Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NATIONAL HEALTH ACT 1953 - SECT 45

             (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 Schedule 4, being the nursing home to which the certificate of approval issued by the Minister under subsection 40AA(2) and bearing the approval number specified in column 4 of that item relates.

             (3)  The approval of a scheduled nursing home as a nursing home for disabled people (unless sooner revoked) is, by force of this subsection, revoked immediately before the day on which the provisions (other than subclauses 1(1) and (2)) of the Commonwealth/State Disability Agreement come into force in respect of the State in which the scheduled nursing home is situated.