Div 1Applications for registration and registration decisions

Division 1—Applications for registration and registration decisions

Subdivision A—Applications for registration

104  Registration of providers

 (1) An entity may apply to the Commissioner to be registered as a registered provider.

Note 1: The Commissioner is not required to make a decision on the application if this subsection is not complied with: see section 589.

Note 3: The entity may, at the same time, make an application under section 111 to approve a residential care home in relation to the entity.

 (3) Without limiting subsection (2), the application must specify:

 (a) each provider registration category that the entity is applying to be registered in; and

 (b) each service type (the intended service types) that the funded aged care services which the entity intends to deliver are in; and

 (c) each service group through which the entity intends to deliver those service types; and

 (d) any specialist aged care program the entity intends to deliver those service types under; and

 (e) each residential care home (if any) that the entity is applying for approval of; and

 (f) each approved residential care home (if any) of the entity; and

 (g) each responsible person of the entity; and

 (h) the legal and business structure of the entity, including the nature and extent of the relationship between the entity and any associated providers of the entity; and

 (i) any other information prescribed by the rules.

 (4) Despite subsection (1), an entity may not make an application under that subsection if the entity is already a registered provider.

Note: An entity that is already a registered provider may apply to renew the registration under Subdivision B.

105  Commissioner must decide whether to register the entity

 (1) The Commissioner must consider an application made by an entity under subsection 104(1), and the requirements in section 109, and decide:

 (a) whether to register the entity as a registered provider and in which registration categories; and

 (b) if the Commissioner decides to register the entity in the residential care category—each approved residential care home to be covered by the entity’s registration.

Note 1: The Commissioner may decide to register an entity in some, but not all, provider registration categories that the entity specifies in the entity’s application: see subsection 109(2).

Note 2: If the Commissioner decides to register the entity as a registered provider of funded aged care services, the entity is subject to the conditions on registered providers set out in Part 4.