Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2019A00116:clause:1_63f
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2019A00116
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 63F
Character Range: 24314–25914

63F  States, Territories and local government etc. taken to be approved providers etc.
 (1) Subject to subsection (3), a person or body of the following kind (the entity) may give the Commissioner a written notice requesting that this section applies in relation to the entity:
 (a) a State or Territory;
 (b) a State or Territory authority;
 (c) a local government authority.
 (2) If the entity gives the Commissioner a notice under subsection (1), each of the following apply for the purposes of this Act, the rules, the Aged Care Act and the Aged Care Principles:
 (a) the entity is taken to be an approved provider;
 (b) the approval of the entity is taken to come into effect on the first day after the day the notice is received by the Commissioner;
 (c) the approval of the entity is taken to be in respect of:
 (i) all types of aged care; and
 (ii) all types of aged care services that are provided, or will be provided, by the entity.
Note: As the entity is an approved provider, the entity's approval may be suspended or revoked under Division 4 of this Part, or Part 7B, of this Act.
 (3) If:
 (a) an entity is taken to be an approved provider under paragraph (2)(a); and
 (b) the approval of the entity is revoked under Division 4 of this Part or Part 7B;
then:
 (c) the entity is not permitted to give the Commissioner another notice under subsection (1); and
 (d) if the entity subsequently applies under section 63B for approval as a provider of aged care—the entity is taken, for the purposes of the application, to be a corporation.

Division 4—Cessation and revocation of approval