

1998-99
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first time
Aged Care Amendment (Omnibus) Bill 1999
No. , 1999
(Aged Care)
A Bill for an Act to amend the Aged Care Act 1997 and other Acts, and for related purposes
Contents
1............ Short title............................................................................................. 1
2............ Commencement................................................................................... 1
3............ Schedule(s)......................................................................................... 2
Schedule 1—Aged Care Act 1997 3
Schedule 2—Social Security Act 1991 23
Schedule 3—Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986 31
Schedule 4—Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Budget and Simplification Measures) Act 1997 40
Schedule 5—Aged Care (Consequential Provisions) Act 1997 41
A Bill for an Act to amend the Aged Care Act 1997 and other Acts, and for related purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the Aged Care Amendment (Omnibus) Act 1999 .
2 Commencement
(1) Subject to this section, this Act commences on a day to be fixed by Proclamation.
(2) If this Act does not commence under subsection (1) within 6 months after the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent, it commences on the first day after the end of that period.
(3) Schedule 4 is taken to have commenced immediately after the commencement of Schedule 2 to the Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Budget and Simplification Measures) Act 1997.
(4) Items 3 and 4 of Schedule 5 are taken to have commenced immediately after the commencement of Schedule 1 to the Aged Care (Consequential Provisions) Act 1997 .
3 Schedule(s)
Subject to section 2, each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.