Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AGED CARE ACT 1997 - SECT 12.4

             (1)  The Secretary may, in respect of each type of subsidy, distribute for the financial year the * places * available for allocation in a State or Territory among the * regions within the State or Territory.

Note:          * Regions are determined under section 12‑6.

             (2)  In distributing the places, the Secretary must comply with any requirements specified in the Allocation Principles.

             (3)  If, in respect of a type of subsidy:

                     (a)  the Secretary does not, under subsection (1), distribute for the financial year the * places * available for allocation in the State or Territory; or

                     (b)  the whole of the State or Territory comprises one * region;

the Secretary is taken to have distributed for that year the places to the whole of the State or Territory as one region.