An NDIS registration group is a category of support that a registered provider is approved to deliver. When you apply to the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission — or renew your registration — you nominate the groups that match your services, and they become conditions of your registration. The Commission's current list contains 38 registration groups, numbered 0101 to 0138, and each one is classified as either a verification or a certification group. That classification — not your organisation's size or preference — decides which audit pathway you must complete.
Which groups you need is simple in principle: select every group that matches a support you actually deliver, and none that you don't. But there is one rule worth knowing before you apply. If any single group on your application is certification-class, your entire registration goes through the more rigorous, more expensive certification audit — even if every other group is verification-class. This guide lists the groups, explains the split, and shows you how to choose the right ones.
What is an NDIS registration group?
Registration groups (sometimes called classes of support) are the categories the NDIS Commission uses to define exactly what a registered provider can deliver. When you apply or renew, you nominate one or more groups that correspond to your services. They are recorded as conditions of your registration, they appear on the public NDIS provider register, and they determine two things at once: the type of audit you must pass, and the NDIS Practice Standards modules an approved quality auditor assesses you against. You can add groups later through a change-of-registration request, but each new group can change your audit scope.
How many NDIS registration groups are there?
The NDIS Commission's official list currently contains 38 registration groups, numbered 0101 through 0138. Of those, 23 are verification-class (lower risk, lower complexity) and 15 are certification-class (higher risk, more complex). The list is maintained by the Commission and does change over time — recent additions include 0137 (providing an NDIS digital platform service) and 0138 (assistance with supported independent living). Always confirm your groups against the Commission's own registration-groups page before you apply, rather than relying on older summaries that still cite 34 or 36 groups; the numbers and audit types are only authoritative from the Commission.
Verification vs certification: how your groups set your audit pathway
This is the single most important thing to understand before choosing groups. Every registration group is tied to one of two audit types, and the type flows automatically from the groups you select.
- Verification audit — a lighter, largely desktop review for providers who deliver only lower-risk, lower-complexity supports, such as household tasks, plan management, therapeutic supports and most equipment groups.
- Certification audit — a two-stage assessment (a Stage 1 desktop review followed by a Stage 2 on-site audit) for providers who deliver one or more higher-risk or more complex supports, such as supported independent living, personal care, specialist behaviour support or specialist disability accommodation.
The rule that catches new providers is this: if your application includes groups associated with both verification and certification audits, you must complete a certification audit for the whole registration. A single certification-class group is enough to move your entire application onto the certification pathway, no matter how many verification-class groups sit alongside it. The Commission states this directly. So the groups you select don't just describe your services — they set your audit cost and effort. Our guide to NDIS certification vs verification audits compares the two pathways in full.
The 15 certification (higher-risk) registration groups
These are the groups that trigger a certification audit. If you deliver any one of them, plan for the two-stage pathway and a full Core Module assessment:
- 0102 — Assistance to access and maintain employment or higher education
- 0104 — High Intensity Daily Personal Activities
- 0106 — Assistance in coordinating or managing life stages, transitions and supports
- 0107 — Assistance with daily personal activities
- 0110 — Specialist positive behaviour support
- 0115 — Assistance with daily life tasks in a group or shared living arrangement
- 0117 — Development of daily living and life skills
- 0118 — Early intervention supports for early childhood
- 0125 — Participation in community, social and civic activities
- 0131 — Specialist disability accommodation
- 0132 — Specialised support coordination
- 0133 — Specialised supported employment
- 0136 — Group and centre-based activities
- 0137 — Providing an NDIS digital platform service
- 0138 — Assistance with supported independent living (SIL)
The verification (lower-risk) registration groups
The remaining 23 groups are verification-class. If every group on your application appears on this list, you complete the lighter verification audit. They cover accommodation and tenancy assistance, most assistive technology and equipment, and a range of lower-risk services, including:
- 0101 — Accommodation/tenancy assistance
- 0103 — Assistive products for personal care and safety
- 0105 — Personal mobility equipment
- 0108 — Assistance with travel/transport arrangements
- 0111 — Home modifications
- 0114 — Community nursing care
- 0116 — Innovative community participation
- 0120 — Household tasks
- 0121 — Interpreting and translation
- 0126 — Exercise physiology and personal training
- 0127 — Management of funding for supports in participant plans (plan management)
- 0128 — Therapeutic supports
- 0130 — Assistance animals
That is a representative selection; the full verification list also includes vehicle modifications, assistive equipment for recreation, vision and hearing equipment, communication and information equipment, specialised hearing and driver-training services, and customised prosthetics. If you deliver only supports from the verification set, your compliance load is genuinely lighter — which is why it pays to be precise about the groups you nominate.
How to choose which registration groups you need
The selection process is straightforward once you work from what you actually deliver rather than what sounds comprehensive:
- 1List the supports you deliver, or plan to deliver, in concrete terms — the day-to-day tasks, not just broad service names.
- 2Map each support to its registration group using the Commission's current list. A single service can touch more than one group.
- 3Check the audit type attached to every group you have matched — verification or certification.
- 4Select only the groups you genuinely deliver. Adding groups 'just in case' can push you onto the certification pathway and add modules and evidence you don't need.
- 5If any matched group is certification-class, prepare for the two-stage certification audit and the Core Module (S1–S4), plus any support-specific supplementary modules.
- 6Engage an approved quality auditor from the Commission's list — you choose and pay the auditor directly, and they assess you against the scope your groups define.
AuditCore maps your policies, records and evidence to the exact NDIS Practice Standards your registration groups trigger — the Core Module divisions S1–S4 for certification, or the Verification Module for lower-risk groups — and flags gaps in plain language before an approved quality auditor finds them.
Scan your evidence against S1–S4 before the auditor does →What certification groups mean for your Practice Standards assessment
The audit type also changes which NDIS Practice Standards you are measured against — so your registration groups quietly decide the depth of your whole compliance obligation.
Providers on the certification pathway are assessed against the NDIS Practice Standards Core Module. Its four divisions are S1 Rights and Responsibilities, S2 Governance and Operational Management, S3 Provision of Supports, and S4 Support Provision Environment. These are the structural divisions of the standards — not incident-severity ratings. On top of the Core Module, certain certification groups add supplementary modules matched to the specific risks of those supports — for example High Intensity Daily Personal Activities, Specialist Behaviour Support, Early Childhood Supports, or Specialist Disability Accommodation.
Providers on the verification pathway are assessed against the lighter Verification Module instead of the full Core Module — a smaller set of requirements covering areas such as worker screening, complaints management, incident management and insurance. That structural difference is the real reason certification costs more and takes longer: it is a broader assessment against more standards, delivered across two audit stages.
Common mistakes when choosing registration groups
- Over-registering. Selecting groups you don't actually deliver to look 'full service' can tip you onto certification and saddle you with modules and evidence you never needed.
- Under-registering. Delivering a support without holding its group means delivering outside your registration conditions — an enforcement risk. Mandatory registration for supported independent living, in particular, has been tightened under recent NDIS reforms, so SIL providers must hold the right group.
- Assuming your size decides the audit. It doesn't — your groups do. A sole trader delivering daily personal activities (0107) still faces a certification audit.
- Relying on outdated lists. Third-party summaries often lag the Commission and still cite 34 or 36 groups; the group codes and audit types are only authoritative from the Commission's own page.
- Forgetting that new groups change scope. Adding a certification-class group at renewal can move a previously verification-only provider onto the certification pathway.
Frequently asked questions
How many NDIS registration groups are there?
The NDIS Commission's current list has 38 registration groups, numbered 0101 to 0138 — 23 verification-class and 15 certification-class. Because the Commission updates the list over time, confirm the current groups and audit types on its registration-groups page before you apply.
Which registration groups need a certification audit?
The 15 higher-risk groups require certification, including supported independent living (0115 and 0138), daily personal activities and high intensity personal activities (0104, 0107), specialist positive behaviour support (0110), specialist disability accommodation (0131), specialised support coordination (0132) and early intervention for early childhood (0118). If any one of these is on your application, your whole registration goes through the certification pathway.
Can I choose my own registration groups?
You nominate the groups that match the supports you deliver, and the Commission confirms your scope and the audit type that follows. You cannot simply opt for the cheaper verification audit if you deliver a certification-class support — the group determines the pathway, so choose only what you genuinely provide.
What happens if I deliver a support without the right registration group?
Delivering a support you are not registered for means operating outside your registration conditions, which is a compliance and enforcement risk. If your services change, lodge a change-of-registration request to add the group — and expect your audit scope, and possibly your audit type, to update accordingly.
Do registration groups affect the cost of an NDIS audit?
Yes, indirectly. Your groups set the audit type, and a two-stage, on-site certification audit costs considerably more than a desktop verification audit. Choosing only the groups you truly deliver is one of the few levers you have over audit cost. Our breakdown of how much an NDIS audit costs explains the ranges in detail.
The bottom line
NDIS registration groups are the backbone of your registration: they define what you can deliver, which Practice Standards you're held to, and which audit you must pass. There are 38 of them, split into 23 verification-class and 15 certification-class, and the mix you select decides your pathway — with a single certification group enough to move your entire application onto the harder, costlier certification route.
So choose deliberately. Map your real services to their groups, select only what you deliver, and know in advance whether you're heading for verification or certification. AuditCore then keeps you ready for whichever pathway your groups trigger — continuously mapping your evidence to the exact Practice Standards you're assessed against, so an audit is something you walk into rather than scramble for.
