Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AGED CARE ACT 1997 - SECT 81.1

  (1)   The Secretary may, on behalf of the Commonwealth, enter into a written agreement with a body corporate under which the Commonwealth makes one or more grants of money to the body for the following purposes:

  (a)   encouraging understanding of, and knowledge about, the rights of recipients and potential recipients of * aged care services on the part of people who are, or may become:

  (i)   care recipients; or

  (ii)   people caring for care recipients; or

  (iii)   people who provide aged care services;

    or on the part of the general community;

  (b)   enabling care recipients to exercise those rights;

  (c)   providing free, independent and confidential advocacy services in relation to those rights to people:

  (i)   who are, or may become, care recipients; or

  (ii)   who are representatives of care recipients.

A grant of money under this subsection is an advocacy grant .

  (2)   An * advocacy grant is payable to a body:

  (a)   at such time as is specified in the agreement; and

  (b)   in full or in such instalments as are specified in the agreement.