Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AGED CARE ACT 1997 - SECT 57A.8A

                   If:

                     (a)  an * accommodation charge is payable by a care recipient for * entry to an * aged care service (the prior service ) that is a residential care service; and

                     (b)  the care recipient ceases being provided with residential care through the prior service (other than because the care recipient is on * leave) on or after 20 March 2008; and

                     (c)  the care recipient enters another aged care service that is a residential care service within 28 days after the day on which the care recipient ceased being provided with care by the prior service;

the maximum daily amount at which the accommodation charge accrues for the entry of the care recipient to the other service is the maximum daily amount of accommodation charge that accrued under section 57A-6 for entry of the care recipient to the prior service.