State funded residential care service
6 State funded residential care service
S. 6(1) amended by No. 46/1998 s. 7(Sch. 1).
The Secretary may, by notice published in the Government Gazette, declare premises to be a State funded residential care service if—
S. 6(1)(a) amended by No. 46/1998 s. 7(Sch. 1).
in the opinion of the Secretary a business is carried on at those premises on a not-for-profit basis of providing accommodation to persons who—
S. 6(1)(a)(i) amended by No. 23/1994 s. 118(Sch. 1 item 25.2).
require the exercise of nursing supervision and care with occasional attendance by a registered medical practitioner; and
S. 6(1)(a)(ii) substituted by No. 88/1994 s. 6, amended by Nos 73/1997 s. 5(1)(b), 55/2006 s. 5.
are persons in respect of whom residential care subsidy under an Act of the Commonwealth are provided; and
the Government of Victoria provides funds directly or indirectly on a recurrent basis for the carrying on of that business.
S. 6(2) inserted by No. 73/1997 s. 5(2).
Any premises in respect of which a declaration under this section was in force immediately before the commencement of section 5 of the Health Services (Amendment) Act 1997 are deemed, on that commencement, to be declared under this section to be a State funded residential care service.
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