Aged Care Legislation Amendment (Quality Indicator Program) Principles 2021 (Cth)

Aged Care Legislation Amendment (Quality Indicator Program) Principles 2021

I, Richard Colbeck, Minister for Senior Australians and Aged Care Services, make the following principles.

Dated 28 June 2021

Richard Colbeck

Minister for Senior Australians and Aged Care Services

Contents

1............ Name............................................................................................................................. 1

2............ Commencement............................................................................................................. 1

3............ Authority....................................................................................................................... 1

4............ Schedules...................................................................................................................... 1

Schedule 1—Amendments  2

Accountability Principles 2014  2

Records Principles 2014  2

1  Name

This instrument is the Aged Care Legislation Amendment (Quality Indicator Program) Principles 2021.

2  Commencement

(1)  Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1.  The whole of this instrument	1 July 2021.	1 July 2021

Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

(2)  Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

This instrument is made under the Aged Care Act 1997.

4  Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Accountability Principles 2014

1  Section 4 (definition of National Aged Care Mandatory Quality Indicator Program Manual)

Repeal the definition, substitute:

National Aged Care Mandatory Quality Indicator Program Manual means the National Aged Care Mandatory Quality Indicator Program Manual 2.0—Part A, published on the Department’s website, as existing at the start of 1 July 2021.

2  Paragraph 26(b)

Omit “those measurements and assessments”, substitute “those measurements and assessments (and any relevant measurements and assessments made in accordance with the National Aged Care Mandatory Quality Indicator Program Manual as existing before 1 July 2021)”.

3  Section 56

Repeal the section.

Records Principles 2014

4  Section 4 (definition of National Aged Care Mandatory Quality Indicator Program Manual)

Repeal the definition, substitute:

National Aged Care Mandatory Quality Indicator Program Manual means the National Aged Care Mandatory Quality Indicator Program Manual 2.0—Part A, published on the Department’s website, as existing at the start of 1 July 2021.