Aged Care Amendment Act 2004 (Cth)

Aged Care Amendment Act 2004

No. 82, 2004

An Act to amend the Aged Care Act 1997, and for related purposes

Contents

Aged Care Amendment Act 2004

No. 82, 2004

An Act to amend the Aged Care Act 1997, and for related purposes

[Assented to 25 June 2004]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1Short title

This Act may be cited as the Aged Care Amendment Act 2004.

2Commencement

This Act commences, or is taken to have commenced, on 1 July 2004.

3Schedule(s)

Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1Amendments

Aged Care Act 1997

1

Paragraph 28‑1(3)(b)

Repeal the paragraph.

2

Paragraph 57A‑2(1)(h)

Omit “imposes a 5 year limit”, substitute “deals with cessation of the provision of care”.

3

Subsections 57A‑7(2), (3) and (4)

Repeal the subsections.

Note: The heading to section 57A‑7 is replaced with the heading “Accommodation charge not to accrue after provision of care has ceased”.

4

Application of amendments

The amendments made by items 2 and 3 of this Schedule do not apply in relation to a person who first entered any residential care service as a care recipient (other than as a recipient of respite care) before 1 July 2004.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 2 June 2004

Senate on 16 June 2004]

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