Commonwealth Numbered Acts

COMMUNITY SERVICES AND HEALTH LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT (No. 2) 1988 No. 155 of 1988 - SECT 34

34. Section 48A of the Principal Act is amended:
(a) by inserting in subsection (2) "(2A)," after "subsection";

   (b)  by inserting in subsection (2) ", in respect of each approved nursing
        home patient and each Repatriation nursing home patient occupying a
        bed other
than an exempt bed," after "subsection (1)";

   (c)  by adding after subsection (2) the following subsection:

"(2A) The benefit payable under subsection (1) in respect of each approved
nursing home patient and each Repatriation nursing home patient occupying an
exempt bed in a nursing home is equal to the difference between:

   (a)  the reference fee, within the meaning of section 39, in relation to
        that patient; and

   (b)  the sum of:

        (i)    the amount for the time being applicable for the purposes of
               subparagraph 47 (2) (b) (iii); and

        (ii)   an amount equal to the proportion of the additional exempt bed
               fee, within the meaning of section 39, that the proprietor
               agreed, in the proprietor's application for exempt bed status
               in respect of beds in that home, should be taken into account
               in reducing the Commonwealth benefit payable from time to time
               in respect of each of those beds if the application were
               granted.".