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Aged Care Legislation Amendment (Quality Indicator Program) Principles 2023

I, Anika Wells, Minister for Aged Care, make the following principles.

Dated 31 October 2023   

Anika Wells

Minister for Aged Care

 

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Accountability Principles 2014

Records Principles 2014

 

1  Name

  This instrument is the Aged Care Legislation Amendment (Quality Indicator Program) Principles 2023.

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.

 

Commencement information

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Provisions

Commencement

Date/Details

1.  The whole of this instrument

The day after registration.

 

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 Act 1997.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1Amendments

Accountability Principles 2014

1  Section 4 (definition of National Aged Care Mandatory Quality Indicator Program Manual)

Repeal the definition, substitute:

National Aged Care Mandatory Quality Indicator Program Manual means the National Aged Care Mandatory Quality Indicator Program Manual 3.0–Part A, published on the Department’s website, as existing at the commencement of the Aged Care Legislation Amendment (Quality Indicator Program) Principles 2023.

2  Paragraph 26(b)

Omit “1 April 2023”, substitute “the commencement of the Aged Care Legislation Amendment (Quality Indicator Program) Principles 2023”.

Records Principles 2014

3  Section 4 (definition of National Aged Care Mandatory Quality Indicator Program Manual)

Repeal the definition, substitute:

National Aged Care Mandatory Quality Indicator Program Manual means the National Aged Care Mandatory Quality Indicator Program Manual 3.0–Part A, published on the Department’s website, as existing at the commencement of the Aged Care Legislation Amendment (Quality Indicator Program) Principles 2023.