Commonwealth Numbered Acts

AGED CARE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) ACT 1997 No. 114 of 1997 - SECT 29

(1) If, immediately before the commencement day, an approval of a hostel for
financial assistance by way of recurrent subsidy was in force under section
10B of the 1954 Act, for the purposes of the new Act:

   (a)  the Secretary is taken, on that day, to have allocated under section
        14-1 of the new Act, to the holder of the approval, a number of

*places equal to the number of hostel places (within the meaning of the 1954
Act) to which the approval related immediately before that day; and

   (b)  the General Conditions formulated under section 10F of the 1954 Act,
        as in force immediately before that day, are taken, on that day, to be
        conditions to which the allocation is subject under section 14-5 of
        the new Act; and

   (c)  the allocation is taken to be subject to a further condition under
        section 14-5 of the new Act that:

        (i)    the places are allocated in respect of the location at which
               the hostel is situated; and

        (ii)   any *care provided, in respect of the places, must be provided
               at that location; and

   (d)  the Secretary is taken, on that day, to have determined under section
        15-1 of the new Act that the holder of the approval is in a position
        to provide care, in respect of those places, for which subsidy under
        Chapter 3 of the new Act may be paid.

(2) Subject to subsection (3), the allocation of *places referred to in
paragraph (1)(a) is taken to be in respect of *residential care subsidy.

(3) If, on the commencement day, *community care is being *provided in respect
of the *places, the allocation of places referred to in paragraph (1)(a) is
taken to be in respect of *community care subsidy.

(4) For the purposes of subsection (1), the holder of the approval is the
organisation that applied under section 10B of the 1954 Act for approval of
the premises.