18Applications for approval of nursing homes without section 39A or 39B certificates

18 Applications for approval of nursing homes without section 39A or 39B certificates

(1) If: (a) a person had, before the commencement day, applied under section 40AA of the 1953 Act for the approval of premises as an approved nursing home; and (b) immediately before the commencement day, the premises were not the subject of a certificate under section 39A or 39B of the 1953 Act; and (c) as at the commencement day, the Minister had not yet made a decision on the application; the application is taken, for the purposes of the new Act, to be an application made, on the commencement day, under section 13-1 of the new Act for an allocation of *places in respect of *residential care subsidy. (2) For the purposes of the new Act, the application is taken to be a valid application that meets all of the requirements of section 13-1 of the new Act.