323Pending applications for renewal of registration

323 Pending applications for renewal of registration

(1) If a body had applied for the renewal of registration as a community service under section 50 of the Children, Youth and Families Act 2005 and that application is not finally determined immediately before the commencement of Part 3, the application must be finally determined under that Act as in force immediately before that commencement.

(2) If the Secretary registers a body in response to an application described in subsection (1), the body is taken to be granted a registration under section 23 to provide the social services prescribed to be equivalent to the social services to which the application for renewal relates.