172. The Minister may develop and implement a plan allowing an applicant for or the holder of a childcare centre permit under the new provisions of section 7 of the Act to acquire, subject to the conditions determined by the Minister, a day care centre or a home day care agency operated by a person that was the holder of a day care centre permit or home day care agency permit on 11 June 1997.
Following the acquisition, the applicant shall become the holder of a childcare centre permit and has until 31 August 2002 to become a childcare centre within the meaning of the new provisions of section 1 of the Act, on pain of revocation of the permit.