Aged Care (Accommodation Payment Security) Levy Amendment Act 2025

No. 43, 2025

An Act to amend the Aged Care (Accommodation Payment Security) Levy Act 2006, and for related purposes

Contents

1 Short title

2 Commencement

3 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Aged Care (Accommodation Payment Security) Levy Act 2006

Aged Care (Accommodation Payment Security) Levy Amendment Act 2025

No. 43, 2025

An Act to amend the Aged Care (Accommodation Payment Security) Levy Act 2006, and for related purposes

[Assented to 5 September 2025]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1  Short title

  This Act is the Aged Care (Accommodation Payment Security) Levy Amendment Act 2025.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.

3  Schedules

  Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Aged Care (Accommodation Payment Security) Levy Act 2006

1  Section 5 (definition of approved provider)

Repeal the definition.

2  Section 5

Insert:

registered provider has the same meaning as in the Aged Care Act 2024.

3  Subsection 6(1)

Omit “approved providers”, substitute “registered providers”.

4  Subsection 6(2)

Omit “approved providers”, substitute “registered providers”.

5  Subsection 6(2)

Omit “approved providers”, substitute “registered providers”.

6  Section 9 (heading)

Omit “approved providers”, substitute “registered providers”.

7  Section 9

Omit “approved providers” (wherever occurring), substitute “registered providers”.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 24 July 2025

Senate on 31 July 2025]