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

53   Subsections 91(1) and (2)

Repeal the subsections, substitute:

(1) The Minister must, in writing, determine a method for a financial year, that may be used at any time during that year, for working out the following:

(a) the number of places available at that time to be allocated to individuals for each service group;

(b) how many of the places mentioned in paragraph (a) for a service group are for allocation for a particular classification type (other than hospital transition) for the service group;

(c) how many of the places mentioned in paragraph (b) for a particular classification type for a service group are for allocation for a particular classification level in the classification type;

(d) if the service group is home support - how many of the places mentioned in paragraph (b) or (c) are for allocation as interim places or full places for the classification type or classification level.

(2) Without limiting subsection (1), the method prescribed may be based on any of the following factors:

(a) forecast demand for funded aged care services at the time and the forecast cost of those services at that time;

(b) the appropriation for the financial year and how much of that appropriation is left at the time;

(c) target average wait times for individuals with access approvals for a classification type for a service group who are seeking to access funded aged care services through the service group.