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Human Services (Medicare) Amendment (Aged Care) Regulation 2014 (Australia)
Human Services (Medicare) Amendment (Aged Care) Regulation 2014
Link to law: https://www.comlaw.gov.au/Details/F2014L00725
Select Legislative Instrument No. 81, 2014
Human Services (Medicare) Regulations 1975 2
This regulation is the Human Services (Medicare) Amendment (Aged Care) Regulation 2014.
This regulation is made under the Human Services (Medicare) Act 1973.
2 Regulation 3 (definition of Health Secretary)
5 Request information relating to payments
It is a prescribed function of the Chief Executive Medicare, on behalf of the Aged Care Secretary, to request an approved provider to give the Chief Executive Medicare information relating to payments made under the Aged Care Act or the Aged Care Transitional Act, in accordance with subsection 9‑3(1) of the Aged Care Act.
4 Regulations 6 and 7
Omit “Health Secretary” (wherever occurring), substitute “Aged Care Secretary”.
5 Regulations 9 to 11
9 Payment of subsidies
(1) Subject to subregulation (3), each of the following is a prescribed function of the Chief Executive Medicare:
(a) on behalf of the Aged Care Secretary, to perform the functions conferred on the Aged Care Secretary by:
(i) Parts 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3 of the Aged Care Act; and
(ii) Parts 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3 of the Aged Care Transitional Act;
(b) on behalf of the Commonwealth, to make payments of subsidies, and do anything necessary for the purpose of making such payments, in accordance with any of the provisions mentioned in paragraph (a).
(2) Each of the following is also a prescribed function of the Chief Executive Medicare:
(a) to make a record of information obtained in performing a function specified by subregulation (1);
(3) It is not a prescribed function of the Chief Executive Medicare to do any of the following:
(a) approve a form that the Aged Care Secretary is required to approve under:
(i) Part 3.1 or 3.2 of the Aged Care Act; or
(ii) Part 3.1 or 3.2 of the Aged Care Transitional Act;
(b) make a determination under section 42‑5 of the Aged Care Act;
(c) revoke a determination under section 42‑6 of the Aged Care Act;
(d) make a determination under:
(i) require a person to give information or produce a document; or
(ii) make a determination;
(f) perform a function or exercise a power of the Aged Care Minister in relation to the determination or payment of a subsidy under any of the provisions in paragraph (1)(a);
(g) enter into an agreement in relation to the payment of flexible care subsidy, in accordance with Part 2 of Chapter 4 of the Subsidy Principles 2014.
9A Functions relating to financial hardship
(1) Subject to subregulation (2), each of the following is a prescribed function of the Chief Executive Medicare, to be carried out on behalf of the Aged Care Secretary:
(a) to perform the functions conferred on the Aged Care Secretary by Division 52K of the Aged Care Act;
(b) to perform the functions conferred on the Aged Care Secretary by sections 57‑14 and 57‑15 of the Aged Care Transitional Act;
(c) to perform the functions conferred on the Aged Care Secretary by sections 57A‑9 and 57A‑10 of the Aged Care Transitional Act.
(2) It is not a prescribed function of the Chief Executive Medicare to approve a form that the Aged Care Secretary is required to approve under a provision mentioned in subregulation (1).
10 Notification of start of care
(1) Each of the following is a prescribed function of the Chief Executive Medicare, to be carried out on behalf of the Aged Care Secretary:
(a) to receive notice under subsection 63‑1B(2) of the Aged Care Act of a care recipient who enters a residential care service;
(b) to receive notice under Division 2 of Part 3 of the Accountability Principles 2014 of a care recipient who starts to be provided with home care.
(2) The prescribed functions in subregulation (1) do not include the function of approving the form in which notice is to be given.
11 Reconsideration and review of decisions
Each of the following is a prescribed function of the Chief Executive Medicare, to be carried out on behalf of the Aged Care Secretary:
(a) to exercise the powers and perform the functions of the Aged Care Secretary under Part 6.1 of the Aged Care Act for a reviewable decision described in any of the following items of the table in section 85‑1 of that Act:
(b) to exercise the powers and perform the functions of the Aged Care Secretary under Part 6.1 of the Aged Care Transitional Act for a reviewable decision described in any of the following items of the table in section 85‑1 of that Act:
(iii) items 48 to 53C;
(c) to act in any legal proceeding that concerns the exercise of powers or performance of functions by the Chief Executive Medicare under paragraph (a) or (b).
6 Regulations 12 and 13
After “Aged Care Act”, insert “or Chapter 3 of the Aged Care Transitional Act”.
8 Paragraph 14(1)(c)
(c) on behalf of the Aged Care Secretary, to determine to do anything permitted by section 95‑6 of the Aged Care Act in relation to a debt or class of debts arising, or an amount of a debt payable, under Chapter 3 of that Act or Chapter 3 of the Aged Care Transitional Act.
9 At the end of paragraph 15(1)(a)
Add “or the Aged Care Transitional Act”.
10 Paragraph 15(1)(b)
(b) to decide, for section 95‑4 of the Aged Care Act, if a recoverable amount (or part of it) should be deducted from one or more other amounts payable under that Act or the Aged Care Transitional Act to a transferee (within the meaning given by section 95‑4 of the Aged Care Act);
11 Regulation 16
Before “It is”, insert “(1)”.
12 Regulation 16
Omit “Health Secretary”, substitute “Aged Care Secretary”.
13 At the end of regulation 16
(2) It is a prescribed function of the Chief Executive Medicare, on behalf of the Aged Care Secretary, under subsection 96‑7(2) of the Aged Care Transitional Act:
(a) to receive and consider an applicant’s request to extend a period in which the applicant has been requested to give further information in relation to an application under that Act; and
(b) to extend the period if the Chief Executive Medicare considers it appropriate to do so.
14 Subregulations 17(1) and (2)
(a) it is a prescribed function of the Chief Executive Medicare under this Part to perform a function, or exercise a power, of the Aged Care Secretary on behalf of the Aged Care Secretary; and
(b) the performance of that function or the exercise of that power by the Aged Care Secretary requires or permits the Aged Care Secretary to act under, or in accordance with, a provision of any Principles made under section 96‑1 of the Aged Care Act or section 96‑1 of the Aged Care Transitional Act.
(2) It is a prescribed function of the Chief Executive Medicare to act on behalf of the Aged Care Secretary under, or in accordance with, the relevant provision of the Principles.
15 Regulation 22