State Housing Act Amendment Act 1954 (WA)

1954.] State Housing. [No. 12.

STATE HOUSING.

3° Elizabeth II., No. XII.

No. 12 of 1954.

AN ACT to amend the State Housing Act, 1946-1953.

[Assented to 14th September, 1954.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the State Housing	Short title
and citation.

Act Amendment Act, 1954.

(2) In this Act the State Housing Act, 1946-1953, Act No. 51 of 1946 as amended by Acts Nos. 27 of 1947, 19 of 1948, 15 and 27 of 1950, 52 of 1951, 23 of 1952 and 77 of 1953,

is referred to as the principal Act.

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(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act

may be cited as the State Housing Act, 1946-1954.

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amended. 2. Section three of the principal Act is amended

by adding after line nine the following:—

PART VIA., s. 60A.—SPECIAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE

TO WORKERS FOR BUILDING HOMES.

S. 6A

added. 3. The principal Act is amended by adding after

section six the following section:-

Board

may treat	6A. (1) The Commission may treat a worker
and enter

Into	and his wife or her husband together as a worker
transactions
with a	for the purposes of this Act, and references in
worker and
his or her	this Act to a worker, include a reference to a
wife or
husband as	husband and wife with whom the Commission
Joint tenants.
Cf. No. 38 of	proposes to enter, or has entered, into a trans-
/947, s.5
of the Cth.	action in accordance with this section.
Parliament.

Where the Commission so treats and has entered, or enters, into a transaction with a husband and wife, the husband and wife are jointly and severally liable to fulfil the obliga- tions of a worker in respect of the transaction.

(2)

(3) The Commission shall not apply this section in relation to property unless it is owned or proposed to be owned by the worker and his wife or her husband as joint tenants.

Part VI A.

added. 4. The principal Act is amended by adding after

section sixty the following:—

PART VIA.—SPECIAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE

TO WORKERS FOR BUILDING HOMES.

Commission

may grant	60A. Where a worker
special
assistance

in certain	desires to build a dwelling-house at a cost
cases.	not exceeding three thousand pounds, exclusive of the value of the land on which he proposes to build the dwelling-house;

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is able without borrowing to pay so much of the cost of building the dwelling-house as the Commission approves; but

is unable to borrow without assistance under this Part from the Commission sufficient money in order to enable him to pay the balance of the cost;

the Commission may, notwithstanding any other provisions of this Act, assist him by guarantee or advance on second mortgage, or both, in order to enable him to do so, but shall not in granting assistance under this Part expend a greater amount in any one year ending on the thirtieth day of June, than represents twenty-five per centum of the amount of money mentioned in subsection (1) of section twenty- four of this Act as that appropriated by Parlia- ment for that year.

5.    Section seventy-two of the principal Act is ,?..;,„7:,,„„4.

amended by substituting for the passage commenc- ing with the words, "a fund" in line one of subsec- tion (1) and ending with the word, "Fund" being the last word in that subsection, the passage, "an account to be called "The Advance Instalments Deposit Account"."

6.    Section seventy-six of the principal Act is 2;;T:n.

amended

(a) by substituting for paragraph (b) the following:

(b) a balance sheet as at the thirtieth day of June of that year;

(b) by substituting for paragraph (c) the following:

(c) a profit and loss account for the year;

(c) by deleting paragraphs (d) and (e).