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2019-2021
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
THE SENATE
Presented and read a first time
Aged Care Amendment (Registered
Nurses Ensuring Quality Care) Bill 2021
No. , 2021
(Senator Patrick)
A Bill for an Act to amend the
Aged Care Act 1997
,
and for related purposes
No. , 2021
Aged Care Amendment (Registered Nurses Ensuring Quality Care) Bill
2021
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Contents
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Short title ........................................................................................... 1
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Commencement ................................................................................. 1
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Schedules ........................................................................................... 2
Schedule 1--Amendments
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Aged Care Act 1997
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No. , 2021
Aged Care Amendment (Registered Nurses Ensuring Quality Care)
Bill 2021
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A Bill for an Act to amend the
Aged Care Act 1997
,
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and for related purposes
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The Parliament of Australia enacts:
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1 Short title
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This Act is the
Aged Care Amendment (Registered Nurses
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Ensuring Quality Care) Act 2021
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2 Commencement
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(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table
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commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with
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column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect
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according to its terms.
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Aged Care Amendment (Registered Nurses Ensuring Quality Care) Bill
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No. , 2021
Commencement information
Column 1
Column 2
Column 3
Provisions
Commencement
Date/Details
1. The whole of
this Act
The day after this Act receives the Royal
Assent.
Note:
This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally
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enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of
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this Act.
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(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act.
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Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it
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may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
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3 Schedules
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Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or
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repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule
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concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect
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according to its terms.
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Amendments
Schedule 1
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Aged Care Amendment (Registered Nurses Ensuring Quality Care) Bill
2021
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Schedule 1--Amendments
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Aged Care Act 1997
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1 After paragraph 54-1(1)(b)
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Insert:
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(ba) if the type of aged care is residential care or flexible care
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provided in a residential setting--to ensure at least one
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registered nurse is on duty at all times in a residential facility
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to:
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(i) provide care to
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residential care recipients; and
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(ii) supervise the provision of care to residential care
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recipients;
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2 At the end of section 54-1
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Add:
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(3) In this section:
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registered nurse
means a person who is registered in the nursing
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profession as a registered nurse under:
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(a) for a State or Territory (other than Western Australia)--the
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Health Practitioner Regulation National Law set out in the
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Schedule to the
Health Practitioner Regulation National Law
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Act 2009
(Qld), as it applies (with or without modification)
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as a law of the State or Territory; or
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(b) for Western Australia--the
Health Practitioner Regulation
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National Law Act 2010
(WA), so far as that Act corresponds
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to the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law set out in
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the Schedule to the
Health Practitioner Regulation National
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Law Act 2009
(Qld).
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