Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00143:section:10:p16
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00143
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 10 (pt 16/50)
Character Range: 49621–52287

a care recipient for *entry to a residential care service;
 (b) the value of assets held by a care recipient;
 (c) whether the residential care with which a care recipient is provided is *respite care;
 (d) any other matters specified in the Aged Care (Transitional Provisions) Principles.

44‑7  Meaning of concessional resident

If the applicable time is before 1 July 2005
 (1) A person is a concessional resident if the person is being provided with residential care (other than *respite care) through a residential care service, the applicable time under subsection (2) is before 1 July 2005 and, at the applicable time:
 (a) the person was receiving an *income support payment; and
 (b) the person had not been a *homeowner for 2 years or more, or owned a home that was occupied by:
 (i) the *partner or a *dependent child of the person; or
 (ii) a carer of the person who had occupied the home for the past 2 years and, at the entry time, was eligible to receive an income support payment; or
 (iii) a *close relation of the person who had occupied the home for the past 5 years and, at the entry time, was eligible to receive an income support payment; and
 (c) the value of the person's assets was less than:
 (i) the amount obtained by rounding to the nearest $500.00 (rounding $250.00 upwards) an amount equal to 2.5 times the *basic age pension amount at the time in question; or
 (ii) such other amount as is specified in, or worked out in accordance with, the Aged Care (Transitional Provisions) Principles.
Note: A *concessional resident cannot be required to pay an *accommodation bond or an *accommodation charge—see sections 57‑12 and 57A‑6.

If the applicable time is on or after 1 July 2005
 (1A) A person is also a concessional resident if:
 (a) the person is being provided with residential care (other than *respite care) through a residential care service; and
 (b) the applicable time under subsection (2) is on or after 1 July 2005; and
 (c) the person is a *pre‑2008 reform resident; and
 (d) there is in force a determination covered by subsection (1B) or (1C).
 (1B) Subject to subsection (1D), this subsection covers a determination, made under section 44‑8AA before the person *entered the residential care service, that the conditions in paragraphs (1)(a), (b) and (c) would have been met for the person at the time specified in the determination if the references in subparagraphs (1)(b)(ii) and (iii) to the entry time had been references to the time specified in the determination.
 (1C) Subject to subsection (1E), this subsection covers a determination, made under section 44‑8AA when or after the person *entered the residential