Aged Care Amendment (Accreditation Agency) Act 1998

No. 122, 1998

Aged Care Amendment (Accreditation Agency) Act 1998

No. 122, 1998

An Act to amend the Aged Care Act 1997

Contents

1 Short title...................................

2 Commencement...............................

3 Schedule(s)..................................

Schedule 1—Aged Care Act 1997

Aged Care Amendment (Accreditation Agency) Act 1998

No. 122, 1998

An Act to amend the Aged Care Act 1997

[Assented to 21 December 1998]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1  Short title

  This Act may be cited as the Aged Care Amendment (Accreditation Agency) Act 1998.

2  Commencement

  This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

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  Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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—Aged Care Act 1997

1  At the end of subsection 80‑1(2)

Add:

 ; (h) the fees (if any) that may be charged, on behalf of the Commonwealth, for services the body provides, or a way of determining such fees.

2  After subsection 80‑1(2)

Insert:

 (2A) Fees charged for a service that a body provides under the agreement must not be such as to amount to taxation.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 12 November 1998

Senate on 1 December 1998]