Quality of Care Amendment Principles 2003 (No. 1)
I, JULIE ISABEL BISHOP, Minister for Ageing, make these Principles under subsection 96‑1 (1) of the Aged Care Act 1997.
Dated 12 November 2003
JULIE BISHOP
Minister for Ageing
1 Name of Principles
These Principles are the Quality of Care Amendment Principles 2003 (No. 1).
2 Commencement
These Principles commence on gazettal.
3 Amendment of Quality of Care Principles 1997
Schedule 1 amends the Quality of Care Principles 1997.
Schedule 1 Amendments
(section 3)
[1] Section 18.3, note
after
flexible care
insert
key personnel
[2] Part 2, heading
substitute
Part 2 Responsibilities of approved providers
Division 2.1 Specified care and services for residential care services
[3] Section 18.5, heading
substitute
18.5 Purpose of Division (Act, s 54-1)
[4] Section 18.5
omit
Part
insert
Division
[5] After section 18.6
insert
Division 2.2 Other responsibilities
18.6A Purpose of Division (Act, s 54-1)
This Division specifies other responsibilities of an approved provider in relation to the quality of the aged care that the approved provider provides.
18.6B Fire safety declaration
(1) An approved provider must, in relation to each residential care service operated by the approved provider on any day in 2003 or a later calendar year, give to the Secretary a declaration (a fire safety declaration) about whether the residential care service complied with all applicable State or Territory laws (including local by-laws) relating to fire safety on every day in the year, being a day on which the approved provider provided aged care through the residential care service.
(2) A fire safety declaration must:
(a) be in a form approved by the Secretary; and
(b) include all the information required by the form; and
(c) not contain false or misleading information; and
(d) be signed by one of the approved provider’s key personnel, being a person who is authorised by the approved provider to sign the declaration.
(3) A fire safety declaration must be given to the Secretary on or before 1 March in the year following the calendar year to which it relates.