Aged Care Act 2024

The rules must prescribe classification levels for each classification type for each service group.

Without limiting subsection (1), the rules may:

set out different classification levels for different classification types for different service groups; and

set out criteria for each classification level that are to be used in establishing the classification level of an individual for a classification type for a service group; and

set out for each service group which classification levels are in each classification type.

A classification level in the short‑term or hospital transition type will have a time‑limited period of effect because of rules made for the purposes of subsection 80(4).

Subject to subsection (4), rules made for the purposes of subsection (1) may specify methods or procedures that the System Governor must follow in deciding classification levels for an individual for a classification type for a service group.

Rules made for the purposes of subsection (1) may:

set out compounding factors (based on results against relevant assessment items mentioned in subsection 77(2)) that will be used to establish an individual’s classification level; and

prescribe the scientific population study that will be used by the System Governor to derive a method for establishing when these compounding factors, taken together, are significant because they indicate the individual has significantly higher care needs relative to the needs of other individuals.