Aged Care Act 2024

It is a condition of registration that a registered provider of a kind prescribed by the rules must, in accordance with any requirements prescribed by the rules:

provide access to the vaccinations mentioned in subsection (2) for free to:

individuals to whom the provider is delivering funded aged care services; and

aged care workers of the provider who access, or are reasonably likely to access, any premises where the delivery of funded aged care services occurs (service staff); and

promote the benefits, for the individuals and service staff mentioned in paragraph (a), of those individuals and service staff receiving the vaccinations mentioned in subsection (2).

For the purposes of subsection (1), the vaccinations are the following:

an influenza vaccination;

a COVID‑19 vaccination;

any other vaccination prescribed by the rules.