Aged Care Act 2024

The rules may prescribe requirements relating to conducting an audit of an entity’s ability to conform with the Aged Care Quality Standards for a provider registration category.

Without limiting subsection (1), the rules may prescribe requirements about the following:

how an audit for a provider registration category must be conducted, including required audit activities;

the type and scope of audits that can be conducted for a provider registration category and the circumstances in which a particular type of audit is to be conducted;

fees payable by an entity for an audit for a provider registration category;

audit timeframes for a provider registration category;

requirements (including qualifications) that a person conducting an audit must meet.

For the matters that can be dealt with in the Aged Care Quality Standards: see section 15.

Without limiting subsection (1), the rules may prescribe different requirements for different kinds of registered providers.

Examples of different kinds of registered providers include:

providers delivering funded aged care services under a specialist aged care program; and

providers delivering funded aged care services at a specified number of residential care homes; and

providers that have previously been registered providers in a provider registration category; and

providers that have not previously been registered providers in a provider registration category.