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  Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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