31Applications for revocation of approvals of hostels

31 Applications for revocation of approvals of hostels

(1) Subject to subsection (3), if: (a) an application had, before the commencement day, been made under subsection 10FAA(3) of the 1954 Act for revocation of the approval of a hostel granted under section 10B of the 1954 Act; and (b) immediately before the commencement day, approval of the hostel was still in force; and (c) as at the commencement day, the Minister had not yet made a determination under subsection 10FAA(3) of the 1954 Act or notified the applicant that such a determination would not be made; the application is taken, for the purposes of the new Act, to be: (d) if the application is made in connection with an application under section 9AB of the 1954 Act by another person—an application made on the commencement day, under section 16-2 of the new Act, for the transfer to that other person of *places of a number equal to the number of hostel places (within the meaning of the 1954 Act) in the hostel; or (e) in any other case—a notice in writing under section 18-2 of the new Act, given to the Secretary on the commencement day, *relinquishing *places of a number equal to that number of hostel places. (2) If paragraph (1)(e) applies, subsections 18-2(2), (3) and (4) and sections 18-3 and 18-4 of the new Act do not apply to the notice or the *relinquishment. (3) This section does not apply if, immediately before the commencement day, some or all of the hostel places (within the meaning of the 1954 Act) in the hostel were occupied.