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

280   Subsections 582(1) and (2)

Repeal the subsections, substitute:

(1) The System Governor may, in writing, arrange for the use, under the System Governor's oversight, of computer programs to take administrative action that must be taken by the System Governor under this Act.

(2) Administrative action is any of the following:

(a) making, or refusing or failing to make, a decision under a provision mentioned in subsection (2A);

(b) exercising, or refusing or failing to exercise, a power under a provision mentioned in subsection (2A);

(c) performing, or refusing or failing to perform, a function or duty under a provision mentioned in subsection (2A);

(d) doing, or refusing or failing to do, anything (including giving a notice) related to making a decision, exercising a power or performing a function or duty under a provision mentioned in subsection (2A).

(2A) For the purposes of subsection (2), the provisions are the following provisions of this Act:

(a) subsection 78(1) (which deals with classification levels);

(b) subsection 86(1) (which deals with priority category decisions);

(c) subsection 92(1) (which deals with allocation of places to individuals);

(d) subsection 93(1) (which deals with deciding the order of allocation of places to individuals);

(e) Parts 2 to 5 of Chapter 4 (which deal with funding of aged care services);

(f) section 541 (which deals with star ratings);

(g) a provision of this Act prescribed by the rules.