Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AGED CARE ACT 1997 - SECT 56.1

    The responsibilities of an approved provider in relation to a care recipient to whom the approved provider provides, or is to provide, residential care are as follows:

  (a)   if the care recipient is not a * continuing care recipient:

  (i)   to charge no more for provision of the care and services that it is the approved provider's responsibility to provide under paragraph   54 - 1(1)(a) than the amount permitted under Division   52C; and

  (ii)   to comply with the other rules relating to resident fees set out in section   52C - 2; and

  (iii)   to comply with the requirements of Part   3A.2 in relation to any * accommodation payment or * accommodation contribution charged to the care recipient;

  (b)   if the care recipient is a continuing care recipient:

  (i)   to charge no more for provision of the care and services that it is the approved provider's responsibility to provide under paragraph   54 - 1(1)(a) than the amount permitted under Division   58 of the Aged Care (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997 ; and

  (ii)   to comply with the other rules relating to resident fees set out in section   58 - 1 of the Aged Care (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997 ; and

  (iii)   to comply with Division   57 of the Aged Care (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997 in relation to any * accommodation bond, and Division   57A of that Act in relation to any * accommodation charge, charged to the care recipient;

  (c)   in relation to an * entry contribution given or loaned under a * formal agreement binding the approved provider and the care recipient--to comply with the requirements of:

  (i)   the Prudential Standards made under section   52M - 1; and

  (ii)   the Aged Care (Transitional Provisions) Principles made under the Aged Care (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997 ;

  (d)   to charge no more than the amount permitted under the Fees and Payments Principles by way of a booking fee for * respite care;

  (e)   to charge no more for any other care or services than an amount agreed beforehand with the care recipient, and to give the care recipient an itemised account of the other care or services;

  (f)   to provide such security of tenure for the care recipient's * place in the service as is specified in the User Rights Principles;

  (g)   to comply with the requirements of Division   36 in relation to * extra service agreements;

  (ga)   to comply with the requirements of Part   3A.3 in relation to managing * refundable deposits, accommodation bonds and entry contributions;

  (h)   to offer to enter into a * resident agreement with the care recipient, and, if the care recipient wishes, to enter into such an agreement;

  (i)   to comply with the requirements of Division   62 in relation to * personal information relating to the care recipient;

  (j)   to comply with the requirements of section   56 - 4 in relation to resolution of complaints;

  (k)   to allow people acting for care recipients to have such access to the service as is specified in the User Rights Principles;

  (l)   to allow people acting for bodies that have been paid * advocacy grants under Part   5.5, or * community visitors grants under Part   5.6, to have such access to the service as is specified in the User Rights Principles;

  (m)   not to act in a way which is inconsistent with any rights and responsibilities of care recipients that are specified in the User Rights Principles;

  (n)   such other responsibilities as are specified in the Fees and Payments Principles and the User Rights Principles.