Aged Care Act 2024
93Method for allocation
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93 Method for allocation
(1) The System Governor must determine in what order to allocate places to individuals under subsection 92(1) for a classification type for a service group or for a classification level for a classification type for a service group.
(2) The rules may prescribe a method that the System Governor must follow in deciding the order of allocation under subsection (1) for a classification type for a service group or for a classification level for a classification type for a service group.
(3) Without limiting subsection (1), a method prescribed for the purposes of subsection (2) for the allocation of a place to an individual for a classification type for a service group, or a classification level for a classification type for a service group, may be based on any of the following factors:
(a) the individual’s priority category (if any) for the classification type;
(b) the day the individual’s access approval for the classification type was given;
(c) whether the individual has an interim place in effect for the classification type or the classification level;
(d) the individual’s wait time for the allocation of a place for the classification type or the classification level;
(e) whether the individual has informed the System Governor that the individual is not seeking access to funded aged care services for a specified period.
Division 2—Allocation of a place to registered providers for certain specialist aged care programs