Aged Care (Transitional Provisions) (Subsidy and Other Measures) Amendment (Viability Supplement) Determination 2016 (Cth)

Aged Care (Transitional Provisions) (Subsidy and Other Measures) Amendment (Viability Supplement) Determination 2016

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

Dated   13 December 2016

Sussan Ley

Minister for Health and Aged Care

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 (Viability Supplement) 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	1 January 2017.	1 January 2017

Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

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

1  Section 81 (definition of ARIA value)

Repeal the definition.

2  Section 85

Repeal the section, substitute:

85  Amount of viability supplement

  The amount of the viability supplement payable in respect of a day for a care recipient is the amount of the viability supplement that would apply for the day for the care recipient under Division 2 of Part 4 of Chapter 3 of the Aged Care (Subsidy, Fees and Payments) Determination 2014 if:

(a)  the care recipient were not a continuing care recipient; and

(b)  the viability supplement applied to the care recipient under the Aged Care Act 1997.