Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00074:reg:8
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00074
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 8
Character Range: 20248–21257

8  Access to residential care service by people acting for care recipients, advocates and community visitors

Access by people acting for care recipients
 (1) For paragraph 56‑1(k) of the Act, if a care recipient in a residential care service has asked a person to act for the care recipient, the approved provider of the service must allow the person access to the service at any time.

Access by advocates and community visitors
 (2) For paragraph 56‑1(l) of the Act, an approved provider of a residential care service must allow a person mentioned in subsection (3) access to the service:
 (a) during normal business hours; or
 (b) if a care recipient to whom the provider provides residential care has asked the person to assist the care recipient—at any time.
 (3) For subsection (2), the persons are the following:
 (a) a person acting as an advocate for a body that has been paid an advocacy grant;
 (b) a person acting as a community visitor for a body that has been paid a community visitors grant.