unclassified.

Some entries do not fit neatly. 2 entries described as permanent also carry an end date in the register. 12 of the 13 described as temporary carry an end date, and one has none. One entry uses both words and is counted as permanent. Our earlier article grouped the temporary and unclassified entries together as 24.

Length of dated orders

For the 483 dated orders we measured the gap between “date effective from” and the end date.

Lengths are grouped to the nearest whole year.

Duration by year

2026 covers entries effective to 2 November 2026.

What orders prohibit

Each order describes the activities it prohibits in free text. We searched that text for key phrases. One order can match several groups, so the counts overlap and add up to more than 859.

401 orders match one group only, usually the first. 7 match none of these groups. Phrase matching misses wording we did not anticipate and can match background text, so treat these as approximate.

What this does not tell you

• It shows what the Commission chose to publish, not every banning order it has made.
• Counts are of register entries. We cannot tell whether two entries relate to the same person or organisation.
• The date is the “date effective from” in the register, not necessarily the date of the decision.
• A published order records a decision. We have not tested why orders are made or why counts rose in 2025 and 2026.
• We classified duration and activity by searching the published text. That method has error, and some wording is unusual.
• The text describes what an order prohibits. It does not show whether anyone complied.

Source and licence

Source: NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission, compliance and enforcement actions register, retrieved 4 November 2026. © Commonwealth of Australia. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 unless stated otherwise (see the Commission’s copyright and disclaimer page). The counts, classifications and commentary on this page are our own analysis of that material, and the Commission has not reviewed or endorsed them.