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Residential Care and Disability Support Services Act 2018

General provisions

4: Overview of this Act

You could also call this:

"What this law is about: rules for paying for care and disability support at home or in residences."

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This Act sets out rules about who pays for certain long-term residential care. It also sets out rules about who pays for home-based disability support services. You can find similar information in the 1964 legislation.

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Part 1General provisions

4Overview of this Act

  1. This Act—

  2. sets out the rules relating to liability for the cost of certain long-term residential care:
    1. sets out the rules relating to liability for the cost of home-based disability support services.

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