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

151   At the end of section 239

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(3) Without limiting subsection (2), circumstances prescribed for a provider-based supplement may include circumstances relating to any of the following:

(a) characteristics of the approved residential care home in which the service was delivered (such as its location and number of beds);

(b) the number of other individuals to whom the registered provider delivered funded aged care services at the approved residential care home during a particular period (whether or not that period includes the day, and whether or not the funded aged care services were provided during that period to the individual in relation to whom the supplement applies);

(c) information provided to the System Governor in relation to the registered provider's compliance with one or more of the following in relation to the approved residential care home for a particular period (whether or not that period includes the day):

(i) a condition of the registered provider's registration under Division 1 of Part 4 of Chapter 3;

(ii) an obligation of the registered provider under Division 2 of that Part.

(4) Before the Minister makes rules prescribing circumstancesfor the purposes of paragraph (2)(a), the Minister must be reasonably satisfied that additional funding will assist those registered providers to improve, or maintain, compliance with any of the following in relation to the delivery of funded aged care services to individuals at the approved residential care home:

(a) a condition of registration under Division 1 of Part 4 of Chapter 3 that applies to those providers;

(b) an obligation under Division 2 of that Part that applies to those providers.