2016
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first time
Aged Care (Living Longer Living Better) Amendment (Review) Bill 2016
No. , 2016
(Ms Collins)
A Bill for an Act to amend the Aged Care (Living Longer Living Better) Act 2013 to require a review of various matters, and for related purposes
Contents
1............ Short title............................................................................................. 1
2............ Commencement................................................................................... 2
3............ Schedules............................................................................................ 2
Schedule 1—Amendments 3
Aged Care (Living Longer Living Better) Act 2013 3
A Bill for an Act to amend the Aged Care (Living Longer Living Better) Act 2013 to require a review of various matters, and for related purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title
This Act is the Aged Care (Living Longer Living Better) Amendment (Review) Act 2016.
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.
| Commencement information |
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
| Provisions | Commencement | Date/Details |
| 1. The whole of this Act | The day this Act receives the Royal Assent. | |
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted.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Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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 (Living Longer Living Better) Act 2013
1 After subsection 4(2)
Insert:
(2A) The Minister must cause an independent review to be undertaken of the operation of:
(a) Part 2.4 of the Aged Care Act 1997; and
(b) the Classification Principles 2014; and
(c) the Aged Care Funding Instrument.
(2B) The review must consider at least the following matters:
(a) whether the way in which care recipients are classified provides a reliable assessment of the care needs of care recipients;
(b) whether the classification of care recipients, and the way in which care recipients are classified, results in a fair and adequate payment of residential care subsidy and flexible care subsidy in relation to those care recipients;
(c) whether there are better alternative models for the payments of residential care subsidy and flexible care subsidy in relation to care recipients.