131AFunctions of the Pricing Authority—aged care

131A Functions of the Pricing Authority—aged care

(1) The Pricing Authority also has the following functions: (a) to provide advice to each relevant Commonwealth Minister in relation to one or more aged care pricing or costing matters, including in relation to methods for calculating amounts of subsidies to be paid under the Aged Care Act; (b) such functions relating to aged care (if any) as are specified in regulations made for the purposes of this paragraph; (c) to conduct, or arrange for the conduct of, one or more of the following activities for the purpose of performing a function mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b): (i) the collection and review of data; (ii) costing and other studies; (iii) consultations; (d) to do anything incidental to or conducive to the performance of the above functions; (e) such functions (an Aged Care Act function) as are: (i) conferred on the Pricing Authority by the Aged Care Act or a legislative instrument made under that Act; or (ii) specified in regulations made for the purposes of this subparagraph; or (iii) incidental to or conducive to the performance of the functions mentioned in subparagraph (i) or (ii). (2) In performing a function mentioned in subsection (1), the Pricing Authority must have regard to the objects of the Aged Care Act (as mentioned in section 5 of that Act).