Aged Care Legislation Consequential Amendments Regulations 2025 (F2025L01239)

Schedule 3   Health, Disability and Ageing

Healthcare Identifiers Regulations 2020

1   Section 5 (definition of evidence of identity process)

Repeal the definition, substitute:

evidence of identity process means:

(a) in relation to a healthcare provider organisation - the process to confirm the identity of the healthcare provider organisation's responsible officer and organisation maintenance officer undertaken by:

(i) if the responsible officer or organisation maintenance officer is an individual healthcare provider who is registered by a registration authority as a member of a health profession - the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency established by the National Law; or

(ii) in any other case - the service operator; or

(b) in relation to a healthcare support service provider - the process to confirm the identity of the healthcare support service provider's responsible officer, and organisation maintenance officer (if any),undertaken by one or more of the following:

(i) the Aged Care Department;

(ii) the National Disability Insurance Agency;

(iii) the service operator;

(iv) an entity prescribed for the purposes of column 1 of item 6 of the table in section 21 of the Act.