Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SOCIAL SERVICES AMENDMENT ACT 1981 No. 159, 1981 - SECT 3

3. Section 18 of the Principal Act is amended-

(a) by inserting after the definition of ''dependent female'' the following
definition:

'' 'Government rent' means-

   (a)  rent payable to any of the following authorities:

        (i)    The Housing Commission of New South Wales;

        (ii)   the Housing Commission established by a law of Victoria;

        (iii)  The Queensland Housing Commission;

        (iv)   The Corporation of the Director of Aboriginal and Islanders
               Advancement established by a law of Queensland;

        (v)    the South Australian Housing Trust;

        (vi)   The State Housing Commission established by a law of Western
               Australia;

        (vii)  the Director-General of Housing and Construction holding office
               under a law of Tasmania;

        (viii) the Northern Territory Housing Commission;

        (ix)   any other authority specified by the Minister, by notice in the
               Gazette, for the purposes of this definition;

   (b)  rent payable to the Commonwealth in respect of any accommodation in
        Glebe in New South Wales; and

   (c)  rent payable to the Commonwealth in respect of any accommodation in
        the Australian Capital Territory or in the Jervis Bay Territory, other
        than rent of a kind specified by the Minister, by notice in the
        Gazette, for the purposes of this paragraph;''; and

   (b)  by omitting the definition of ''rent'' and substituting the following
        definition:

'' 'rent', in relation to a person, means rent in respect of premises, or a
part of premises, occupied by the person as his home, and includes amounts
payable by the person for lodging, or for board and lodging, but does not
include Government rent;''.