Aged Care (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2024 (109 of 2024)

Schedule 2   Application, saving and transitional provisions

Part 4   Transitional provisions for Chapter 5 of the new Act

Division 1   Establishment of the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission

28   Requirement to prepare reports or give information - Commissioner

(1) This item applies if:

(a) the Commissioner under the Commission Act is required, by written notice given by the Minister under section 58 of that Act, to give the Minister, within a period that ends after the transition time:

(i) a report about a specified matter relating to the performance of the Commissioner's functions; or

(ii) a document setting out specified information relating to the performance of the Commissioner's functions; and

(b) the report or document had not been given to the Minister before that time.

(2) The Commissioner under the new Act must comply with the requirement.

(3) However, if the specified matter or specified information relates, in whole or in part, to the performance of the complaints functions of the Complaints Commissioner under the new Act, the Commissioner under the new Act may, in writing, delegate the preparation of the report or document, or relevant part of the report or document, to the Complaints Commissioner under the new Act.