Aged Care (Transitional Provisions) (Subsidy and Other Measures) Amendment (March Indexation and Other Measures) Determination 2019 (Cth)

Aged Care (Transitional Provisions) (Subsidy and Other Measures) Amendment (March Indexation and Other Measures) Determination 2019

I, Ken Wyatt, Minister for Senior Australians and Aged Care and Minister for Indigenous Health, make the following determination.

Dated   5 March 2019

Ken Wyatt AM

Minister for Senior Australians and Aged Care and Minister for Indigenous Health

Contents

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

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

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

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

Schedule 1—Amendments   2

Aged Care (Transitional Provisions) (Subsidy and Other Measures) Determination 2014   2

1  Name

This instrument is the Aged Care (Transitional Provisions) (Subsidy and Other Measures) Amendment (March Indexation and Other Measures) Determination 2019.

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.  Sections 1 to 3 and anything in this instrument not elsewhere covered by this table	20 March 2019
2.  Schedule 1, Part 1	20 March 2019
3.  Schedule 1, Part 2	1 April 2019

Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

Part 1—Amendments commencing 20 March 2019

Aged Care (Transitional Provisions) (Subsidy and Other Measures) Determination 2014

1  Amendments of listed provisions—indexation of amounts of supplements

The provisions listed in the following table are amended as set out in the table.

Amendments relating to indexation of amounts of supplements
Item	Provision	Omit	Substitute
1	Subsection 15(1)	$56.59	$57.14
2	Subsection 15(2)	$36.88	$37.24
3	Subsection 15(3)	$30.99	$31.29
4	Paragraph 21(1)(a)	$56.59	$57.14
5	Paragraph 21(2)(a)	$22.55	$22.77
6	Paragraph 21(2)(b)	$14.74	$14.88
7	Paragraph 22(1)(a)	$56.59	$57.14
8	Subsection 22(2)	$9.27	$9.36
9	Paragraph 26(1)(a)	$56.59	$57.14
10	Paragraph 26(2)(a)	$56.59	$57.14
11	Subsection 30(2)	$38.77	$39.15
12	Paragraph 31(2)(a)	$54.34	$54.87
13	Paragraph 31(2)(b)	$38.12	$38.49
14	Subsection 53(1)	$22.55	$22.77
15	Subsection 57(1), table item 1	$8.44	$8.52
16	Subsection 57(1), table item 2	$5.63	$5.68
17	Subsection 57(1), table item 3	$2.81	$2.84
18	Section 67	$8.44	$8.52

2  Amendments of listed provisions— increased amounts

The provisions listed in the following table are amended as set out in the table.

Amendments relating to increased amounts of supplements
Item	Provision	Omit	Substitute
1	Section 79	$16.16	$21.01
2	Section 87	10%	11.5%
3	Section 89	10%	11.5%

3  Subsection 8(3) (table)

Repeal the table, substitute:

ACFI amounts
Item	Domain category	Domain amount ($)
1	Nil ADL category	$0.00
2	Low ADL category	$40.90
3	Medium ADL category	$89.07
4	High ADL category	$123.39
5	Nil behaviour category	$0.00
6	Low behaviour category	$9.35
7	Medium behaviour category	$19.38
8	High behaviour category	$40.40
9	Nil CHC category	$0.00
10	Low CHC category	$18.14
11	Medium CHC category	$51.67
12	High CHC category	$74.62

Part 2—Amendments commencing 1 April 2019

Aged Care (Transitional Provisions) (Subsidy and Other Measures) Determination 2014

1  Subsection 10(3) (table)

Repeal the table, substitute:

RCS amounts
Item	RCS classification	RCS amount ($)
1	Classification level 1	$183.67
2	Classification level 2	$166.55
3	Classification level 3	$143.47
4	Classification level 4	$101.42
5	Classification level 5	$61.79
6	Classification level 6	$51.17
7	Classification level 7	$39.31
8	Classification level 8	$0.00