Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00074:reg:21e
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00074
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 21E
Character Range: 67054–68556

21E  Responsibility to give notice to care recipient or their estate
 (1) The ceasing home care provider must give a notice in accordance with this section.
 (2) The notice must (subject to subsection (3)):
 (a) specify:
 (i) the home care cessation day; and
 (ii) the care recipient's unspent home care amount; and
 (iii) the Commonwealth portion and care recipient portion of the care recipient's unspent home care amount; and
 (iv) if unpaid home care fees were deducted by the ceasing home care provider under step 6 of the care recipient portion calculator in subsection 21CB(1)—the amount of fees that were deducted; and
 (b) explain:
 (i) if the ceasing home care provider ceases to provide home care to the care recipient because the care recipient has died—the effect of item 1 of the table in subsection 21F(2); and
 (ii) otherwise—the effect of items 2 and 3 of that table and the effect of subsection 21F(3).
 (3) However, if the unspent home care amount, the Commonwealth portion or the care recipient portion is nil, the notice must state that the amount or portion is nil.

When notice must be given
 (4) The notice must be given within 56 days after the home care cessation day.

Who notice is given to
 (5) The notice must be given to:
 (a) the care recipient; or
 (b) if the care recipient has died—the care recipient's legal personal representative.
Note: A copy of the notice may also be required to be given to a new approved provider of a care recipient under subsection 21G(1).