First Home Owner Grant Amendment Act 2000 (WA)

Western Australia

First Home Owner Grant Amendment Act 2000

Western Australia

First Home Owner Grant Amendment Act 2000

CONTENTS

1.	Short title	1
2.	Commencement	2
3.	The Act amended	2
4.	Section 7 amended	2
5.	Section 11 amended	2
6.	Section 12 amended	3
7.	Amendments relating to “Australian citizen”	3

7A. Meaning of “Australian citizen” 3

8. Amendments relating to “permanent resident” 3

7B. Meaning of “permanent resident” 4

Western Australia

First Home Owner Grant Amendment Act 2000

No. 61 of 2000

An Act to amend the First Home Owner Grant Act 2000.

[Assented to 7 December 2000]

The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:

1.             Short title

This Act may be cited as the First Home Owner Grant

Amendment Act 2000.

First Home Owner Grant Amendment Act 2000

s. 2

2.             Commencement

(1)

Except as stated in subsection (2), this Act comes into operation

on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

(2)

Section 8 is to be taken to have come into operation on

1 July 2000.

3.             The Act amended

The amendments in this Act are to the First Home Owner Grant

Act 2000*.

[* Act No. 16 of 2000.]

4.             Section 7 amended

Section 7(1) is amended as follows:

(a) after “grant if ” by inserting —

“

, on the commencement date of the eligible transaction

to which the application relates,

”;

(b) by deleting paragraph (b) and inserting the following paragraph instead —

“

(b) on the commencement date of the eligible transaction to which the application relates, the person has lived on that basis with the applicant for at least 2 years.

”.

5.             Section 11 amended

Section 11(1)(a) is amended by deleting “an earlier” and

inserting instead —

“ another ”.

First Home Owner Grant Amendment Act 2000

s. 6

6.             Section 12 amended

Section 12(3) is amended by deleting “date on which the

application is made,” and inserting instead —

“

commencement date of the eligible transaction to

which the application relates,

”.

7.             Amendments relating to “Australian citizen”

(1)

Section 3(1) is amended by deleting the definition of

“Australian citizen” and inserting the following definition

instead —

“

“Australian citizen” has the meaning given by

section 7A;

”.

(2) After section 7 the following section is inserted in Part 1 —

“

7A.

Meaning of “Australian citizen”

A person is an “Australian citizen” for the purposes

of an application for a first home owner grant if, on the

commencement date of the eligible transaction to

which the application relates, the person is an

Australian citizen under the Australian Citizenship

Act 1948 of the Commonwealth.

”.

8.             Amendments relating to “permanent resident”

(1)

Section 3(1) is amended by deleting the definition of “permanent

resident” and inserting the following definition instead —

“

“permanent resident” has the meaning given by

section 7B;

”.

First Home Owner Grant Amendment Act 2000

s. 8

(2) Before section 8 the following section is inserted in Part 1 —

“

7B.

Meaning of “permanent resident”

A person is a “permanent resident” for the purposes

of an application for a first home owner grant if, on the

commencement date of the eligible transaction to

which the application relates —

(a) the person is —

(i) the holder of a permanent visa within the meaning of section 30 of the Migration Act 1958 of the Commonwealth; or

(ii) a New Zealand citizen who is the holder of a special category visa within the meaning of section 32 of the Migration Act 1958 of the Commonwealth;

and

(b) the person has satisfied the Commissioner that he or she intends to reside permanently in Australia.

”.