The full answer
A banning order is the NDIS Commission's nuclear option — they formally prevent you from working as an NDIS provider for 1-10 years or indefinitely. Reasons: serious breach (abuse, safeguarding failure, financial fraud), or failure to remediate a compliance notice. A banning order applies to the person (e.g. if you're a director, you're banned from being a director of any NDIS provider during the period). Process: 1) Usually follows a compliance notice you didn't remediate, 2) You're given right to respond, 3) Commission makes a decision and publishes it on the provider register, 4) Banning order is public and prevents you from operating or finding work. It's devastating. Avoid by treating compliance notices with urgency and demonstrating genuine remediation.