Title: First Home and Housing Construction Grants (Budget 2013)Amendment Bill 2013
Author: Office of Parliamentary Counsel
Category: parliamentary.copy
Document comments: lc158

Legislative Council—No 158
As received from the House of Assembly and read a first time, 20 June 2013

First Home and Housing Construction Grants (Budget 2013) Amendment Bill 2013

First Home and Housing Construction Grants (Budget 2013) Amendment Bill 2013
Part 1—Preliminary

First Home and Housing Construction Grants (Budget 2013) Amendment Bill 2013
Preliminary—Part 1

First Home and Housing Construction Grants (Budget 2013) Amendment Bill 2013
Part 2—Amendment of First Home and Housing Construction Grants Act 2000

First Home and Housing Construction Grants (Budget 2013) Amendment Bill 2013
Amendment of First Home and Housing Construction Grants Act 2000—Part 2

First Home and Housing Construction Grants (Budget 2013) Amendment Bill 2013
Schedule 1—Transitional provision

First Home and Housing Construction Grants (Budget 2013) Amendment Bill 2013
Transitional provision—Schedule 1

South Australia
First Home and Housing Construction Grants (Budget 2013) Amendment Bill 2013
A Bill For
An Act to amend the First Home and Housing Construction Grants Act 2000.

Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1	Short title
2	Commencement
3	Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of First Home and Housing Construction Grants Act 2000
4	Amendment of section 18BAB—Housing construction grant
Schedule 1—Transitional provision
1	Transitional provision

The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows:
Part 1—Preliminary
1—Short title
This Act may be cited as the First Home and Housing Construction Grants (Budget 2013) Amendment Act 2013.
2—Commencement
This Act will come into operation on 1 July 2013 (and if this Act is not assented to until after that date, it will be taken to have come into operation on that date).
3—Amendment provisions
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a specified Act amends the Act so specified.

Part 2—Amendment of First Home and Housing Construction Grants Act 2000
4—Amendment of section 18BAB—Housing construction grant
	(1)	Section 18BAB(1)(b)—delete "1 July 2013" and substitute:
1 January 2014
	(2)	Section 18BAB(1)(d)(iii)(A)—delete "31 December 2014" and substitute:
30 June 2015

Schedule 1—Transitional provision
1—Transitional provision
	(1)	If—
	(a)	a person is entitled to a housing construction grant under section 18BAB of the First Home and Housing Construction Grants Act 2000 as amended by this Act in relation to an eligible transaction with a commencement date that is on or after 1 July 2013; and
	(b)	the person has received a benefit constituted by an ex gratia payment by the State in order to provide for a housing construction grant under section 18BAB as amended by this Act for the period between 1 July 2013 and the day on which this Act is assented to by the Governor,
the amount of the relevant entitlement will be reduced by the amount of the ex gratia payment (including so as to fully set off the amount of the relevant entitlement).
	(2)	Terms used in subclause (1) that are defined in the First Home and Housing Construction Grants Act 2000 have the same respective meanings as in that Act.

HA GP 227-C OPC 127