Commonwealth Numbered Acts

HEALTH, HOUSING AND COMMUNITY SERVICES LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1992 No. 88 of 1992 - SECT 78

78. After section 61 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
Records to be kept by former proprietors for 12 months

"61AA.(1) This section applies in relation to the sale of an approved nursing
home that occurs after the commencement of this section.

"(2) A former proprietor of an approved nursing home must retain all the
accounts, books, documents and other records relating to the operation of the
nursing home that he or she, as proprietor of the nursing home, was required
to keep under this Part for a period of 12 months beginning on the day on
which the former proprietor ceased to be the proprietor of the nursing home.
Penalty: $3,000.

"(3) The former proprietor must hold the accounts, books, documents and other
records at a place approved, in writing, by the Secretary. Penalty: $3,000.

"(4) A copy of the Secretary's approval must be given to the former proprietor
within 7 days of the approval being given.".