282Fees for reserving a bed—ongoing residential care

282  Fees for reserving a bed—ongoing residential care

 (1) A registered provider delivering ongoing funded aged care services through the service group residential care to an individual in an approved residential care home may charge the individual an amount (the bed reservation fee) for a day to reserve a bed if subsection (2) applies to the individual on that day.

 (2) This subsection applies to the individual on the day if the individual:

 (a) is absent from the approved residential care home on the day; and

 (b) is not on leave from the approved residential care home on the day (see section 244); and

 (c) would have been on social leave from the approved residential care home on the day except that the individual has previously been on social leave during the current financial year for 52 days.

Note: The registered provider is taken not to be delivering funded aged care services to the individual on a day if subsection (2) applies to the individual on the day, so section 276 does not apply to the day.

 (3) The maximum amount of the bed reservation fee that the registered provider may charge the individual under this section for the day is the amount worked out in accordance with the rules.