State Housing Act Amendment Act 1973 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

STATE HOUSING.

No. 91 of 1973.

AN ACT to amend the State Housing Act, 1946-1972.

[Assented to 27th December, 1973.]

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 2arctiattIL

Housing Act Amendment Act, 1973.

No. 91.] State Housing. 1973.

Vol. 17 of the

Reprinted	(2) In this Act the State Housing Act, 1946-1972
Acts.

Approved for	is referred to as the principal Act.
reprint 1st
March, 1961
and
further

amended by	(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may
Acts Nos.

36 of 1961,

be cited as the State Housing Act, 1946-1973.

41 of 1964,

11 of 1966,

50 of 1968,

11 and 102 of

1969 and 22

of 1972.

Section 66

amended.

2. Section 66 of the principal Act is amended by adding after subsection (2b) the following sub- section

(2c) Without limiting the operation of any of

preceding provisions of this section

(a)	the Minister and the Commission, subject to the Minister, are hereby respectively authorised to administer for and on behalf of the State any agreement entered into between the State and the Commonwealth on or after the first day of July, 1973 relating to financial assistance from the Com- monwealth for the purposes of housing; and
(b)	any act or thing done in good faith by or on behalf of the Minister or the Commission in the course of, or for the purposes of, administering or carrying into effect any such agreement, or prior to the coming into operation of any such agreement but in anticipa- tion of and for the eventual purposes of such an agreement, shall be deemed to have been done lawfully. .