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

Schedule 2   Application, saving and transitional provisions

Part 6   Transitional provisions for Chapter 7 of the new Act

53   Retention of records by approved providers

(1) This item applies to a person or body who, immediately before the transition time, was an approved provider within the meaning of the old Act.

(2) Despite the repeal of the old Act by this Act, sections 88-1 to 88-3 and 89-1 of that Act continue to apply to the person or body in relation to a record that was made before the transition time as if the repeal had not happened.

(3) For the purposes of subitem (2), the reference in section 88-2 of the old Act to the Records Principles is taken to be a reference to the Records Principles made by the Minister under section 96-1 of that Act, as in force immediately before the transition time.

(4) Nothing in this item is intended to change the time at which the requirement to retain a record referred to in subsection 89-1(2) of the old Act arises.