Defence Service Homes Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1980 No. 290

REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE SERVICE HOMES ACT

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I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Defence Service Homes Act 1918.

 Dated this nineteenth day of September 1980.

 ZELMAN COWEN

 Governor-General

 By His Excellency’s Command,

EVAN ADERMANN

Minister of State for Veterans’ Affairs

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AMENDMENTS OF THE DEFENCE SERVICE HOMES

REGULATIONS2

Repeal of regulation 19

 1.Regulation 19 of the Defence Service Homes Regulations is repealed.

 2. Part VII of the Defence Service Homes Regulations is repealed and the following Part substituted:

“PART VII—INSURANCE OF DWELLING-HOUSES

Certain dwelling-houses deemed to be insured

• “45.

  Dwelling-houses in which the Corporation has an interest, not being dwelling-houses that are otherwise insured with the Corporation or to which sub-section 38 (4D) of the Act applies, shall be deemed to be insured with the Corporation.

Corporation may pay premiums on behalf of itself or another person

• “46.

  The Corporation may, in respect of dwelling-houses in which the Corporation has an interest, pay insurance premiums on behalf of itself or another person.”.

The Schedule—Form A

 3.The Schedule to the Defence Service Homes Regulations is amended by omitting Form A.

Transitional

4.(1) In this regulation, “commencing day” means the day on which section 11 of the Defence Service Homes Amendment Act 1978 comes into operation.

(2) Where insurance has lawfully been undertaken by the Corporation before the commencing day in respect of a dwelling-house and that insurance has not expired before that day, that insurance—

• (a)

  shall continue in force until the date that was the expiry date of that insurance when undertaken and

• (b)

  shall, on and after the commencing day, be subject to the Statement of Conditions referred to in sub-section 38 (2) of the Defence Service Homes Act 1918 or the Statement of Conditions as varied in pursuance of sub-section 38 (3) of that Act as if the insurance had been undertaken by the Corporation on that day.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 26 September 1980.

2. Statutory Rules 1936 No. 74 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1980 No. 289 and see also