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Aged Care Act 2024

No. 104, 2024

An Act about aged care, and for related purposes

Contents
Chapter 1—Introduction
Part 1—Preliminary
1 Short title
2 Commencement
3 Act binds the Crown
4 Extension to external Territories
5 Objects of this Act
6 Simplified outline of this Act
Part 2—Definitions and key concepts
Division 1—Definitions
7 Definitions
Division 2—Key concepts
8 Aged care service list
9 Funded aged care services and who they are delivered to
10 Where funded aged care services are delivered
11 Who delivers funded aged care services
12 Meaning of responsible person
13 Meaning of suitability matters in relation to an individual
14 Aged Care Code of Conduct
15 Aged Care Quality Standards
16 Meaning of reportable incident
17 Restrictive practice in relation to an individual
18 Restrictive practice requirements
19 Meaning of significant failure and systematic pattern of conduct
20 Meaning of high quality care
21 Meaning of protected information
22 Meaning of dependent child
Part 3—Aged care rights and principles
Division 1—Aged care rights
23 Statement of Rights
24 Effect of Statement of Rights
Division 2—Aged care principles
25 Statement of Principles
26 Effect of Statement of Principles
Part 4—Supporters
Division 1—Actions and duties of supporters
27 Actions of supporters
28 Role of guardians etc
29 Giving information and documents to supporters
30 Duties of supporters
31 Duty to inform of matters affecting ability or capacity to act as supporter
32 When there is no breach of duty
33 Concurrent operation of State and Territory laws
Division 2—Protections relating to supporters
34 Protection of individual against liability for actions of supporter
35 Protection of supporter against liability
36 Offence for abuse of position as supporter
Division 3—Registration of supporters
37 Registration of supporters
38 Notice of decision not to register a person as a supporter
39 Notification of registration of supporter in circumstances where individual has not consented to registration
40 Content of notice of registration
41 Effect of registration as a supporter
42 Period of effect of registration
Division 5—Suspensions and cancellations of registration
49 Suspension of registration
50 Notice and decisions following suspension of registration
51 Cancellation of registration following suspension, or revoking suspension
52 Cancellation of registration of supporter on request by supporter
53 Cancellation of registration of supporter on request by individual
54 Notification of cancellation of registration
Chapter 2—Entry to the Commonwealth aged care system
Part 1—Introduction
55 Simplified outline of this Chapter
Part 2—Eligibility for entry
Division 1—Applying for access to funded aged care services
56 Requirements for applications
57 System Governor must decide whether to make determination
58 Eligibility determination for an aged care needs assessment
59 Notice of decision not to make a determination
60 Period of