Commonwealth Numbered Acts

AGED CARE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) ACT 1997 No. 114 of 1997 - SECT 54

If:

   (a)  a person had, before the commencement day, made a written request to
        the Minister for a grant of exempt bed status under subsection 39AD(4)
        of the 1953 Act, in connection with the expiry of a certificate
        granted under section 39AB of the 1953 Act; and

   (b)  as at the commencement day, the Minister had not yet granted the
        exempt bed status; the request is taken, for the purposes of the new
        Act, to be an application under section 31-2 of the new Act for
        determinations under that section in respect of each *place that
        corresponds to a bed in the approved nursing home to which the
        certificate related. The application is taken to have been received on
        the commencement day.