10CAuthority to provide financial assistance

10C Authority to provide financial assistance

(1) If an approved hostel was, immediately before the commencement of the Aged Care Act 1997 (other than Division 1 of that Act), approved for financial assistance by way of recurrent subsidy, that approval shall be taken to constitute authority, subject to: (a) this Division; (b) the General Conditions; and (c) the terms of an agreement entered into under section 10FA; to pay financial assistance to the organisation operating the hostel, at rates determined in accordance with section 10D, in respect of the provision, by the organisation, in the hostel places and, where appropriate, in the respite care places, referred to in the agreement entered into under section 10FA, of hostel care services and personal care services being an agreement that was, immediately before the commencement of the Aged Care Act 1997 (other than Division 1 of that Act), in force. (3) Financial assistance shall not be paid under this Division in respect of the provision of services at premises that are a nursing home within the meaning of the National Health Act 1953.