Aged Care Act 1997
User Rights Principles Amendment (No. 4) 1997
I, WARWICK SMITH, Minister for Family Services, make the following Principles under subsection 96-1 (1) of the Aged Care Act 1997.
Dated 7 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. 4) 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 commence on 10 November 1997.
4. Section 23.3 (Definitions)
4.1 Definition of low level of care:
Omit the definition.
5. Section 23.52B (Maximum amount)
5.1 Omit subsection 23.52B (3), substitute:
“(3) The person enters an aged care service at a high level of residential care.”.
6. Section 23.83A (Capped bond—amount to be taken into account)
6.1 Add at the end:
“(3) However, the amounts specified in subsection (2) may only be added to the maximum daily amount of the resident fee during the period of 5 years starting on the day when the care recipient entered the residential care service.
“(4) If an amount specified in subsection (2) had already been added to the maximum daily amount of the resident fee in respect of another residential care service, the period of 5 years referred to in subsection (3) is reduced by each day for which an amount was so added.”.
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;
User Rights Principles Amendment (No. 2) 1997 published in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 3 November 1997;
User Rights Principles Amendment (No. 3) 1997 published in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 6 November 1997.