South Australian Numbered Acts South Australian Numbered ActsAfter section 9A insert:
9B—Arrangements if resident leaves to enter residential aged care
facility
(1) A resident of a
retirement village—
(a) who
has been approved under Part 2.3 of Chapter 2 of the Aged Care Act 1997 of
the Commonwealth to enter into residential care at an aged care facility
provided by an approved provider under that Act; and
(b) who
must pay an accommodation bond under that Act; and
(c) who
does not have ready access to funds to make the payment, or whose personal
finances would be seriously affected by any such payment; and
(d) who
has paid a refundable premium to the administering authority of the village,
may, within 60 days after being so approved for entry or leaving the village
(whichever is the later), apply to the administering authority for repayment
of so much of the premium as the resident requires to secure entry into
residential care at the aged care facility.
(2) The administering
authority must, within 60 days after receiving an application under
subsection (1), repay to the resident so much of the premium as the
resident requires to secure entry into residential care at the aged care
facility (up to but not exceeding an amount that is a reasonable assessment of
the amount that the resident would be entitled to on account of the repayment
of the premium in any event).