Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2017C00106:section:5:p21
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2017C00106
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 5 (pt 21/24)
Character Range: 55186–58013

financial assistance to the State where the State fails to comply with any of the conditions attached to the grant of financial assistance until the State remedies that failure.

PART VII—SUPPLY OF INFORMATION

30. (1) As soon as practicable after this agreement enters into force, the Commonwealth Minister and the State Minister shall make arrangements for the development during the first 3 grant years of a home and community care information system (including the development of standard definitions of services and collection methods) for the purpose of effective planning and management of the program which can meet operating agency requirements.

(2) Having regard to clauses 10 and 11, the State shall collect and provide such information as the Commonwealth Minister and the State Minister agree is necessary for the operation of the information system.

(3) Pending the establishment of the information system, each party shall furnish to the other party such available information as the other party from time to time requires for the purposes of monitoring and reviewing the operation of the program.

(4) The Commonwealth Minister may make arrangements with the State Minister for the Commonwealth to provide assistance to the State in the collection and provision of information.

(5) In specifying the Commonwealth requirements for data collection and the development of an information system, the Commonwealth Minister shall have regard to the administrative practices and procedures of the State and shall ensure that collection requirements and provision of data by the State are kept to a minimum.

(6) In developing an information system pursuant to sub‑clause (1) and in arranging for the collection and provision of information pursuant to sub‑clause (2), the Commonwealth Minister and the State Minister shall have regard to the views of local governments and community organisations involved in service delivery and users in the design and implementation of the system and ensure that, where appropriate, information so collected is made available to those bodies.

PART VIII—REVIEW AND VARIATION

31. The operation of this agreement may be reviewed at any time (other than during the first 2 grant years) agreed upon by the Commonwealth Minister and the State Minister but, in any event, it shall be reviewed during every third grant year. If, upon undertaking a review, the parties agree to vary the operation of the agreement, then the agreement may be varied in the manner provided in clause 32, but should the parties fail to agree on the continued operation of this agreement then this agreement shall terminate at the end of the second succeeding grant year.

32. (1) The provisions of this agreement may be varied at any time by a further agreement in writing.

(2) A copy of an agreement or