Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1A) This section applies to an approved nursing home other than a Government nursing home, an adjusted fee government nursing home, a transferred home or a nursing home for disabled people.
(1) Subject to this Part, Part VC and Part VD, the proprietor of an approved nursing home in respect of which this section applies is entitled to receive benefit in respect of each approved nursing home patient in the home for each day on which the patient receives nursing home care in the home.
(2) The benefit that the proprietor of the nursing home is entitled to receive under subsection (1) in respect of an approved nursing home patient occupying a bed other than an exempt bed is equal to the difference between:
(a) the notional fee; and
(b) the sum of:
(i) the amount for the time being applicable for the purpose of subparagraph 47(2)(b)(iii); and
(ii) the additional patient contribution (if any) applicable to the patient.
(3) The benefit that the proprietor is entitled to receive under subsection (1) in respect of each approved nursing home patient occupying an exempt bed in a nursing home is equal to the difference between:
(a) the reference fee, within the meaning of section 39, in relation to that patient; and
(b) the sum of:
(i) the amount for the time being applicable for the purposes of subparagraph 47(2)(b)(iii); and
(ii) an amount equal to the proportion of the additional exempt bed fee, within the meaning of section 39, that the proprietor agreed, in the proprietor's application for exempt bed status in respect of beds in that home, should be taken into account in reducing the Commonwealth benefit payable from time to time in respect of each of those beds if the application were granted.
(4) This section does not apply in respect of a day on or after the day on which the Aged Care Act 1997 (other than Division 1 of that Act) commences.
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