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. Section 7 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting ‘the prescribed period,’ and substituting ‘a period after the commencement of this Act,’.