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