The Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025 introduces technical corrections to the Aged Care Act 2024 and expands healthcare identifiers to support integrated aged care, disability, and health services delivery.
From 1 July 2025, Victoria’s new Act establishes a regulated hierarchy for appointing substitute decision-makers to authorise restrictive practices in residential aged care, replacing interim Commonwealth measures and clarifying consent processes.
This Bill inserts a range of amendments into the Retirement Villages Act 1986 (Vic) including a new requirement for earlier contract disclosures, annual contract checks, prompt exit payments, and mandatory dispute reporting, while imposing tougher penalties for non-compliance on retirement village operators.
On 24 July 2025, the Federal government introduced the Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025 (Cth) which makes a number of technical changes to the new Aged Care Act 2024 (Cth) to ensure that the new Act can operate as originally intended. The Bill also makes important amendments to the Healthcare Identifiers Act 2010 (Cth) to enable healthcare identifiers and other identifying information to be used in relation to the delivery of health and aged care and other support services.
Federal parliament has introduced new staffing requirements for approved providers of residential care so that a registered nurse must be on duty 24 hours, 7 days a week.
New National aged care laws have commenced, requiring approved providers to submit a ‘Palliative Care Status Form’ for relevant care recipients.
Federal Parliament has introduced significant regulatory reform in response to the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety Final Report.
The Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025 introduces technical corrections to the Aged Care Act 2024 and expands healthcare identifiers to support integrated aged care, disability, and health services delivery.
From 1 July 2025, Victoria’s new Act establishes a regulated hierarchy for appointing substitute decision-makers to authorise restrictive practices in residential aged care, replacing interim Commonwealth measures and clarifying consent processes.
This Bill inserts a range of amendments into the Retirement Villages Act 1986 (Vic) including a new requirement for earlier contract disclosures, annual contract checks, prompt exit payments, and mandatory dispute reporting, while imposing tougher penalties for non-compliance on retirement village operators.
On 24 July 2025, the Federal government introduced the Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025 (Cth) which makes a number of technical changes to the new Aged Care Act 2024 (Cth) to ensure that the new Act can operate as originally intended. The Bill also makes important amendments to the Healthcare Identifiers Act 2010 (Cth) to enable healthcare identifiers and other identifying information to be used in relation to the delivery of health and aged care and other support services.
Federal parliament has introduced new staffing requirements for approved providers of residential care so that a registered nurse must be on duty 24 hours, 7 days a week.
New National aged care laws have commenced, requiring approved providers to submit a ‘Palliative Care Status Form’ for relevant care recipients.
Federal Parliament has introduced significant regulatory reform in response to the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety Final Report.
