Residential Care Subsidy Amendment Principles 2005 (No. 2) Aged Care Act 1997
I, JULIE BISHOP, Minister for Ageing, make these Principles under subsection 96-1 (1) of the Aged Care Act 1997. Dated 21 June 2005 JULIE BISHOP Minister for Ageing
 
1              Name of Principles                 These Principles are the Residential Care Subsidy Amendment Principles 2005 (No. 2). 2              Commencement                 These Principles commence on the day that they are registered. 3              Amendment of Residential Care Subsidy Principles 1997                 Schedule 1 amends the Residential Care Subsidy Principles 1997.
Schedule 1        Amendments (section 3)    [1]           Section 21.3, after definition of single-rate social security pension insert transition care has the meaning given by section 15.28 of the Flexible Care Subsidy Principles 1997. [2]           After section 21.3 insert Part 1AA            Leave from residential care services 21.3AA   Purpose of Part (Act, s 42-2)                 This Part specifies requirements for the purposes of paragraph 42-2 (3A) (b) of the Act.
Note   Subsection 42-2 (3A) of the Act provides that a care recipient is on leave under section 42-2 from a residential care service on a day if flexible care subsidy is payable in respect of the care recipient and the day, and the requirements specified in these Principles for the purposes of paragraph 42-2 (3A) (b) are met. 21.3AB   Requirement — leave under subsection 42-2 (3A)                 For paragraph 42-2 (3A) (b) of the Act, it is a requirement that the flexible care subsidy payable in respect of the care recipient and the day mentioned in paragraph 42-2 (3A) (a) is payable to an approved provider who provides flexible care in the form of transition care to the care recipient on the day.