Aged Care (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2024
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(1) This item applies to information that, immediately before the transition time, was:
(a) protected information within the meaning of the old Act; or
(b) protected information within the meaning of the Commission Act; or
(c) information that was obtained or generated before the transition time for the purposes of the aged care programs under any of the following items in the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Regulations 1997:
(2) For the purposes of the new Act, the information is taken, after the transition time, to be relevant information within the meaning of that Act.
(3) To avoid doubt, a reference in paragraph (1)(a) to protected information within the meaning of the old Act includes a reference to information that is taken to be protected information because of the operation of item 8 of Schedule 4 to this Act (which deals with information acquired or generated for transitional purposes).