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AGED CARE (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) ACT 1997 - SECT 96.5

Care recipients etc. lacking capacity to enter agreements

    If:

  (a)   this Act provides for an approved provider and a care recipient, or a person proposing to enter an * aged care service, to enter into an agreement; and

  (b)   the care recipient or person is, because of any physical incapacity or mental impairment, unable to enter into the agreement;

another person (other than an approved provider) representing the care recipient or person may enter into the agreement on behalf of the care recipient or person.

Note:   The agreements provided for in this Act are * accommodation bond agreements and accommodation charge agreements.



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