Commonwealth Numbered Acts

AGED CARE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) ACT 1997 No. 114 of 1997 - SECT 27

(1) If:

   (a)  an organisation had, before the commencement day, applied under
        section 10B of the 1954 Act for the approval of a hostel for financial
        assistance by way of recurrent subsidy; and

   (b)  immediately before the commencement day, the hostel was not the
        subject of a certificate under section 9AB of the 1954 Act for
        financial assistance by way of recurrent subsidy; and

   (c)  as at the commencement day, the Minister had not yet made a decision
        on the application; the application is taken, for the purposes of the
        new Act, to be an application made, on the commencement day, under
        section 13-1 of the new Act for an allocation of *places in respect of
        *residential care subsidy.

(2) Subject to paragraph 13-1(d) of the new Act, the application is taken to
be a valid application for the purposes of the new Act.

(3) A reference in this section to a certificate under section 9AB of the 1954
Act includes a reference to such a certificate issued by virtue of subsection
9AC(1) of the 1954 Act in connection with an application under that
subsection.