Defence Service Homes Regulation 2015

Select Legislative Instrument No. 148, 2015

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulation.

Dated 20 August 2015

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Michael Ronaldson

Minister for Veterans’ Affairs

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

5 Definitions

6 Operational areas

7 Use and disclosure of personal information—prescribed purposes

Schedule 1—Amendments

Defence Service Homes Regulations 1936

1  Name

  This is the Defence Service Homes Regulation 2015.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Defence Service Homes Act 1918.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

5  Definitions

  In this instrument:

Act means the Defence Service Homes Act 1918.

6  Operational areas

  For the purposes of paragraph 4(2)(b) of the Act, the following operational areas are prescribed:

 (a) the area comprising the country known, on and after 1 September 1957 and before 28 May 1963, as the Federation of Malaya;

 (b) the area that, on and after 1 September 1957 and before 28 May 1963, comprised the territory of Singapore (other than Christmas Island).

7  Use and disclosure of personal information—prescribed purposes

  For subsection 45C(2) of the Act, the following purposes are prescribed:

 (a) determining a person’s eligibility for a subsidy under the Act, including whether or not the person continues to be eligible;

 (b) determining the amount of a subsidy payable for a person, including correcting or updating the amount of subsidy;

 (c) deciding whether or not to authorise subsidy payments;

 (d) identifying errors in payment of subsidy, including overpayments;

 (e) making findings on internal review of a reviewable decision, and implementing the findings;

 (f) administering eligibility and entitlements under the Act, including correcting or updating a person’s subsidy amount;

 (g) any other purpose that is reasonably necessary for the administration of the Act;

 (h) determining a person’s eligibility for a subsidy under the Defence Force (Home Loans Assistance) Act 1990 or the Defence Home Ownership Assistance Scheme Act 2008, including whether or not the person continues to be eligible;

 (i) any other purpose that is reasonably necessary for the administration of the Defence Force (Home Loans Assistance) Act 1990 or the Defence Home Ownership Assistance Scheme Act 2008.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Defence Service Homes Regulations 1936

1  The whole of the Regulations

Repeal the Regulations.