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AGED CARE ACT 1997 - SECT 46.1

Eligibility for home care subsidy

  (1)   An approved provider is eligible for * home care subsidy in respect of a day if the Secretary is satisfied that:

  (a)   the approval of the approved provider is in respect of home care; and

  (b)   on that day there is in force a * home care agreement under which a care recipient approved under Part   2.3 in respect of home care is to be provided with home care by the approved provider through a home care service; and

  (c)   the home care service is a notified home care service; and

  (d)   the care recipient is a * prioritised home care recipient; and

  (e)   on that day the approved provider provides the care recipient with such home care (if any) as is required under the home care agreement; and

  (f)   the approved provider has agreed in the claim relating to the day to deal with the care recipient's * unspent home care amount in accordance with the User Rights Principles.

Note:   Eligibility may also be affected by Division   7 (relating to a person's approval as a provider of * aged care services) or Division   20 (relating to a person's approval as a recipient of home care).

  (2)   For the purposes of paragraph   (1)(c), a home care service is a notified home care service if the approved provider has notified the Secretary of the information required by section   9 - 1A in relation to the home care service.



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