sec.138IPrescription of minimum average daily resident care hours

### sec.138I Prescription of minimum average daily resident care hours A regulation may prescribe a requirement about the minimum average daily resident care hours at a State aged care facility prescribed by regulation. The regulation may apply in relation to the delivery of residential care— by stated Services; and at stated facilities or parts of facilities; and at stated times; and in stated circumstances. The average daily resident care hours at a State aged care facility is worked out by dividing the total number of hours of residential care that nurses and support workers provide at the facility on a day by the number of residents at the facility on the day. For this section, a nurse or support worker is taken to provide residential care at a State aged care facility only if the nurse or support worker is directly involved in providing residential care at the facility. s 138I ins 2019 No. 38 s 69 (sec.138I-ssec.1) A regulation may prescribe a requirement about the minimum average daily resident care hours at a State aged care facility prescribed by regulation. (sec.138I-ssec.2) The regulation may apply in relation to the delivery of residential care— by stated Services; and at stated facilities or parts of facilities; and at stated times; and in stated circumstances. (sec.138I-ssec.3) The average daily resident care hours at a State aged care facility is worked out by dividing the total number of hours of residential care that nurses and support workers provide at the facility on a day by the number of residents at the facility on the day. (sec.138I-ssec.4) For this section, a nurse or support worker is taken to provide residential care at a State aged care facility only if the nurse or support worker is directly involved in providing residential care at the facility. - (a) by stated Services; and - (b) at stated facilities or parts of facilities; and - (c) at stated times; and - (d) in stated circumstances.