Commonwealth Numbered Acts

NURSING HOMES AND HOSTELS LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1987 No. 72, 1987 - SECT 4

4. Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended:
(a) by inserting after the definition of "nursing home care" in subsection (1)
the following definition:

" 'nursing home for disabled people' means:

   (a)  a nursing home approved on or after 1 July 1987 where the certificate
        of approval under section 41 states that the home is approved as a
        nursing home for disabled people; or

   (b)  any other approved nursing home declared by the Minister, by written
        notice, to be a nursing home for disabled people;"; and

   (b)  by inserting after the definition of "Territory" in subsection (1) the
        following definition:

" 'transferred home' means:

   (a)  a nursing home approved on or after 1 July 1987 where:

        (i)    an application for a certificate under subsection 3A (2) of the
               Nursing Homes Assistance Act 1974 was made before 1 July 1987;

        (ii)   the object of the proposal to which the application for a
               certificate related was to transfer to the nursing home an
               approval under the Nursing Homes Assistance Act 1974 in respect
               of another nursing home conducted by the same proprietor on the
               same or a different site;

        (iii)  a certificate under subsection 39A (2) is granted on or after 1
               July 1987; and

        (iv)   the proprietor, in the application for approval of the nursing
               home, requests that the nursing home be treated as a
               transferred home for the purposes of this Act;

   (b)  a nursing home, other than a nursing home to which paragraph (a)
        applies, approved on or after 1 July 1987 but before 1 July 1991
        where:

        (i)    a certificate under subsection 3A (2) of the Nursing Homes 
               Assistance Act 1974 was in force on 30 June 1987; and

        (ii)   the proprietor, in the application for approval of the nursing
               home, requests that the nursing home be treated as a
               transferred home for the purposes of this Act; and

   (c)  a nursing home, other than a nursing home to which paragraph (a) or
        (b) applies, that:

        (i)    on 30 June 1987 was an approved nursing home within the meaning
               of the Nursing Homes Assistance Act 1974; and

        (ii)   is not specified in a notice published under subsection 41 (1)
               of the Nursing Homes and Hostels Legislation Amendment Act
               1987;".