Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Minister for Ageing) Share this | Hansard source

by leave—I present a supplementary explanatory memorandum to the bill and I move government amendments (1) and (2):

(1)    Schedule 1, items 26 and 27, page 19 (lines 4 to 7), omit the items, substitute:

26  Paragraph 42-1(4)(b)

Omit “so as to preclude any high level of residential care”, substitute “to a ^*low level of residential care”.

(2)    Schedule 1, page 19 (after line 33), after item 31, insert:

31A  At the end of section 44-3

Add:

The Minister must not determine a different amount for a day based on the care recipient being on ^*extended hospital leave that is less than half of the amount that would have been the basic subsidy amount if the care recipient had not been on extended hospital leave on that day.

Question agreed to.

Bill, as amended, agreed to.

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