Aged Care (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Rules 2025
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78 Start notifications—classification type short‑term
(1) This section applies if: (a) an entity is, because of subitem 5(1) of Schedule 2 to the CTP Act, taken to be registered as a registered provider under paragraph 105(1)(a) of the new Act; and (b) immediately before the transition time, the entity was providing a care recipient with residential care in the form of respite care through a residential care service. (2) The entity is taken to have given a start notification about the individual to the System Governor and the Commissioner in accordance with Subdivision B of Division 4 of Part 4 of Chapter 4 of the new rules. (3) The start notification is taken: (a) to be given on the day of the transition time; and (b) to specify the day of the transition time as the start day for the individual for the classification type short‑term for the service group residential care; and (c) to specify the residential care service as the approved residential care home in which funded aged care services will be delivered to the individual.
Note: Because of subitem 5(7) of Schedule 2 to the CTP Act, each place through which an entity provided a residential care service as at immediately before the transition time is taken to be, or be part of, an approved residential care home in relation to the entity for the purposes of the new Act.