248Eligibility for subsidy

248  Eligibility for subsidy

  A registered provider is eligible for subsidy on a day in relation to the delivery of funded aged care services to individuals through a service group under a specialist aged care program if, on that day:

 (i) the registered provider has an agreement under subsection 247(1) with the Commonwealth that includes the service group; or

 (ii) the registered provider is in a State or Territory that has an agreement under subsection 247(1) with the Commonwealth; and

 (b) one or more places have been allocated to the registered provider for the service group for the program under section 95 and are being, or are able to be, used to deliver funded aged care services to those individuals; and

 (c) those places are in effect and all the conditions that apply to those places under section 99 have been met for the delivery of any funded aged care services to those individuals.

Note: A registered provider may be eligible for subsidy for a day under this provision even if the registered provider did not deliver any funded aged care services to individuals on that day.