Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00122:section:5:p37
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00122
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 5 (pt 37/54)
Character Range: 130784–133645

location;
 (c) the date of the proposed relinquishment of the places;
 (d) the number of places to be relinquished;
 (e) the approved provider's proposals for ensuring that care needs are appropriately met for those care recipients (if any) who are being provided with care in respect of the places to be relinquished;
 (f) the approved provider's proposals for ensuring that the provider meets the provider's responsibilities for any:
 (i) *accommodation bond balance; or
 (ii) *entry contribution balance; or
 (iii) *refundable deposit balance;
  held by the provider in respect of the places to be relinquished.
 (3) The proposals referred to in paragraph (2)(e) must deal with the matters specified in the Allocation Principles.
 (4) An approved provider must not *relinquish a *place that has taken effect under Division 15 without giving a notice of the relinquishment under this section at least 60 days before the proposed date of relinquishment.
Note: Approved providers have a responsibility under Part 4.3 to comply with this obligation. Failure to comply with a responsibility can result in a sanction being imposed under Part 7B of the *Quality and Safety Commission Act.
 (5) If an approved provider that is a *corporation fails to comply with subsection (4), the approved provider commits an offence punishable, on conviction, by a fine not exceeding 30 penalty units.
Note: Chapter 2 of the Criminal Code sets out the general principles of criminal responsibility.

18‑3  Proposals relating to the care needs of care recipients
 (1) The Secretary must decide whether any proposals for ensuring that care needs are appropriately met for care recipients who are being provided with care in respect of the *places being *relinquished, set out in the notice under subsection 18‑2(1), are satisfactory.
 (2) In deciding if the proposals are satisfactory, the Secretary must take into account any matters specified in the Allocation Principles.
 (3) The Secretary must give notice to the approved provider, in writing, of the Secretary's decision within 14 days after receiving the notice under subsection 18‑2(1).
 (4) If the Secretary decides that the proposals are not satisfactory, the Secretary may, in the notice given under subsection (3), request the approved provider to modify the proposals as specified in the notice within the period specified in the notice.
 (5) If the approved provider does not, within the period specified in the notice, modify the proposals in accordance with the request, the Secretary may give notice, in writing, to the approved provider:
 (a) rejecting the proposals set out in the notice under subsection 18‑2(1); and
 (b) setting out new proposals acceptable to the Secretary for ensuring that care needs are appropriately met for care recipients who are being provided with care in respect of the *places being