Australian Aged Care Quality Agency (Other Functions) Amendment (Short-term Restorative Care) Instrument 2016 (Cth)

Australian Aged Care Quality Agency (Other Functions) Amendment (Short‑term Restorative Care) Instrument 2016

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

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

Australian Aged Care Quality Agency (Other Functions) Specification 2015                   2

1  Name

This is the Australian Aged Care Quality Agency (Other Functions) Amendment (Short-term Restorative Care) Instrument 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Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 Australian Aged Care Quality Agency Act 2013.

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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

Australian Aged Care Quality Agency (Other Functions) Specification 2015

1  Section 1

Repeal the section, substitute:

1  Name

This is the Australian Aged Care Quality Agency (Other Functions) Instrument 2015.

2  Sections 4 and 5

Omit “Specification”, substitute “instrument”.

3  Section 5

Insert:

Act means the Australian Aged Care Quality Agency Act 2013.

4  Section 5 (definition of CEO)

Repeal the definition.

5  Section 5

Insert:

Flexible Care Standards means the Flexible Care Standards set out in the Quality of Care Principles made under section 96‑1 of the Aged Care Act 1997.

6  Section 5

Repeal the following definitions:

(a)  definition of Quality Agency;

(b)  definition of Secretary.

7  After section 5

Insert:

5A  Other functions of the CEO

For paragraph 12(h) of the Act, Schedule 1 sets out other functions of the CEO.

8  Schedule 1 (heading)

Repeal the heading, substitute:

Schedule 1—Other functions of the CEO

Note:       See section 5A.

9  Clause 1 of Schedule 1

Omit “For paragraph 12(h) of the Act, the”, substitute “The”.

10  Clause 2 of Schedule 1

Omit “For paragraph 12(h) of the Act, the”, substitute “The”.

11  At the end of Schedule 1

Add:

Part 2—Other additional functions

3  Functions relating to flexible care provided as short‑term restorative care

The CEO has the following functions:

(a)  in relation to flexible care services through which short‑term restorative care is provided in a residential care setting—to accredit the flexible care services in accordance with the Quality Agency Principles, and the Flexible Care Standards that apply to the services;

(b)  in relation to flexible care services through which short‑term restorative care is provided in a home care setting—to conduct the quality review of the flexible care services in accordance with the Quality Agency Principles, and the Flexible Care Standards that apply to the services.