Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00071:reg:4:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00071
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 4 (pt 1/5)
Character Range: 13319–16118

4  Definitions
  In these principles:
1997 scheme service: see section 64.
2001 scheme service: see section 65.
2005 scheme service: see section 66.
2017 scheme service: see section 66A.
ACAP code, in relation to a health condition specified in the table in Schedule 1, means the Aged Care Assessment Program code specified in the table for that health condition.
accepted mental health condition means a mental health condition for which:
 (a) the Repatriation Commission has accepted liability to pay a pension under the Veterans' Entitlements Act; or
 (b) the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission has accepted liability to pay compensation under the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004 or the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988.
accessible location means a location that has an ARIA value of more than 1.84 but no more than 3.51.
accommodation wing, of a residential care service, includes any of the following:
 (a) a building;
 (b) a floor or level of a building;
 (c) an annex to a building;
that is used to provide accommodation for a care recipient being provided with residential care through the service.
accreditation application means an application under section 27 of the Quality and Safety Commission Rules.
Act means the Aged Care Act 1997.
ARIA value, in relation to a location, means the value given to that location in accordance with the methodology set out in the document titled Measuring Remoteness: Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia (ARIA), Revised Edition, Occasional Papers: New Series Number 14, published by the Health Department in October 2001, as the document existed on 1 August 2013.
Note: In 2014, the Measuring Remoteness: Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia (ARIA) was accessible at http://www.health.gov.au.
assisted resident has the meaning given by clause 1 of Schedule 1 to the Aged Care (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997.
Australian accounting standards means the accounting standards in force under section 334 of the Corporations Act 2001.
Note: In 2014, the Australian accounting standards were accessible at http://www.aasb.gov.au.
available home care fees amount has the meaning given by section 99A.
care recipient's room, in a residential care service:
 (a) means a room, or a part of a room, in the service that:
 (i) is intended to be occupied as personal space by an individual care recipient; and
 (ii) contains a bed to be used by the care recipient; and
 (b) includes:
 (i) the areas that are in the immediate vicinity of the bed in the room or the part of the room; and
 (ii) the contents of the room or the part of the room; and
 (iii) an ensuite, or a shared bathroom and toilet, that is for the use of a care recipient being provided with accommodation in the room or the part of