Defence Force (Home Loans Assistance) Regulations 2018

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 regulations.

Dated 30 August 2018

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Darren Chester

Minister for Defence Personnel

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

5 Definitions

6 Use and disclosure of personal information—prescribed purposes

Schedule 1—Repeals

Defence Force (Home Loans Assistance) Regulations 1991

1  Name

  This instrument is the Defence Force (Home Loans Assistance) Regulations 2018.

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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 Force (Home Loans Assistance) Act 1990.

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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

Home Loans Act means the Defence Force (Home Loans Assistance) Act 1990.

6  Use and disclosure of personal information—prescribed purposes

  For the purposes of subsection 36A(2) of the Act, the following purposes are prescribed:

 (a) determining whether or not a person is eligible for the payment of subsidy under the Defence Home Ownership Assistance Scheme Act 2008, including whether or not a member continues to be eligible under that Act;

 (b) determining the amount of subsidy payable on a loan to a person under the Home Loans Act, including correcting or updating the amount of subsidy payable;

 (c) deciding whether or not an amount of subsidy on a loan to a person should be paid under the Home Loans Act;

 (d) identifying an error in relation to, or an overpayment of, an amount of subsidy on a loan to a person under the Home Loans Act;

 (e) implementing the findings of the internal review of a decision under the Defence Home Ownership Assistance Scheme Act 2008;

 (f) administering requirements in relation to eligibility and entitlements under the Home Loans Act, including correcting or updating the amount of subsidy paid on a loan to a person;

 (g) any other purpose that is reasonably necessary for the administration of the Home Loans Act.

Schedule 1—Repeals

Defence Force (Home Loans Assistance) Regulations 1991

1  The whole of the instrument

Repeal the instrument.