Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Act 2018 (150 of 2018)
Schedule 2 Application and transitional provisions
1 Definitions
In this Schedule:
Aged Care Act means the Aged Care Act 1997.
CEO means the Chief Executive Officer of the Quality Agency appointed under section 16 of the Quality Agency Act.
Complaints Commissioner means the Aged Care Complaints Commissioner appointed under section 95A-2 of the Aged Care Act, as in force immediately before the transition time.
instrument includes:
(a) a contract, deed, undertaking, arrangement or agreement; and
(b) a notice, authority, order or instruction; and
(c) an instrument made under an Act or regulation.
Quality Agency means the Australian Aged Care Quality Agency established by section 7 of the Quality Agency Act.
Quality Agency Act means the Australian Aged Care Quality Agency Act 2013, as in force immediately before the transition time.
Quality and Safety Commission means the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission established by section 11 of the Quality and Safety Commission Act.
Quality and Safety Commission Act means the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission Act 2018.
Quality and Safety Commissioner means the Commissioner of the Quality and Safety Commission appointed under section 24 of the Quality and Safety Commission Act.
transition time means the commencement of the Quality and Safety Commission Act.
2 Things done by, or in relation to, the CEO or Complaints Commissioner
(1) If, before the transition time, a thing was done by, or in relation to, the CEO for the purposes of the Quality Agency Act or the Aged Care Act, then the thing has effect, after that time, as if it had been done by, or in relation to, the Quality and Safety Commissioner for the purposes of the Quality and Safety Commission Act.
(2) If, before the transition time, a thing was done by, or in relation to, the Complaints Commissioner for the purposes of the Aged Care Act, then the thing has effect, after that time, as if it had been done by, or in relation to, the Quality and Safety Commissioner for the purposes of the Quality and Safety Commission Act.
(3) The rules may provide that subitem (1) or (2) does not apply in relation to a specified thing done by, or in relation to, the CEO or the Complaints Commissioner.
3 Advisory Council members
(1) This item applies to a person who, immediately before the transition time, was an Advisory Council member within the meaning of the Quality Agency Act.
(2) The person is taken, after the transition time, to have been appointed under section 41 of the Quality and Safety Commission Act as an Advisory Council member within the meaning of that Act:
(a) for the balance of the person's term of appointment that remained immediately before that time; and
(b) on the same terms and conditions as applied to the person immediately before that time.
(3) This item does not prevent those terms and conditions being varied after the transition time.
4 Consultants
(1) This item applies to a person if:
(a) before the transition time, the person was engaged as a consultant under section 28 of the Quality Agency Act; and
(b) the engagement was in effect immediately before that time.
(2) The person is taken, after the transition time, to be engaged as a consultant under section 35 of the Quality and Safety Commission Act on the same terms and conditions that applied to the person's engagement immediately before that time.
(3) This item does not prevent those terms and conditions being varied after the transition time.
5 Authorised complaints officers
(1) This item applies to a person who was, immediately before the transition time, appointed under subsection 94B-1(1) of the Aged Care Act as an authorised complaints officer.
(2) The person is taken, after the transition time, to have been appointed under subsection 73(1) of the Quality and Safety Commission Act as an authorised complaints officer for the purposes referred to in that subsection.
(3) An identity card issued to the person under subsection 94B-1(2) of the Aged Care Act before the transition time is taken, after that time, to have been issued under subsection 74(1) of the Quality and Safety Commission Act.
6 Transfer of records
(1) This item applies to any records or documents that were in the possession of the following immediately before the transition time:
(a) the CEO;
(b) the Quality Agency;
(c) the Complaints Commissioner;
(d) an APS employee of the Department who, before that time, was assisting the Complaints Commissioner in the performance of the Commissioner's functions under the Aged Care Act.
(2) The records and documents are to be transferred to the Quality and Safety Commissioner after the transition time.
Note: The records and documents are Commonwealth records for the purposes of the Archives Act 1983.
7 Protected information
(1) This item applies to the following information:
(a) information that, immediately before the transition time, was protected information within the meaning of the Quality Agency Act;
(b) information that:
(i) immediately before the transition time, was protected information within the meaning of the Aged Care Act; and
(ii) related to the functions of the Complaints Commissioner under that Act.
(2) For the purposes of the Quality and Safety Commission Act, the information is taken, after the transition time, to be protected information within the meaning of that Act.
8 References to the CEO etc. in instruments
(1) This item applies to an instrument if:
(a) the instrument was in force immediately before the transition time; and
(b) the instrument contains a reference to:
(i) the CEO; or
(ii) the Quality Agency; or
(iii) the Complaints Commissioner.
(2) The instrument has effect, after the transition time, as if:
(a) a reference in the instrument to the CEO or Complaints Commissioner were a reference to the Quality and Safety Commissioner; and
(b) a reference in the instrument to the Quality Agency were a reference to the Quality and Safety Commission.
(3) The rules may provide that subitem (2) does not apply in relation to a specified instrument.
(4) This item does not prevent the instrument from being amended or repealed after the transition time.
9 Legal proceedings
(1) If any proceedings to which the CEO is a party are pending in any court or tribunal immediately before the transition time, the Quality and Safety Commissioner is substituted for the CEO, from that time, as a party to those proceedings.
(2) If any proceedings to which the Complaints Commissioner is a party are pending in any court or tribunal immediately before the transition time, the Quality and Safety Commissioner is substituted for the Complaints Commissioner, from that time, as a party to those proceedings.
10 Rules
(1) The Minister may, by legislative instrument, make rules prescribing matters:
(a) required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed by the rules; or
(b) necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.
(2) Without limiting subitem (1), the rules may prescribe matters of a transitional nature (including prescribing any saving or application provisions) relating to:
(a) the amendments or repeals made by this Act; or
(b) the enactment of this Act or the Quality and Safety Commission Act.
(3) To avoid doubt, the rules may not do the following:
(a) create an offence or civil penalty;
(b) provide powers of:
(i) arrest or detention; or
(ii) entry, search or seizure;
(c) impose a tax;
(d) set an amount to be appropriated from the Consolidated Revenue Fund under an appropriation in this Act or the Quality and Safety Commission Act;
(e) directly amend the text of this Act or the Quality and Safety Commission Act.
(4) This Schedule (other than subitem (3)) does not limit the rules that may be made for the purposes of subitems (1) and (2).