29Approvals of hostels

#### 29 Approvals of hostels (1) If, immediately before the commencement day, an approval of a hostel for financial assistance by way of recurrent subsidy was in force under section 10B of the 1954 Act, for the purposes of the new Act: (a) the Secretary is taken, on that day, to have allocated under section 14-1 of the new Act, to the holder of the approval, a number of \*places equal to the number of hostel places (within the meaning of the 1954 Act) to which the approval related immediately before that day; and (b) the General Conditions formulated under section 10F of the 1954 Act, as in force immediately before that day, are taken, on that day, to be conditions to which the allocation is subject under section 14-5 of the new Act; and (c) the allocation is taken to be subject to a further condition under section 14-5 of the new Act that: (i) the places are allocated in respect of the location at which the hostel is situated; and (ii) any \*care provided, in respect of the places, must be provided at that location; and (d) the Secretary is taken, on that day, to have determined under section 15-1 of the new Act that the holder of the approval is in a position to provide care, in respect of those places, for which subsidy under Chapter 3 of the new Act may be paid. (2) Subject to subsection (3), the allocation of \*places referred to in paragraph (1)(a) is taken to be in respect of \*residential care subsidy. (3) If, on the commencement day, \*community care is being \*provided in respect of the \*places, the allocation of places referred to in paragraph (1)(a) is taken to be in respect of \*community care subsidy. (4) For the purposes of subsection (1), the holder of the approval is the organisation that applied under section 10B of the 1954 Act for approval of the premises.