Aged Care Amendment Act 2004
No. 82, 2004
An Act to amend the Aged Care Act 1997, and for related purposes
Contents
1 Short title
2 Commencement
3 Schedule(s)
Schedule 1—Amendments
Aged Care Act 1997
Aged Care Amendment Act 2004
No. 82, 2004
An Act to amend the Aged Care Act 1997, and for related purposes
[Assented to 25 June 2004]
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the Aged Care Amendment Act 2004.
2 Commencement
This Act commences, or is taken to have commenced, on 1 July 2004.
3 Schedule(s)
Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
Schedule 1—Amendments
Aged Care Act 1997
1 Paragraph 28‑1(3)(b)
Repeal the paragraph.
2 Paragraph 57A‑2(1)(h)
Omit “imposes a 5 year limit”, substitute “deals with cessation of the provision of care”.
3 Subsections 57A‑7(2), (3) and (4)
Repeal the subsections.
Note: The heading to section 57A‑7 is replaced with the heading “Accommodation charge not to accrue after provision of care has ceased”.
4 Application of amendments
The amendments made by items 2 and 3 of this Schedule do not apply in relation to a person who first entered any residential care service as a care recipient (other than as a recipient of respite care) before 1 July 2004.
[Minister’s second reading speech made in—
House of Representatives on 2 June 2004
Senate on 16 June 2004]
(92/04)