28Applications for approval of hostels with section 9AB certificates

#### 28 Applications for approval of hostels with 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, a certificate under section 9AB of the 1954 Act was in force for financial assistance by way of recurrent subsidy in respect of the hostel; 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 15-1 of the new Act, for a determination by the Secretary in respect of the \*places referred to in paragraph 25(1)(a) of this Act in relation to that certificate. (2) The Secretary may specify, in a determination under section 15‑1 of the new Act in respect of those \*places, conditions to which the allocation of those places is to be subject. (3) For the purposes of the new Act, any conditions specified under subsection (2) of this section are taken to be conditions to which the allocation of those \*places is subject under section 14‑5 of the new Act. (4) 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. (5) The Secretary must not refuse an application that, under subsection (1) of this section, is taken to be an application made under section 15-1 of the new Act unless the Secretary is not satisfied that the conditions set out in the certificate in question have been complied with.