9Department of Health and Family Services

9 Department of Health and Family Services

If a body to be known as the Aged Care Standards Agency is established by legislation before 1 July 1997, this Act has effect, and is taken at all times to have had effect, as if the appropriation of an amount to the Department of Health and Family Services under subdivision 1 or 2 of Division 340 in the Schedule were:

(a) an appropriation to the body of so much of that amount as is determined, in writing, by the Minister to be required for the purposes of the body in respect of the period commencing on the establishment of the body and ending on 30 June 1997; and

(b) an appropriation of the balance of that amount to the Department for the purpose of meeting its running costs or for expenditure on other services (as the case may be).