Bill
Aged Care Amendment (Movement of Provisionally Allocated Places) Bill 2019
lapsed, as at 2019-04-02. Health portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Health
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2019-02-13
- second reading — 2019-02-13
- second reading — 2019-04-02
- second reading — 2019-04-02
- third reading — 2019-04-02
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2019-02-13.
The bill would allow the Secretary of the Department of Health to let approved aged care providers move residential care places from one region to another within the same state or territory.
It would amend the Aged Care Act 1997 to permit the Secretary to vary the region to which a provisionally allocated place is attached, after a provider shows the move benefits consumers and meets local need.
The change is needed because the department has been allowing such moves based on a mistaken interpretation of the Act, but the law does not currently support this practice.
- The bill gives the Secretary of Health power to approve movement of provisionally allocated residential aged care places between regions.
- It aligns the law with the government's existing administrative practice of considering such moves.
- It does not allow movement of places between states or territories.
Approved providers of residential aged care and the Department of Health.
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