Aged Care Act section 167: notifying a change in circumstances
Section 167 of the Aged Care Act lists the prescribed changes a registered provider notifies to the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission within 14 days of becoming aware.
s 167 and Rules 167-5 to 167-70
Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission- to
- Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission
- by when
- within 14 days of becoming aware
- what it is
- a notice
- line key
- ac167 for the Lodged column of a list
- raised by
- New, moved or closed site or outlet, Key personnel or responsible person change, New service or support type, Change of ownership or governance, Change in scale or service area, Suitability matter (provider or responsible person), Associated provider arrangement changed, Financial or prudential change, Residential care home change and Something else
A registered provider must notify the Commissioner (and, in prescribed circumstances, the System Governor) in the approved form within 14 days of becoming aware of a prescribed change: matters affecting its own suitability; changes in a responsible person's suitability; changes of responsible persons; significant changes to organisation arrangements (including appointment of a restructuring practitioner or an insolvency event); governance changes for providers subject to section 157; changes in scale; changes to intended service types; changes in associated provider arrangements; financial and prudential changes and liquidity events; and changes to approved residential care homes such as ownership. Failing to notify is a civil penalty of 30 penalty units.
Held text: Act No. 104 of 2024, Comp. No. 2 (C2026C00301, compilation date 1 Jul 2026); the Act commenced 1 Nov 2025; Aged Care Rules 2025 Comp. No. 10 (F2026C00802).
what an auditor asks to see Change-of-circumstances register with awareness and notification dates; Lodged notices with prescribed information; Board or company secretary procedure triggering notices
where it usually falls short Board changes not notified within 14 days; Liquidity events handled by finance without notifying the Commission
The Department's Aged Care Provider Requirements Search gives a profile-based list of the conditions, obligations and duties under the Act for the registration categories and services you choose. It starts from your profile; this checker starts from a change. The Commission's own page: Notifying us of changes in circumstances.
How the clock is counted: from the date (and, for 24 hours, the time) the provider became aware, as the clause says. Business days are days that are not a Saturday, a Sunday or a public holiday in the place concerned (the Acts Interpretation Act definition the Rules rely on): the checker applies the public holidays of the state or territory you give, from each government's own list, and says so on the line; local and part-day holidays are not modelled, and a date past the end of the list is marked indicative. A duty with no fixed period (as soon as practicable) shows its trigger date and never a due date. A period that has ended reads "the clause's period ended on" its date, with a place to record when it was lodged.
Check one changeSee the specimen registerThe one-page sample register