65Compensation payable to nursing home patient

#### 65 Compensation payable to nursing home patient (1) If, immediately before the commencement day, a determination under subsection 59(1) of the 1953 Act was in force in respect of a qualified nursing home patient (within the meaning of the 1953 Act), for the purposes of the new Act, paragraphs 44-20(2)(a) and (b) of that Act are taken to be satisfied in respect of a day if: (a) on that day the patient is provided with \*residential care; and (b) that \*residential care corresponds to the nursing home care to which the determination relates. (2) If there are or have been reductions, under subsection 59(2) or (3) of the 1953 Act, in Commonwealth benefit (within the meaning of Part VC of the 1953 Act) as a result of the determination, those reductions in benefit are taken, for the purposes of the new Act: (a) to be compensation payment reductions of the kind referred to in paragraph 44-20(2)(c) of the new Act; and (b) to have resulted in reductions in subsidy, as referred to in that paragraph, of an amount equal to the sum of those reductions in benefit.