Aged Care Legislation Amendment (New Commissioner Functions) (Transitional Provisions) Rules 2019

I, Richard Colbeck, Minister for Aged Care and Senior Australians, make the following rules.

Dated 19 December 2019

Richard Colbeck

Minister for Aged Care and Senior Australians

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Definitions

5 Saving of approval of approved providers—specified entity

1  Name

  This instrument is the Aged Care Legislation Amendment (New Commissioner Functions) (Transitional Provisions) Rules 2019.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Aged Care Legislation Amendment (New Commissioner Functions) Act 2019.

4  Definitions

  In this instrument:

Act means the Aged Care Legislation Amendment (New Commissioner Functions) Act 2019.

aged care service has the same meaning as in the Aged Care Act 1997.

5  Saving of approval of approved providers—specified entity

  For the purposes of subparagraph (1)(b)(ii) of item 2 of Schedule 4 to the Act, an entity that proposes to conduct an aged care service is specified.