Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) The Secretary may, in respect of * residential care subsidy and * flexible care subsidy, distribute for the financial year the * places * available for allocation in a State or Territory among the * regions within the State or Territory.
Note: * Regions are determined under section 12 - 6.
(2) In distributing the places, the Secretary must comply with any requirements specified in the Allocation Principles.
(3) If, in respect of * residential care subsidy or * flexible care subsidy:
(a) the Secretary does not, under subsection (1), distribute for the financial year the * places * available for allocation in the State or Territory; or
(b) the whole of the State or Territory comprises one * region;
the Secretary is taken to have distributed for that year the places to the whole of the State or Territory as one region.