Aged Care (Subsidy, Fees and Payments) Amendment (Short-term Restorative Care) Determination 2016 (Cth)

Aged Care (Subsidy, Fees and Payments) Amendment (Short‑term Restorative Care) Determination 2016

I, Sussan Ley, Minister for Aged Care, make the following determination.

Dated   2 May  2016

Sussan Ley

Minister for Aged Care

Contents

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

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

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

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

Schedule 1—Amendments  2

Aged Care (Subsidy, Fees and Payments) Determination 2014  2

1  Name

This is the Aged Care (Subsidy, Fees and Payments) Amendment (Short-term Restorative Care) Determination 2016.

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	At the same time as the Aged Care Legislation Amendment (Short‑term Restorative Care) Principles 2016 commence.	6 May 2016

Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

Aged Care (Subsidy, Fees and Payments) Determination 2014

1  At the end of Chapter 4

Add:

Part 4—Amount of flexible care subsidy—care provided as short‑term restorative care

106A  Purpose of this Part

For section 52‑1 of the Act, this Part sets out a method for working out the amount of flexible care subsidy for a day for a care recipient who is being provided with short‑term restorative care (as defined by section 106A of the Subsidy Principles 2014) through a flexible care service.

106B  Amount of flexible care subsidy

(1)  The amount of flexible care subsidy for a day for a care recipient is the sum of:

(a)  the basic subsidy amount for the day for the care recipient; and

(b)  the dementia and veterans’ supplement equivalent amount for the day for the care recipient.

Basic subsidy amount

(2)  For paragraph (1)(a), the basic subsidy amount for the day for the care recipient is $193.34.

Dementia and veterans’ supplement equivalent amount

(3)  For paragraph (1)(b), the dementia and veterans’ supplement equivalent amount for the day for the care recipient is $3.87.