56Additional exempt bed fees

#### 56 Additional exempt bed fees (1) If a certificate under section 39AB of the 1953 Act stating that the beds included in an approved nursing home are exempt beds was in force immediately before the commencement day, for the purposes of the new Act, the Secretary is taken, on that day, to have approved under section 35-1 of the new Act extra service fees for the \*places corresponding to those beds. > Note: See also section 52 of this Act in relation to exempt bed status, section 64 of this Act in relation to the effect on extra service reductions under the new Act and section 70 of this Act in relation to the effect on extra service amounts under the new Act. (2) The amounts of the extra service fees are taken, for the purposes of the new Act, to be equal to the amount of the additional exempt bed fees (within the meaning of the 1953 Act) relating to those beds immediately before that day. (3) If: (a) an application is subsequently made under section 35-1 of the new Act for approval of extra service fees for any of those \*places; and (b) apart from subsection (1) of this section, the Secretary has not previously approved under section 35-1 of the new Act extra service fees for any of the places that are the subject of the application; the reference in paragraph 35-3(3)(c) of the new Act to the last approval is a reference to: (c) the last day on which a change in the additional exempt bed fees relating to those beds took effect under section 39AB or 40AD of the 1953 Act; or (d) if there has never been a change in those fees relating to those beds—the day on which the grant of exempt bed status, referred to in the certificate under section 39AB of the 1953 Act, took effect in relation to those beds.