Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AGED CARE QUALITY AND SAFETY COMMISSION ACT 2018 - SECT 63F

  (1)   Subject to subsection   (3), a person or body of the following kind (the entity ) may give the Commissioner a written notice requesting that this section applies in relation to the entity:

  (a)   a State or Territory;

  (b)   a State or Territory authority;

  (c)   a local government authority.

  (2)   If the entity gives the Commissioner a notice under subsection   (1), each of the following apply for the purposes of this Act, the rules, the Aged Care Act and the Aged Care Principles:

  (a)   the entity is taken to be an approved provider;

  (b)   the approval of the entity is taken to come into effect on the first day after the day the notice is received by the Commissioner;

  (c)   the approval of the entity is taken to be in respect of:

  (i)   all types of aged care; and

  (ii)   all types of aged care services that are provided, or will be provided, by the entity.

Note:   As the entity is an approved provider, the entity's approval may be suspended or revoked under Division   4 of this Part, or Part   7B, of this Act.

  (3)   If:

  (a)   an entity is taken to be an approved provider under paragraph   (2)(a); and

  (b)   the approval of the entity is revoked under Division   4 of this Part or Part   7B;

then:

  (c)   the entity is not permitted to give the Commissioner another notice under subsection   (1); and

  (d)   if the entity subsequently applies under section   63B for approval as a provider of aged care--the entity is taken, for the purposes of the application, to be a corporation.