War Service Homes Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1947. No..

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE WAR SERVICE HOMES ACT 1918-1947.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the War Service Homes Act 1918-1947.

Dated this twenty-third day of July, 1947.

W. J. McKell

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Works and Housing.

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Amendments of the War Service Homes Regulations. 

Commencement.

1. These Regulations shall be deemed to have come into operation on the fourteenth day of July, 1947.

General amendments.

2. The War Service Homes Regulations are amended—

(a) by omitting the words “War Service Homes Commissioner” (wherever occurring) and inserting in their stead the words “Director of War Service Homes”; and

(b) by omitting the word “Commissioner” (wherever occurring) and inserting in its stead the word “Director”.

Definitions

3. Regulation 4 of the War Service Homes Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from the definition of “applicant” the word “eligible”;

(b) by omitting the definition of “Deputy Commissioner” and inserting in its stead the following definition:—

“‘Deputy Director’ means a person holding an office, or performing the duties of an office, of Deputy Director of War Service Homes;”; and

(c) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulations:—

“ (2.) Any reference in these Regulations to an eligible person shall be read as including a reference to a husband and wife with whom the Director proposes to enter, or has entered, into any transaction in accordance with sub-regulation (1.) of section 4a of the Act.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1947.

  Statutory Rules 1936, No. 74, as amended by Statutory Rules 1945, No. 202; and 1946, No. 66.

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“ (3.) Any reference in these Regulations to the Director shall, where the context so permits, be road as including a reference to the War Service Homos Commissioner appointed and constituted under the War Service Homes Act 1918, or under that Act as amended at any time prior to the commencement of the War Service Homes Act 1947, and any reference in these Regulations to a delegate or authorized person shall be road as including a corresponding reference”.

Form of mortgage.

4. Regulation 9 of the War Service Homes Regulations is amended by omitting the words “Acts of the States relating to registration” and inserting in their stead the words “law of the State or Territory of the Commonwealth in which the land is situated”.

Borrower to observe Acts and regulations applicable to home, &c.

5. Regulation 14 of the War Service Homes Regulations is amended by omitting the word “Each” and inserting in its stead the words “Subject to section 17b of the Act, each”.

Plans and specifications.

6. Regulation 30 of the War Service Homos Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (a) the word “and”; and

(b) by adding at the end of that paragraph the following subparagraphs :—

“ ; (iv) levels and falls;

(v) working details for all construction and built-in fixtures ; and

(vi) by a block plan, the position of all buildings and the water and drainage systems to be installed.”.

The Schedule.

7. The Schedule to the War Service Homes Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph 6 of Form A the word “for” and inserting in its stead the word “of”.

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By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.