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

60   Section 93

Repeal the section, substitute:

93 Method for allocation

(1) The System Governor must determine in what order to allocate places to individuals under subsection 92(1) for a classification type for a service group or for a classification level for a classification type for a service group.

(2) The rules may prescribe a method that the System Governor must follow in deciding the order of allocation under subsection (1) for a classification type for a service group or for a classification level for a classification type for a service group.

(3) Without limiting subsection (1), a method prescribed for the purposes of subsection (2) for the allocation of a place to an individual for a classification type for a service group, or a classification level for a classification type for a service group, may be based on any of the following factors:

(a) the individual's priority category (if any) for the classification type;

(b) the day the individual's access approval for the classification type was given;

(c) whether the individual has an interim place in effect for the classification type or the classification level;

(d) the individual's wait time for the allocation of a place for the classification type or the classification level;

(e) whether the individual has informed the System Governor that the individual is not seeking access to funded aged care services for a specified period.