2002‑2003‑2004

The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Presented and read a first time

Aged Care Amendment Bill 2004

No.      , 2004

(Health and Ageing)

A Bill for an Act to amend the Aged Care Act 1997, and for related purposes

Contents
1	Short title	1
2	Commencement	1
3	Schedule(s)	1
Schedule 1—Amendments	3
Aged Care Act 1997	3

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		Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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