33Approvals of financial assistance for community aged care services packages

#### 33 Approvals of financial assistance for community aged care services packages (1) If, immediately before the commencement day, an approval for financial assistance for community aged care services packages (within the meaning of the 1954 Act) was in force under section 10GF 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 approved provider, a number of \*places equal to the number of community aged care services packages (within the meaning of the 1954 Act) to which the approval related immediately before that day; and (b) both: (i) the general conditions for the provision of financial assistance under Part IIIA of the 1954 Act, formulated under section 10GI of the 1954 Act and as in force immediately before that day; and (ii) any other conditions of a kind referred to in paragraph 10GG(1)(e) of the 1954 Act that, under an agreement entered into by the approved provider under section 10GG of the 1954 Act, are 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 specified locations within regions in which the community aged care services packages are, immediately before that day, provided; and (ii) any \*care provided, in respect of the places, must be provided at those locations; and (d) the Secretary is taken, on that day, to have determined under section 15-1 of the new Act that the approved provider 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) The allocation of places referred to in paragraph (1)(a) is taken to be in respect of \*community care subsidy. (3) For the purposes of subsection (1), the approved provider is the organisation that was the approved provider (within the meaning of section 10GC of the 1954 Act) that, immediately before the commencement day, was providing, or proposing to provide, the community aged care services packages in question.