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deducted from

the total amount of advances in respect of general care benefit paid in relation to the nursing home during the accounting period.

"(5) If steps have been taken to pay (by the manner specified in the principles) an amount determined under subsection (1) to be a likely underpayment then, for the purpose of establishing whether or not the proprietor of the nursing home has been underpaid in respect of the accounting period, the amount is to be added to the total amount of advances in respect of general care benefit paid in relation to the nursing home during the accounting period.

"(6) For the purpose of this section, the proprietor of an approved nursing home is underpaid general care benefit if the proprietor has received, by way of advance on account of general care benefit that may become payable in respect of an approved nursing home patient in the nursing home on a day in the accounting period, an amount that is less than the amount payable to the proprietor in respect of the nursing home patient on that day.".

Insertion of new heading in Part VA

9. Before section 47 of the Principal Act the following heading is inserted:

"Division 2—Types of benefit payable".

Benefits for patients in other approved nursing homes

  10. Section 47A of the Principal Act is amended:

  (a) by inserting before subsection (1) the following subsection:

     "(1A) This section applies to an approved nursing home other than a Government nursing home, an adjusted fee government nursing home, a transferred home or a nursing home for disabled people.";

    (b)    by omitting from subsection (1), "Subject to this Part and Part VC, a Commonwealth benefit is payable to the proprietor of an approved nursing home (other than a Government nursing home, a transferred home or a nursing home for disabled people)" and substituting "Subject to this Part, Part VC and Part VD, the proprietor of an approved nursing home in respect of which this section applies is entitled to receive benefit";

    (c)     by omitting from subsection (2) "The benefit payable under subsection (1)," and substituting "The benefit that the proprietor of the nursing home is entitled to receive under subsection (1)";

    (d)    by omitting from paragraph (2)(a) "the fee payable to the proprietor for the provision of nursing home care for the patient on the relevant day" and substituting "the notional fee";

    (e)     by omitting from subsection (3) "The benefit payable" and substituting "The benefit that the proprietor is entitled to receive".

Repeal of section

  11. Section 48 of the Principal Act is repealed.

Benefit for nursing home care in transferred homes and adjusted fee government nursing homes

  12. Section 48A of the Principal Act