Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00143:section:2:p7
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00143
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 2 (pt 7/9)
Character Range: 151017–153801

residential care service;
 (g) the daily amount at which the accommodation charge accrues must not exceed the maximum provided for by section 57A‑6 or 57A‑8A or paragraph 57A‑9(1)(b) and the care recipient must not be charged more than one accommodation charge in respect of entering the service;
 (h) the accommodation charge must not accrue for any day in contravention of the requirements of section 57A‑7 (which deals with cessation of the provision of care);
 (i) the accommodation charge must not be charged if a determination is in force under paragraph 57A‑9(1)(a) that paying an accommodation charge would cause the care recipient financial hardship;
 (j) the approved provider must comply with the requirements of section 57A‑11 relating to payment of the accommodation charge;
 (k) the care recipient may be required in accordance with section 57A‑12 to pay interest to the approved provider if some or all of the accommodation charge is not paid within the time that section permits;
 (m) the approved provider must not charge an accommodation charge if:
 (i) a sanction has been imposed on the approved provider under section 63N of the *Quality and Safety Commission Act; and
 (ii) the sanction prohibits the charging of an accommodation charge for the entry;
 (n) any other rules specified in the Aged Care (Transitional Provisions) Principles.
 (2) If, at the end of the 21 days mentioned in paragraph (1)(e):
 (a) the approved provider and the care recipient have not entered into an *accommodation charge agreement; and
 (b) a process under a law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory has begun for a person (other than an approved provider) to be appointed, by reason that the care recipient has a mental impairment, as the care recipient's legal representative;
the time limit in that paragraph is extended until the end of 7 days after:
 (c) the appointment is made; or
 (d) a decision is made not to make the appointment; or
 (e) the process ends for some other reason;
or for such further period as the Secretary allows, having regard to any matters specified in the Aged Care (Transitional Provisions) Principles.

Subdivision 57A‑B—Accommodation charge agreements

57A‑3  Contents of accommodation charge agreements
 (1) An agreement between an approved provider and a person proposing to *enter, or having entered, as a care recipient to a residential care service through which the approved provider provides care is an accommodation charge agreement if it sets out the following:
 (a) the amount of the *accommodation charge that:
 (i) will accrue for each day (including a day on which the care recipient is on *leave from the residential care service) if the care recipient enters the service; or
 (ii) if the care recipient has already entered the