{"id":"F2025L01477","name":"Aged Care (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) (Registration of Entities) Determination 2025 (No. 2)","slug":"aged-care-consequential-and-transitional-provisions-registration-of-entities-determination-2025-no-2","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":443063,"registerId":"F2025L01477-fast-fetch-1775957972839","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-12","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Aged Care (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) (Registration of Entities) Determination 2025 (No. 2)","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\n---\n\n![Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia](image.001.jpeg)\n\n \n\nAged Care (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) (Registration of Entities) Determination 2025 (No. 2)\n\nI, Sonja Stewart, Deputy Secretary of the Ageing and Aged Care Group of the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing, make the following determination.\n\nDated   18 November 2025\n\nSonja Stewart\n\nDeputy Secretary of the Ageing and Aged Care Group of the Department of Health, Disability, and Ageing\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\nContents\n\n1  Name\n\n2  Commencement\n\n3  Authority\n\n4  Definitions\n\n5  Deemed registration periods and approved residential care homes for deemed registered providers\n\nSchedule 1—Details of deemed registration of entities\n\n \n\n1  Name\n\n  This instrument is the Aged Care (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) (Registration of Entities) Determination 2025 (No. 2).\n\n2  Commencement\n\n (1)  Each provision of this instrument 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.\n\n \n\n- Commencement information\n- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3\n- Provisions Commencement Date/Details\n- 1. The whole of this instrument 1 November 2025. 1 November 2025\n\n\nNote: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.\n\n (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.\n\n3  Authority\n\n  This instrument is made under item 5 of Schedule 2 to the Aged Care (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2024.\n\n4  Definitions\n\n (1) In this instrument:\n\nCTP Act means the Aged Care (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2024.\n\n (2) An expression used in a provision of this instrument and defined in subitem 1(1) of Schedule 2 to the CTP Act has the same meaning in that provision as it has in that Schedule.\n\nNote:  The following expressions used in this instrument are defined in subitem 1(1) of Schedule 2 to the CTP Act:\n\n(a) new Act;\n\n(b) new law;\n\n(c) old Act;\n\n(d) old law;\n\n(e) transitional rules;\n\n(f) transition time.\n\n (3) An expression used in a provision of this instrument and in the new law has the same meaning in that provision as it has in the new law, subject to subsection (4).\n\n (4) An expression used in a provision of this instrument and in the old law has the same meaning in that provision as it had in the old law to the extent that:\n\n (a) the use of the expression in that provision relates to an event that occurred, or a state of affairs that existed, under the old law before the transition time; or\n\n (b) the provision has the effect that a provision of the old law continues to apply despite the repeal of the old law.\n\n5  Deemed registration periods and any approved residential care homes for deemed registered providers\n\n  For the purposes of subitems 5(3), (7) and (11) of Schedule 2 to the CTP Act, for an entity specified in Column 1 of an item of the table in Schedule 1 to this instrument:\n\n (a) the period that is taken to be the entity’s registration period for the purposes of section 115 of the new Act is the period between the registration start day specified in Column 3 of the item and the registration end day specified in Column 4 of the item; and\n\n (b) the places that are taken to be, or be part of, an approved residential care home in relation to the entity for the purposes of paragraph 105(1)(b) and section 112 of the new Act are each of the places (if any) specified in Column 5 of the item; and\n\n (c) the total number of beds for each approved residential care home is the number of beds (if any) specified in Column 5 of the item.\n\nNote: Subitem 5(1) of Schedule 2 to the CTP Act relates to the deeming of entities as registered providers.\n\nSchedule 1—Details of deemed registration of entities\n\n| Item | Column 1  Name of entity | Column 2  ABN | Column 3  Registration start day | Column 4  Registration end day | Column 5  Name and address of place or places, and number of beds per place (if applicable) |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | ALC Home Care Pty Ltd | 63664605001 | 1/11/2025 | 28/10/2027 | N/A |\n| 2 | Altido Consulting Services Pty Ltd | 98625827714 | 1/11/2025 | 28/09/2027 | N/A |\n| 3 | Ardrossan Community Hospital Inc | 17142913461 | 1/11/2025 | 28/05/2027 | N/A |\n| 4 | East Coast Care No.8 Pty Ltd | 67608355880 | 1/11/2025 | 28/09/2027 | N/A |\n| 5 | Encore Care Operations Pty Ltd | 22614857564 | 1/11/2025 | 28/06/2027 | N/A |\n\n\n \n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"A positive credit balance is required for all requests, including BYOK, so fallback providers remain available. Add credits at https://vercel.com/d?to=%2F%5Bteam%5D%2F%7E%2Fai%3Fmodal%3Dtop-up to continue.","source":"analysis-cron"},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This instrument performs exactly the narrow transitional function it was designed for. It does not expand beyond the original purpose of the parent Act, which was to manage the transition from old to new aged care legislation. The scope is tightly constrained to listing specific entities and their temporary registration periods."},"complexity_factors":["Very short instrument — only 5 substantive sections plus a schedule table","Minimal defined terms (only 'CTP Act' explicitly defined; others imported by reference)","Simple tabular format for operational data (the five entities and their dates)","No nested conditions, exceptions, or cross-referencing beyond basic incorporation of definitions from parent legislation","Straightforward deeming provision — essentially 'these five companies are registered for these specific periods'","No discretionary powers or subjective decision-making criteria"],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument grants temporary, automatic aged‑care registration from 1 November 2025 to five named providers (ALC Home Care, Altido Consulting Services, Ardrossan Community Hospital, East Coast Care No.8 and Encore Care Operations) while they transition into the new Aged Care Act 2024 system.  \n\nIt preserves legal authority to deliver services until each provider’s specified expiry in 2027, preventing gaps in care for older Australians and supporting an orderly regulatory shift overseen by the Department of Health."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The instrument does not alter the scope of the transitional scheme in the CTP Act. It applies the existing deeming power in item 5 of Schedule 2 by specifying registration periods and any approved residential-care places for the named entities, without adding new categories or removing entities from the statutory scheme (see s 3, s 5 and Schedule 1)."},"complexity_factors":["Direct cross-references to the CTP Act and to the new Act (sections 115, 105(1)(b) and 112) require readers to consult multiple instruments to understand legal effects (see s 3 and s 5).","Deeming approach: the instrument does not create new substantive rules but applies transitional deeming for particular entities, which is conceptually simpler but legally technical (s 5 and Schedule 1).","Variable entry-by-entry specifications (different registration end dates per entity) increase administrative complexity for regulators and providers (Schedule 1, Columns 3–4).","Dependence on external definitions: key terms (eg. \"registration start day\", \"approved residential care home\", \"new law\") are defined elsewhere, so full interpretation depends on other texts (s 4(2)–(4)).","Sparse place/bed information: many items list 'N/A' for places/beds, which could require separate administrative records to confirm operational details (Schedule 1, Column 5).","Implementation tasks: regulators must treat listed entities as registered for specified periods, affecting enrolment, compliance monitoring and funding calculations."],"plain_english_summary":"This determination declares specific companies and organisations to be \"deemed registered providers\" under the Aged Care (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2024, fixing each listed entity’s registration start and end dates and, where specified, approved residential-care places and bed numbers. It takes effect on 1 November 2025.\n\nThe measure directly affects the named providers by treating them as registered for those dates, which determines their regulatory status, obligations and funding eligibility under the new aged care law during the transition; compliance and administrative effects fall on those entities."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/aged-care-consequential-and-transitional-provisions-registration-of-entities-determination-2025-no-2","history":"/api/acts/aged-care-consequential-and-transitional-provisions-registration-of-entities-determination-2025-no-2/history","analysis":"/api/acts/aged-care-consequential-and-transitional-provisions-registration-of-entities-determination-2025-no-2/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/aged-care-consequential-and-transitional-provisions-registration-of-entities-determination-2025-no-2/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/aged-care-consequential-and-transitional-provisions-registration-of-entities-determination-2025-no-2/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/aged-care-consequential-and-transitional-provisions-registration-of-entities-determination-2025-no-2/documents"}}