Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2017C00106:section:5:p3
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2017C00106
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 5 (pt 3/24)
Character Range: 9108–11944

year; or
          (d) the financial year commencing on 1 July 1988 or any subsequent financial year while this agreement remains in force;
    "guidelines" means (other than in clause 10 and sub‑clauses 11 (2) and (3)) guidelines referred to in clauses 10 and 11;
    "joint body" means any two or more of the following acting jointly—
          (a) the State;
          (b) a local government; and
          (c) a community organisation;
    "local government" means a local governing body established by or under a law of the State;
    "long term residential care" includes long term care provided in a hospital or other institution, or through a residential care service within the meaning of the Aged Care Act 1997;
    "program" means the Home and Community Care Program established pursuant to clause 5;
    "second grant year" means the financial year commencing on 1 July 1986;
    "State base" means the unadjusted amount referred to in paragraph 14 (a);
    "target population" means the persons referred to in paragraph 6 (a); and
    "third grant year" means the financial year commencing on 1 July 1987.

(2) In this agreement, unless a contrary intention appears—
    (a) a reference (other than in this paragraph) to this agreement or to a part or provision of this agreement includes, where the agreement is varied, a reference to this agreement or that part or provision as varied;
    (b) a reference to a clause is to the relevant clause of this agreement;
    (c) a reference to a sub‑clause is to the relevant sub‑clause of the clause in which the reference appears;
    (d) a reference to a paragraph, if no clause is specified, is to the relevant paragraph of the clause in which the reference appears, and a reference to a sub‑paragraph, if no paragraph is specified, is to the relevant sub‑paragraph of the paragraph in which the reference appears;
    (e) words in the singular include the plural and words in the plural include the singular; and
    (f) words importing a gender include every other gender.

PART III—THE PROGRAM AND THE OBJECTIVE

5. (1) The Commonwealth and the State shall jointly establish a Home and Community Care Program which shall be administered in accordance with the provisions of this agreement and within available resources and which shall have the following principles and goals—
    (a) to promote the provision of a comprehensive and integrated range of home and community care designed to provide basic maintenance and support services, both directly and through their carers, to persons within the target population and thereby to assist them to enhance their independence in the community and avoid their premature or inappropriate admission to long term residential care;
    (b) to expand and develop home and community care services through the joint co‑operation of