First Home Owner Grant Amendment Regulations 2002 (WA)

22 October 2002 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 5255

TF301*

First Home Owner Grant Act 2000

First Home Owner Grant Amendment

Regulations 2002

Made by the Governor in Executive Council.

1.            Citation

These regulations may be cited as the First Home Owner Grant
Amendment Regulations 2002.

operation of section 16(1) of the Act in relation to an

2.            The regulations amended

The amendments in these regulations are to the First Home
Owner Grant Regulations 2000*.

[* Published in Gazette 30 June 2000, P. 3433-7.

For amendments to 23 September 2002 see 2001 Index to
Legislation of Western Australia, Table 4, p. 109.]

3.             Regulation 7 amended

After regulation 7(2) the following subregulations are inserted —

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(2a) A person who owns land is excluded from the

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application for a first home owner grant in relation to a new home on the land if the Commissioner is satisfied that —

(a)	it is proposed at the commencement date of the eligible transaction that the land on which the home is to be built will be the subject of a strata plan or survey-strata plan registered under the Strata Titles Act 1985;
(b)	the strata plan or survey-strata plan is, or will be, registered as soon as practicable after the eligible transaction is completed; and
(c)	the person is not, or will not become, as a result of the registration of the strata plan or survey-strata plan, an owner of the home.

(2b) In subregulation (2a) —

"new home" means a home that is built —

(a)	under a comprehensive home building contract; or
(b)	by an owner builder.

By Command of the Governor,

M. C. WAUCHOPE, Clerk of the Executive Council.