51Applications for exempt bed status

#### 51 Applications for exempt bed status (1) If: (a) a person had, before the commencement day, applied under section 39AB of the 1953 Act to have all the beds included or proposed to be included in an approved nursing home granted status as exempt beds; and (b) 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: (c) to be an application made, on that day, under section 32-3 of the new Act for \*extra service status in respect of the \*residential care service corresponding to that nursing home; and (d) to be an application made, on that day, under section 35-1 of the new Act for extra service fees to be approved for the \*places corresponding to the beds included in the nursing home. (2) For the purposes of the new Act, the amounts specified under paragraph 39AB(3)(a) of the 1953 Act in the application under section 39AB of the 1953 Act are taken to be the extra service fees proposed in the application under section 35-1 of the new Act. (3) Any particulars that were included in the application under paragraph 39AB(3)(b) of the 1953 Act are, for the purposes of the new Act, to be disregarded.