Homeless Persons Assistance Amendment Act 1979
No. 130 of 1979
An Act to amend the Homeless Persons Assistance Act 1974.
BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and
House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:
Short
title, &c.
1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Homeless Persons Assistance Amendment Act 1979.
(2)
The Homeless Persons Assistance Act 1974
is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.
Commencement
2. This Act shall come into operation on the day
on which it receives the Royal Assent.
Title
3. The title of the Principal Act is amended by
omitting ‘Australia’ and substituting ‘the Commonwealth’.
Interpretation
4. Section 3 of the
Principal Act is amended by omitting the definition of ‘prescribed period’.
Approval
of projects
5. Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended by
omitting from paragraph (a) ‘during the prescribed period,’ and substituting ‘at
any time after the commencement of this Act,’.
Grants
in respect of rent of premises
6. Section 6 of the Principal Act is amended by
omitting ‘the prescribed period,’ and substituting ‘a period after the
commencement of this Act,’.
Grants
in respect of fixtures, &c.
7.