Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024A00104:section:211:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024A00104
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 211 (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 358135–360830

211  Available assistive technology account balance

Assistive technology account
 (1) A notional assistive technology account is established for the period (the account period) prescribed by the rules for an individual if an entry day for the individual occurs for the classification type ongoing or short‑term for the service group assistive technology.
 (1A) Without limiting subsection (1), rules made for the purposes of that subsection may provide that the System Governor may determine the account period for the individual in accordance with the rules.
 (2) The available balance of an individual's notional assistive technology account at a time is the difference, worked out in accordance with this section, between the sum of the credits that have been made to the account at that time reduced (but not below zero) by the sum of the debits that have been made to the account at that time.

Credit to account
 (3) At the start of the day the account is established, the account is credited with the individual's tier amount for the classification type for the service group for the account period.
 (4) If the account was established for the individual for the classification type ongoing for the service group, at the start of a day prescribed by the rules the amount prescribed by the rules is credited to the account.
 (4A) If the account was established for the individual for the classification type short‑term for the service group, at the start of a day prescribed by the rules the amount prescribed by the rules is credited to the account.
 (4B) Without limiting subsection (4A), rules made for the purposes of that subsection may provide that the System Governor may determine the amount for the individual in accordance with the rules.

Credit due to primary person‑centred supplement applying
 (5) If a primary person‑centred supplement for the classification type for the service group applies to the individual on the day the account is established, the account is credited at the start of the day with the amount of that primary person‑centred supplement for the individual for the account period.

Debits to account
 (6) If one or more claims are made under section 251 for person‑centred subsidy for the delivery of an ongoing or short‑term funded aged care service through the service group to the individual on a day in the account period, the account is reduced on that day (but after the start of the day), in the order prescribed by the rules, by the amount worked out as follows for each of those claims:
 (a) first, take the amount worked out under Step 1 of the method statement in section 210 for the claim;
 (b) then reduce the amount referred to in paragraph