166Other reports by registered providers

166  Other reports by registered providers

Requirement to report

 (1) A registered provider of a kind prescribed by the rules must, if the rules prescribe that a report must be given to one of the following persons, give a report to that person in accordance with this section:

 (b) the Complaints Commissioner;

 (c) the Inspector‑General of Aged Care;

 (d) the System Governor;

 (e) the Pricing Authority.

 (2) A report under subsection (1) must:

 (a) if the rules prescribe information that must be included in the report:

 (i) include that information; and

 (ii) be in the approved report form (if any); and

 (b) if paragraph (a) does not apply—be in the approved report form; and

 (c) in any case—be prepared, and given, in accordance with any other requirements prescribed by the rules.

Note: For approved report form, see section 166A.

Prescribed information

 (3) Without limiting paragraph (2)(a), the rules may prescribe information relating to any of the following:

 (a) complaints and feedback received by a registered provider;

 (b) the workforce, and governance, of a registered provider;

 (c) compliance by a registered provider with requirements relating to nursing services;

 (d) locations at which funded aged care services are delivered by a registered provider;

 (e) specified groups of individuals to whom a registered provider is delivering funded aged care services;

 (f) how specified funded aged care services are delivered;

 (g) specified financial and prudential matters.

Prescribed requirements relating to preparing and giving reports

 (4) Without limiting paragraph (2)(c), the rules may prescribe requirements relating to either of the following:

 (a) the collection or generation of information prescribed for the purposes of paragraph (2)(a) (including requirements relating to making particular measurements or assessments in connection with that collection or generation);

 (b) reporting periods and the timeframes within which a report must be given in relation to those reporting periods (including by providing that a prescribed reporting period or timeframe is subject to an exemption determined by the System Governor in accordance with the rules).

Requirement to publish reports

 (5) If the rules prescribe that a report given by a registered provider under subsection (1) must be published, the registered provider must publish the report in accordance with any requirements prescribed by the rules.