State Housing Act Amendment Act 1966 (WA)

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STATE HOUSING.

No. 11 of 1966.

AN ACT to amend the State Housing Act, 1946-1964.

[Assented to 5th October, 1966.]

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:-

Short title

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

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(2) In this Act the State Housing Act, 1946-1964, proved fopr reprint, 1s

is referred to as the principal Act. M arch, 1961

and amended by Acts Nos. 36 of 961

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may and 41 of 1964.

be cited as the State Housing Act, 1946-1966.

Commence-

2. This Act shall come into operation on a date ment.

to be fixed by proclamation.

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amended. 3. Section six of the principal Act is amended by adding after the word "Act" being the last word in paragraph (c) of the interpretation, "worker", a passage as follows-

; or

(d) is ordinarily resident south of the twenty- sixth parallel of latitude but not within the metropolitan region as defined by section two of the Town Planning and Development Act, 1928, and-

(i)    is, at the time of his application under this Act, in receipt of such an amount of salary, wages or income as does not exceed the amount that would be applicable in relation to him under paragraph (b) of this interpretation; or

(ii)    is, at that time, in receipt of such an amount of salary, wages or income as does not exceed by one- half the amount that would be applicable in relation to him under paragraph (b) of this interpretation, and who is, on the recommendation of the Commission and for reasons given by it in writing, approved by the Minister as a worker under and for the purposes of this Act. .

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amended. 4. Section sixty A of the principal Act is

amended

(a) by substituting for the words, "three thousand five hundred pounds" where they occur in-

(i)   line two of paragraph (a) of sub- section (2);

(ii)    lines three and four of paragraph (b) of subsection (2); and

(iii)    line two of paragraph (c) of sub- section (2),

the words, "eight thousand dollars" in each

case; and

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(b) by substituting for the passage, "amount of money mentioned in subsection (1) of section twenty-four of this Act as that appropriated by Parliament" in the last three lines of subsection (2), the passage "total of the amounts of money referred to in subsection (1) of section twenty-four of this Act that are appropriated by Parliament and borrowed or lawfully received".

5. Section sixty-six of the principal Act is LiFb amended.

amended

(a)	by deleting from line eight of paragraph (a) of subsection (2) the word "and";
(b)	by substituting for the passage, "1956." in the last line of subparagraph (ii) of para- graph (a) of subsection (2), the passage, "1956;";
(c)	by adding after subparagraph (ii) of para- graph (a) of subsection (2) the following passage

(iii)    shall so administer and shall be deemed to have and to have always had since the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and sixty- one, the power to so administer on behalf of the State the agreement entered into between the Common- wealth and the State, the execution of which by the State was authorised and the agreement as so executed approved by the Commonwealth and State Housing Agreement Act, 1961; and

(iv)    shall so administer for and on behalf of the State the agreement approved by the Commonwealth and State Housing Agreement Act, 1966,; and

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(d) by adding after subsection (2a) a subsection

as follows:

(2b) In order to remove any doubts, which but for the enactment of this subsection might arise, it is hereby expressly declared, without prejudice to the provisions of subsection (2) of this section, that everything done, permitted or suffered by the Commission or any person and every payment made by the Commission in exercise or purported exercise of any right, power, authority or duty conferred or imposed upon the Commission by this Act or the Common- wealth and State Housing Agreement Act, 1961, and the agreement approved by that Act in respect of the administra- tion of the agreement by the Commission on behalf of the State, shall be deemed on and after the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-one to be valid and effectual as if subsection (2) of this section as amended by the State Housing Act Amendment Act, 1966, had come into operation on that date, and are accordingly ratified, confirmed and validated. .