Aged Care Act 1997
User Rights Principles Amendment (No. 2) 1997
I, WARWICK SMITH, Minister for Family Services, make the following Principles under subsection 96-1 (1) of the Aged Care Act 1997.
Dated 2 November 1997.
warwick smith
Minister for Family Services
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1. Citation
1.1 These Principles may be cited as the User Rights Principles Amendment (No. 2) 1997.
2. Amendment
2.1 The User Rights Principles 1997 1 are amended as set out in these Principles.
3. Commencement
3.1 These Principles are taken to have commenced on 1 October 1997.
4. Section 23.56 (Circumstances constituting financial hardship)
4.1 Add at the end:
“(3) In working out if the person is a concessional resident, payment of an accommodation bond would cause a person financial hardship if:
(a) the person has been a homeowner; and
(b) a carer of the person has occupied the home for the past 2 years and, at the applicable time, was eligible to receive an income support payment; and
(c) the value of the person’s assets, other than the home, was less than:
(i) the amount obtained by rounding to the nearest $500.00 (rounding $250.00 upwards) an amount equal to 2.5 times the basic age pension amount at that time; or
(ii) such other amount as is specified in, or worked out in accordance with, these Principles.
“(4) For paragraph (3) (b), applicable time has the meaning given by subsection 44-7 (2) of the Act.”.
NOTE
1. User Rights Principles 1997 notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 29 September 1997, as amended by User Rights Principles Amendment (No. 1) 1997 notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 29 September 1997.