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        Contents
 
Part 1 Preliminary
 s1.. Name of Act
 s2.. Commencement
 s3.. Definitions
 s4.. Notes
Part 2 Objects of Act
Part 3 New South Wales Land and Housing Corporation
Part 4 Acquisition, sale, development and management of land and property
Part 5 Housing areas
Part 6 Advances for houses, other buildings and land
Part 7 Rental rebate
Part 8 Joint ventures, interests in private corporations and trusts
Part 9 Finance
Part 10 Miscellaneous
Schedule 1
Schedule 2 Superannuation provisions
Schedule 3 Savings, transitional and other provisions

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  1. Housing Act 2001 (NSW)
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  Housing Act 2001 No 52 (NSW) List of acts
 

An Act to consolidate certain legislation relating to housing; to repeal the Housing Act 1912, the Housing Act 1976, the Housing Act 1985 and the Home Purchase Assistance Authority Act 1993; to amend various Acts consequentially; and for other purposes.

Part 1 Preliminary

 

1.   Name of Act

 

This Act is the Housing Act 2001.

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2.   Commencement

 

This Act commences, or is taken to have commenced, on 1 July 2001.

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3.   Definitions

 

In this Act:

 

building includes any part of a building and any appurtenance to a building, any fence, wall and any other structure or a part of a structure and any provision for lighting, heating, refrigeration, water supply, drainage or sewerage.

 

Commonwealth State agreement includes any agreement to which the Commonwealth and the State are parties, whether or not other persons or bodies are also parties to the agreement.

 

Corporation means the New South Wales Land and Housing Corporation constituted by this Act.

 

council has the same meaning as it has in the Local Government Act 1993.

 

Department means the Department of Housing.

 

Director-General means the Director-General of the Department.

 

exercise a function includes perform a duty.

 

function includes a power, duty or authority.

 

Home Purchase Assistance Fund means the fund established under the trust deed entitled “Trust Deed establishing the Home Purchase Assistance Fund”, being an agreement entered into on 14 February 1989 between the State, the Department of Housing, the Treasury, Permanent Custodians Limited and Permanent Trustee Company Limited.

 

house or housing means any kind of dwelling.

 

Housing Account means the account established under section 63.

 

housing area means a housing area constituted under section 36.

 

Housing Reserve Fund means the Housing Reserve Fund established under section 66.

 

proprietor in relation to land means the proprietor of a legal or equitable estate of fee simple in the land.

 

public authority means any public or local authority constituted by or under an Act other than this Act.

 

public housing means housing owned or leased by the Corporation, and managed by the Department, that is leased to members of the public that meet the Department’s or the Corporation’s eligibility criteria, but does not include housing leased to a person in accordance with the HomeFund Restructuring Act 1993 or that is substituted for housing leased in accordance with that Act.

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4.   Notes

 

Notes included in this Act are explanatory notes and do not form part of this Act.

 

Note. For the purposes of comparison, a number of provisions of this Act contain bracketed notes in headings drawing attention (“cf”) to equivalent or comparable (though not necessarily identical) provisions of other Acts that are the subject of repeal by this Act.

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