Aged Care Act 2024

The System Governor has the following functions:

to facilitate equitable access to funded aged care services, including in respect of the location where services are delivered and individuals who identify with a number of diversity characteristics;

to support the continuity of funded aged care services when the delivery of services by a registered provider is disrupted;

to provide stewardship of the Commonwealth’s administration of the aged care system and encourage the delivery of high quality care by:

developing policy to make ongoing improvements to the Commonwealth’s administration of the aged care system, including by consulting with individuals of diverse backgrounds and individuals who identify with a number of diversity characteristics; and

promoting the availability of funded aged care services in areas of unmet demand; and

promoting diversity of registered providers to enable individuals to choose between registered providers; and

providing education to build the capacity of registered providers to adopt best practice in the delivery of funded aged care services;

to protect and uphold the integrity of the Commonwealth’s administration of the aged care system and the Commonwealth’s investment in the system, by:

collecting, maintaining and providing accurate information about the Commonwealth’s administration of the aged care system, including on expenditure by registered providers on the delivery of funded aged care services; and

providing oversight of the Commonwealth’s payments to registered providers, including ensuring compliance with this Act and other relevant requirements;

to encourage the training and development of aged care workers of registered providers;

to review the Commonwealth’s administration of the aged care system, or a part of that system, including undertaking research, evaluation and analysis;

any other functions conferred on the System Governor by this Act or any other law of the Commonwealth;

to do anything incidental or conducive to the performance of any of the above functions.

The System Governor may, by notifiable instrument, make guidelines relating to the performance of any of the functions mentioned in subsection (1).