Aged Care Legislation Amendment (Vaccination Information) Principles 2024 (Cth)

Aged Care Legislation Amendment (Vaccination Information) Principles 2024 I, Anika Wells, Minister for Aged Care, make the following principles.

Dated 5 December 2024

Anika Wells Minister for Aged Care

Contents 1 Name 2 Commencement 3 Authority 4 Schedules Schedule 1—Amendments Accountability Principles 2014 Records Principles 2014

1 Name This instrument is the Aged Care Legislation Amendment (Vaccination Information) Principles 2024.

2 Commencement (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Provisions Commencement Date/Details 1. The whole of this instrument 6 December 2024. 6 December 2024

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument. (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3 Authority This instrument is made under the Aged Care Act 1997.

4 Schedules Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Accountability Principles 2014

1 Sections 30BA and 30C Repeal the sections, substitute:

30BA Reports about service staff—influenza vaccinations

Residential care services, certain flexible care services, and home care services (1) An approved provider of: (a) a residential care service; or (b) a flexible care service through which transition care is provided (whether in a residential or community setting); or (c) a flexible care service through which short‑term restorative care is provided (whether in a residential care setting or a home care setting); or (d) a home care service; must, on request by the Secretary, give the Secretary a report, in a form approved by the Secretary, that sets out the following information in relation to the service staff in relation to the service, as at the reporting day specified in the request: (e) the total number of service staff in relation to the service; (f) the number of those service staff who have informed the approved provider, whether voluntarily or as required under a law of a State or Territory, that they have received the annual seasonal influenza vaccination for the calendar year that includes the reporting day (whether or not under the approved provider's influenza vaccination scheme (if any)). Note: Certain approved providers must have an influenza vaccination scheme for service staff: see sections 8 and 15BA of the Quality of Care Principles 2014.