Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00074:reg:19b
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00074
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 19B
Character Range: 40771–43395

19B  Notice of common care and services and prices and fees
 (1) An approved provider of home care must give to the Secretary a written notice of the following information:
 (a) the price that the approved provider charges care recipients to whom the approved provider provides, or is to provide, home care, for providing each of the following kinds of care and services:
 (i) personal care;
 (ii) nursing by a registered nurse;
 (iii) cleaning and household tasks;
 (iv) light gardening;
 (v) in‑home respite care;
 (vi) care management;
 (b) the price per kilometre (if any) that the approved provider charges care recipients to whom the approved provider provides, or is to provide, home care, for travel to a care recipient for the purpose of providing care or services;
 (d) the price that the approved provider charges care recipients to whom the approved provider provides, or is to provide, home care, for package management;
 (e) the amount (if any) of the basic daily care fee under section 52D‑3 of the Act that the approved provider charges care recipients (other than continuing home care recipients) to whom the approved provider provides, or is to provide, home care;
 (f) the amount (if any) of the daily amount of home care fees that the approved provider charges continuing home care recipients to whom the approved provider provides, or is to provide, home care in accordance with Division 60 of the Aged Care (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997; and
 (g) contact details for further information about the approved provider's prices and fees.
 (2) The notice must be given to the Secretary:
 (a) for a person or body who is an approved provider of home care on the day before this section commences—before 1 July 2019; and
 (b) for a person or body who becomes an approved provider of home care on or after the day this section commences but before 1 July 2019—before the later of the following:
 (i) 1 July 2019;
 (ii) offering to enter into a home care agreement with a care recipient; and
 (c) for a person or body who becomes an approved provider of home care on or after 1 July 2019—before offering to enter into a home care agreement with a care recipient.
 (3) If there is a change to the information in a notice given to the Secretary under subsection (1), the approved provider must give the Secretary an updated notice.
 (4) A notice under subsection (1) or (3) must be given in a form approved, in writing, by the Secretary.
Note: The Secretary may make the information in a notice under subsection (1) or (3) publicly available—see section 86‑9 of the Act and the Information Principles 2014.