Information Amendment (Quality Agency) Principle 2013
I, Mitch Fifield, Assistant Minister for Social Services, make the following principle under section 96-1 of the Aged Care Act 1997.
Dated: 19 December 2013
 
 
 
 
 
Mitch Fifield
Assistant Minister for Social Services
 
 
 
 
  
Contents
1             Name of principle                                                                                                           1
2             Commencement                                                                                                              1
3             Authority                                                                                                                        1
4             Schedule(s)                                                                                                                     1
Schedule 1—Amendments                                                                                                                          2
Information Principles 1997                                                                                                               2
 
 
1  Name of principle
                   This principle is the Information Amendment (Quality Agency) Principle 2013.
2  Commencement
                   This principle commences on 1 January 2014.
3  Authority
                   This principle is made under the Aged Care Act 1997.
4  Schedule(s)
                   Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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
  
Information Principles 1997
 
1  Section 16.4
Insert:
Quality Agency means the Australian Aged Care Quality Agency.
2  Paragraph 16.5(1)(c)
Substitute:
 
(c)   to the chief executive officer of the Quality Agency, to assist the chief executive officer to perform the functions mentioned in section 12 of the Australian Aged Care Quality Agency Act 2013; or
 
3  Paragraph 16.5(1)(c) (note at the end)
Repeal the note.
4  Paragraph 16.5(1)(f)
            Repeal the paragraph, substitute:
 
(f)   to the Aged Care Pricing Commissioner, to assist the Pricing Commissioner to perform his or her functions; or
(g)   to the chief executive officer of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, to assist the body to perform its functions under the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Act 1987, subject to the confidentiality and other information protection provisions in that Act, including but not limited to section 29.
5  Subsection 16.5(2) (boxed note at the end)
Repeal the boxed note.