Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A00406:clause:1_198aa
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A00406
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 198AA
Character Range: 12115–13023

198AA  Qualification for carer payment—hospitalisation

 (1) If:
 (a) a person (the carer) is participating in the care of a disabled adult, a profoundly disabled child, a disabled child, or a dependent child of a disabled adult, (the hospitalised person) in hospital; and
 (b) it is reasonable to assume that, if the hospitalised person were not in hospital, the carer would qualify for carer payment for the hospitalised person or for the hospitalised person and another person or persons; and
 (c) either:
 (i) the hospitalised person is terminally ill; or
 (ii) it is reasonable to expect that he or she will reside in his or her private home upon leaving hospital;
then the carer qualifies for carer payment.

Limit on qualification under subsection (1)

 (2) However, the period, or the sum of the periods, for which the person can be qualified under subsection (1) is 63 days in any calendar year.