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

187   Subsection 290(2)

Repeal the subsection, substitute:

(2) The application may relate to:

(a) an approved residential care home of the provider, including a home that is being, or is proposed to be, refurbished; or

(b) a distinct part of an approved residential care home of the provider, including a distinct part that is being, or is proposed to be, constructed or refurbished; or

(c) a residential care home, or a proposed residential care home, that the provider has applied, or intends to apply, for approval of under section 111; or

(d) a distinct part of a residential care home, or a proposed residential care home, that the provider has applied, or intends to apply, for approval of under section 111.

Note: Although applications may be made under this section in relation to residential care homes that are not approved residential care homes, only a registered provider delivering funded aged care services through the service group residential care in an approved residential care home may charge, under this Part, an amount of accommodation payment.