Commonwealth Numbered Acts

HEALTH, HOUSING AND COMMUNITY SERVICES LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1992 No. 88 of 1992 - SECT 77

77. After section 46A of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
Benefit payable for up to 2 days prior to admission   "46B. For the purposes
of this Part, if an approved nursing home patient was admitted to the nursing
home concerned on a day after the day on which the person was notified that
there was a vacancy in the nursing home, the patient is taken to have been an
approved nursing home patient receiving nursing home care:

   (a)  if the person was so notified on the day before being so admitted - on
        the day immediately preceding admission; or

   (b)  if the person was so notified on a day prior to the day before being
        so admitted - on the 2 days immediately preceding admission.".