Commonwealth Numbered Acts

AGED CARE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) ACT 1997 No. 114 of 1997 - SECT 73

(1) Despite the repeal of section 45EB of the 1953 Act, if:

   (a)  immediately before the commencement day, a direction under that
        section was in force; and

   (b)  the direction was to the proprietor (within the meaning of the 1953
        Act) of an approved nursing home to appoint a nursing home adviser in
        respect of the home; for the purposes of the new Act, the direction
        continues to apply as if the direction were a direction to the
        *approved provider conducting the

*residential care service that corresponds to the nursing home to appoint an
adviser in respect of that service.

(2) For the purposes of the new Act, the responsibilities of an approved
provider under section 63-1 of the new Act are taken to include complying with
a direction referred to in subsection (1).