Residential Care Subsidy Amendment (Quality Agency) Principle 2013 (Cth)

Residential Care Subsidy Amendment (Quality Agency) Principle 2013

I, Mitch Fifield, Assistant Minister for Social Services, make the following principle under section 96-1 of the Aged Care Act 1997.

Dated: 19 December 2013

Mitch Fifield

Assistant Minister for Social Services

Contents

1  Name of principle   1

2  Commencement.    1

3  Authority...........      1

4  Schedule(s)........    1

Schedule 1—Amendments     2

Residential Care Subsidy Principles 1997       2

1  Name of principle

This principle is the Residential Care Subsidy Amendment (Quality Agency) Principle 2013.

2  Commencement

This principle commences on 1 January 2014.

3  Authority

This principle is made under the Aged Care Act 1997.

4  Schedule(s)

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

Residential Care Subsidy Principles 1997

1  Section 21.3

Insert:

Quality Agency means the Australian Aged Care Quality Agency.

2  Section 21.3 (note 2 at the end)

Repeal the note, substitute:

Note:       A number of expressions used in these Principles are defined in the Act, including the following:

(a)   accreditation requirement;

(b)     basic age pension amount;

(c)   dependent child;

(d)     lowest applicable classification level.

3  Section 21.3B

Omit “accreditation body” (wherever occurring), substitute “Quality Agency”.

4  Subsection 21.3B(1)

Omit “subsection 2.9 (2) of the Accreditation Grant Principles 2011”, substitute “subsection 2.2(2) of the Quality Agency Principles 2013”.

5  Subsection 21.3B(5)

Omit “subsection 2.10(1) of the Accreditation Grant Principles 2011”, substitute “subsection 2.3(1) of the Quality Agency Principles 2013”.