Aged Care (Subsidy, Fees and Payments) Amendment (Removal of Certification and Other Measures) Determination 2015
I, Mitch Fifield, Assistant Minister for Social Services, make the following determination.
Dated 26 June 2015
Mitch Fifield
Assistant Minister for Social Services
 
  
  
Contents
1............ Name............................................................................................................................. 1
2............ Commencement............................................................................................................. 1
3............ Authority....................................................................................................................... 1
4............ Schedules...................................................................................................................... 1
Schedule 1—Amendments                                                                                                                          2
Part 1—Amendments relating to removal of certification                                                    2
Aged Care (Subsidy, Fees and Payments) Determination 2014                                                   2
Part 2—Amendments relating to accommodation supplement                                          3
Aged Care (Subsidy, Fees and Payments) Determination 2014                                                   3
 
1  Name
                   This is the Aged Care (Subsidy, Fees and Payments) Amendment (Removal of Certification and Other Measures) Determination 2015.
2  Commencement
             (1)  Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.
 
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1.  The whole of this instrument
The day after this instrument is registered.
 

Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.
             (2)  Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.
3  Authority
                   This instrument is made under subsections 44‑5(3) and 44‑28(4) of the Aged Care Act 1997.
4  Schedules
                   Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.
Schedule 1—Amendments
Part 1—Amendments relating to removal of certification
Aged Care (Subsidy, Fees and Payments) Determination 2014
1  Section 16 (definition of certified residential care service)
Repeal the definition.
2  Section 17
Repeal the section, substitute:
17  Care recipients whose classification level is low level residential respite care
                   If the classification level for a care recipient on a day is low level residential respite care, then the amount of the respite supplement for the day for the care recipient is, subject to section 21, $36.57.
3  Subsections 18(1) to (3)
Repeal the subsections, substitute:
             (1)  If the classification level for a care recipient on a day is high level residential respite care, then the amount of the respite supplement for the day for the care recipient is, subject to section 21, the sum of:
                     (a)  $51.27; and
                     (b)  if, for a relevant year, the actual proportion of respite care provided through the residential care service is equal to or more than 70% of the specified proportion of respite care for the approved provider of the service—$35.97.
4  Subsection 18(4)
Omit “paragraph (2)(b) or (3)(b) (as the case requires)”, substitute “paragraph (1)(b)”.
Part 2—Amendments relating to accommodation supplement
Aged Care (Subsidy, Fees and Payments) Determination 2014
5  Section 49
Insert:
post‑2008 reform resident has the meaning given by section 44‑5C of the Aged Care (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997.
relevant resident has the same meaning as in the Subsidy Principles 2014.
significantly refurbished residential care service has the same meaning as in the Subsidy Principles 2014.
6  Subsection 51(1)
Omit “in relation to the care recipient is”, substitute “in relation to the care recipient meets the building requirements specified in Schedule 1 to the Aged Care (Transitional Provisions) Principles 2014 and is”.
7  Paragraph 51(1)(b)
Repeal the paragraph, substitute:
                     (b)  a significantly refurbished residential care service.
8  Subsection 51(3)
Omit “paragraph (1)(a) or (b), or subsection (2),”, substitute “subsection (1) or (2)”.
9  Subsection 51(4)
Repeal the subsection, substitute:
             (4)  Despite subsection (1), (2) or (3), the amount of accommodation supplement for a day for an eligible care recipient is the amount that applies under subsection (1), (2) or (3), reduced by 25%, if:
                     (a)  not more than 40% of care recipients to whom the relevant residential care service provides residential care, who are both post‑2008 reform residents and relevant residents, are low‑means care recipients or supported residents; or
                     (b)  not more than 40% of relevant residents (if any) to whom the relevant residential care service provides residential care are assisted residents, concessional residents, low‑means care recipients or supported residents.