Commonwealth Numbered Acts

HEALTH AND COMMUNITY SERVICES LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1991 No. 211 of 1991 - SECT 53

53. After section 11 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
Automatic revocation of approval of certain nursing homes

"11AA.(1) This section applies in spite of any other provision of this Act.

"(2) In this section:

"Commonwealth/State Disability Agreement" means the Commonwealth/State
Disability Agreement made on 30 July 1991 between the Commonwealth on the one
part and the States and Territories on the other part;

"scheduled nursing home" means a nursing home whose name and address is
specified in Column 2 of an item in the Schedule, being the nursing home to
which the certificate of approval issued by the Minister under subsection 8(1)
and bearing the approval number specified in Column 4 of that item relates.

"(3) If the provisions (other than subclauses 1(1) and (2)) of the
Commonwealth/State Disability Agreement come into force in respect of a State
in which a scheduled nursing home is situated on a day (in this subsection
called the "effective day") earlier than 1 July 1992, the approval of the
scheduled nursing home (unless sooner revoked) is, by force of this
subsection, revoked immediately before the effective day.".