Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00122:section:2:p50
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00122
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 2 (pt 50/53)
Character Range: 463678–466415

(4)—within 28 days after receiving the information.
Note: Variations of allocations and rejections of applications are reviewable under Part 6.1.
 (6) The Secretary must notify the approved provider in writing of the Secretary's decision.

73‑6  Agreement taken to be varied
  If the Secretary varies, under section 73‑4 or 73‑5, one or more of the conditions of an allocation, the agreement entered into under subsection 73‑1(3) is taken to be varied accordingly.

73‑7  Appropriation
  Payments by the Commonwealth under this Part are to be made out of money appropriated by the Parliament for the purpose.

Division 74—How much is a residential care grant?

74‑1  The amount of a residential care grant
 (1) The amount of a *residential care grant is the amount specified in, or worked out in accordance with, the Grant Principles.
 (2) However, the amount of a grant to an approved provider must not exceed the difference between:
 (a) the *capital works costs of the project in respect of which the grant is payable; and
 (b) the sum of the money (if any) spent, and the money presently available for expenditure, by the approved provider towards the capital works costs of the project.

Part 5.5—Advocacy grants

Division 81—Advocacy grants

81‑1  Advocacy grants
 (1) The Secretary may, on behalf of the Commonwealth, enter into a written agreement with a body corporate under which the Commonwealth makes one or more grants of money to the body for the following purposes:
 (a) encouraging understanding of, and knowledge about, the rights of recipients and potential recipients of *aged care services on the part of people who are, or may become:
 (i) care recipients; or
 (ii) people caring for care recipients; or
 (iii) people who provide aged care services;
  or on the part of the general community;
 (b) enabling care recipients to exercise those rights;
 (c) providing free, independent and confidential advocacy services in relation to those rights to people:
 (i) who are, or may become, care recipients; or
 (ii) who are representatives of care recipients.
A grant of money under this subsection is an advocacy grant.
 (2) An *advocacy grant is payable to a body:
 (a) at such time as is specified in the agreement; and
 (b) in full or in such instalments as are specified in the agreement.

81‑2  Applications for advocacy grants
 (1) A body corporate, other than a body mentioned in subsection (3), may apply to the Secretary for an *advocacy grant.
 (2) The application must be:
 (a) in writing; and
 (b) in a form approved by the Secretary.
 (3) A body may not make an application under subsection (1) if it is:
 (a) an approved provider; or
 (b) a body that is directly associated with an approved provider.

81‑3