13Approved providers of community aged care services

#### 13 Approved providers of community aged care services (1) If: (a) an approval was in force under section 10GC of the 1954 Act in relation to an organisation immediately before the commencement day; and (b) financial assistance by way of recurrent subsidy is or was payable to the organisation in respect of the provision by the organisation, on the day before the commencement day, of community aged care services packages (within the meaning of the 1954 Act); the organisation is taken, for the purposes of the new Act, to be an \*approved provider. > Note: An organisation that does not satisfy either paragraph (1)(a) or (b) will need to apply under section 8-2 of the new Act in order to be approved as a provider of \*aged care under that Act. (2) If a person is taken to be an \*approved provider under subsection (1): (a) the approval is taken, for the purposes of the new Act, to be limited under paragraph 8-1(2)(c) of the new Act to community care provided through \*aged care services that the person was conducting, or proposed to conduct, on the day before the commencement day; and (b) the information provided in the application under section 10GC of the 1954 Act is taken, for the purposes of section 9‑1 of the new Act, to have been provided in an application under section 8-2 of the new Act; and (c) if the organisation is not a \*corporation on the commencement day—paragraph 10-3(1)(a) of the new Act does not apply to the approval.