37Admission to a nursing home prior to approval

#### 37 Admission to a nursing home prior to approval If: (a) before the commencement day, a person is admitted to an approved nursing home without the admission being approved under subsection 40AA(8) or section 40AB of the 1953 Act; and (b) on or after the commencement day, the person is approved under Part 2.3 of the new Act as a recipient of \*residential care; and (c) under subsection 22-5(2) of the new Act, the approval is taken to have had effect from the day on which the residential care started; the person is to be taken, for the purposes of the 1953 Act, to have been approved under subsection 40AA(8) or section 40AB of the 1953 Act on the day the person was admitted to the nursing home.