Aged Care (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2024
20GLeave from an approved residential care home
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20G Leave from an approved residential care home
(a) an entity is, because of subitem 5(1) of this Schedule, taken to be a registered provider under paragraph 105(1)(a) of the new Act; and
(b) because of subitem 5(7) of this Schedule, a place through which a residential care service is provided is taken to be an approved residential care home in relation to the entity.
Hospital leave
(2) A day before the transition time on which an individual was on leave from the residential care service under subsection 42‑2(2) of the old Act or subsection 42‑2(2) of the old Transitional Provisions Act is to be counted, for the purposes of the new Act, as a day on which the individual was on hospital leave from the approved residential care home.
Hospital transition leave
(3) A day before the transition time on which an individual was on leave from the residential care service under subsection 42‑2(3A) of the old Act is to be counted, for the purposes of the new Act, as a day on which the individual was on hospital transition leave from the approved residential care home.
Social leave
(4) In determining, for the purposes of paragraph 244(7)(c) of the new Act, the number of days during a financial year on which an individual has previously been on leave from the approved residential care home under subsection 244(7) of that Act, any day during that financial year on which the individual was on leave from the residential care service under subsection 42‑2(3) of the old Act is to be counted.