Commonwealth Numbered Acts

AGED CARE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) ACT 1997 No. 114 of 1997 - SECT 66

(1) For the purposes of the new Act, if:

   (a)  a person was, or is taken under paragraph 58(2)(e) to be, an exempt
        patient (within the meaning of section 39AD of the 1953 Act) in an
        approved nursing home immediately before the commencement day; and

   (b)  on the commencement day, or on a day occurring after the commencement
        day, the person is *provided with *residential care through a
        *residential care service corresponding to that nursing home; the
        *daily income tested reduction in respect of the person for the day on
        which the residential care is provided is taken to be zero.

(2) If, after the commencement day:

   (a)  the person ceases to be *provided with *residential care through the
        *residential care service (other than because the person is on

*leave); or

   (b)  the person is provided with residential care through the residential
        care service, but not on an extra service basis within the meaning of
        Division 36 of the new Act; this section does not apply in respect of
        any subsequent day on which the person is provided with residential
        care through that residential care service.