Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2025 (45 of 2025)

Schedule 1   Amendment of the Aged Care Act 2024

Part 1   Amendments commencing immediately after the commencement of the Aged Care Act 2024

Aged Care Act 2024

174   At the end of Subdivision D of Division 6 of Part 2 of Chapter 4

Add:

263A Mergers of service delivery branches

(1) The rules may make provision for, or in relation to, the merger of 2 or more service delivery branches of a registered provider into a single service delivery branch of the provider.

(2) Without limiting subsection (1), the rules may make provision for, or in relation to, any one or more of the following matters:

(a) the consolidation of the notional service delivery branch accounts for those branches;

(b) any other rights, obligations or responsibilities of the registered provider in relation to each of those service delivery branches under this Chapter as they exist immediately before the merger takes effect;

(c) any other matter that is reasonably necessary to deal with the matter specified in paragraph (a) or (b).