508System Governor may conduct assurance activities

508  System Governor may conduct assurance activities

 (1) The System Governor may conduct activities (assurance activities) for the purposes of the System Governor’s functions.

 (2) Without limiting subsection (1), matters that assurance activities could relate to include the following:

 (a) how registered providers are using subsidy or grants and charging for funded aged care services, including justifications for amounts charged to individuals;

 (b) how registered providers are structuring their financial accounting for delivering funded aged care services;

 (c) how registered providers are delivering funded aged care services;

 (d) the nature and type of dealings that registered providers have with individuals to whom they are delivering funded aged care services;

 (e) information and documents provided by registered providers;

 (f) the completeness, accuracy and reliability of information and documents mentioned in paragraph (e);

 (g) the procedures and documentation of registered providers in relation to matters mentioned in any of the above paragraphs.

Note: Assurance activities may be conducted before or after, or in conjunction with, other actions that the System Governor may take under this Chapter, and may inform those other actions. Any findings, conclusions or recommendations made as a result of assurance activities may provide a basis for the System Governor to exercise other powers under this Chapter.