22A   Interim accreditation as designated agency

(1)  This clause applies to the following bodies or organisations that, immediately before 15 July 2003, were providing out-of-home care to a child or young person, or arranging for the provision of such care:

(a)  a government department,

(b)  a residential child care centre licensed under the old Act,

(c)  a residential child care centre referred to in clause 34 of the Children (Care and Protection) Regulation 1996 (being a centre funded through the Department’s Substitute Care Program),

(d)  an authorised private fostering agency authorised under the old Act,

(e)  a private fostering agency funded through the Department’s Substitute Care Program,

(f)  any other body or organisation funded through the Department or the Department of Ageing, Disability and Home Care to provide the out-of-home care.

(2)  For the purposes of the new Act, a body or organisation to which this clause applies is taken to be accredited as a designated agency under the new Act, this Regulation and the principal Regulation during the transition period of the body or organisation, but only in respect of the kind of out-of-home care it was providing immediately before 15 July 2003.

(3)  The transition period of a body or organisation to which this clause applies is the period that began on 15 July 2003 and that ends:

(a)  if the body or organisation has made an application for accreditation—when the decision on the application takes effect, or

(b)  if the body or organisation has made an application for accreditation and the application is withdrawn—when the application is withdrawn, or

(c)  if the body or organisation’s accreditation is cancelled—when the cancellation takes effect, or

(d)  on 14 July 2013,

      whichever occurs first.

(4)  For the avoidance of doubt, if a branch or part of a body or organisation to which this clause applies makes an application for accreditation, the decision to accredit or not to accredit the branch or part does not terminate the accreditation under this clause of the body or organisation.