27Applications for approval of hostels without section 9AB certificates

27 Applications for approval of hostels without section 9AB certificates

(1) If: (a) an organisation had, before the commencement day, applied under section 10B of the 1954 Act for the approval of a hostel for financial assistance by way of recurrent subsidy; and (b) immediately before the commencement day, the hostel was not the subject of a certificate under section 9AB of the 1954 Act for financial assistance by way of recurrent subsidy; 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) Subject to paragraph 13-1(d) of the new Act, the application is taken to be a valid application for the purposes of the new Act. (3) A reference in this section to a certificate under section 9AB of the 1954 Act includes a reference to such a certificate issued by virtue of subsection 9AC(1) of the 1954 Act in connection with an application under that subsection.