Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2021C00590:reg:7
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2021C00590
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 7
Character Range: 5534–7334

7  Residential care grants—criteria for allocations
 (1) For subsection 72‑1(2) of the Act, this section and section 8 specify the criteria that must be met for allocations by the Secretary of residential care grants in respect of projects for the provision of residential care.
 (2) A majority of the care recipients who receive, or who will receive, the care to which the grant relates must be one or more of the following:
 (a) supported residents, concessional residents or assisted residents;
 (b) people with special needs;
 (c) low‑means care recipients;
 (d) people who live in a location where there is a demonstrated need for additional residential care services;
 (e) people who do not live in a major city.
 (3) The Secretary must be satisfied that the applicant for the grant:
 (a) has demonstrated its ongoing financial and organisational viability; and
 (b) has demonstrated that it does not have the capacity to fund all or part of the project to which the grant relates without a residential care grant; and
 (c) is not a State or Territory or an authority of a State or Territory; and
 (d) if the applicant is, or has been, a provider of aged care for which any payment was or is payable under a law of the Commonwealth—has a very good record, or a demonstrated commitment to improvement, in respect of:
 (i) its conduct as such a provider; and
 (ii) compliance with its responsibilities as such a provider; and
 (iii) meeting its obligations arising from the receipt of any payment from the Commonwealth for providing aged care.
 (4) The Secretary must also be satisfied that no contracts for the construction of premises to be used to provide the residential care to which the project relates have been entered into, and no work has started on the construction of such premises.