Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AGED CARE ACT 1997 - SECT 52C.5

    If:

  (a)   a care recipient is absent from a residential care service on a particular day; and

  (b)   the care recipient is not on * leave from the residential care service on that day; and

  (ba)   the care recipient would have been on leave from the residential care service on that day under subsection   42 - 2(3) except that the care recipient had previously been on leave under that subsection, during the current financial year, for 52 days;

the maximum fee in respect of a day that can be charged for reserving a place in the residential care service for that day is the amount:

  (c)   determined by the Minister by legislative instrument; or

  (d)   worked out in accordance with a method determined by the Minister by legislative instrument.