South Australian Consolidated Acts

HOUSING IMPROVEMENT ACT 1940 - SECT 60

60—Provision of certain information by housing authority

        (1)         The housing authority shall, upon receiving a written application and upon payment of the prescribed fee, provide the applicant with a statement in writing—

            (a)         as to whether, as at the date of the statement—

                  (i)         a notice stating the intention of the housing authority to declare the house described in the application to be substandard has been served upon the owner, or upon a registered mortgagee, of the land on which the house is situated and, if so, the date of service of the notice and the housing authority's reasons, at the date of the statement, for holding the view that the house is undesirable or unfit for human habitation;

                  (ii)         a notice declaring the house to be substandard has been published in the Gazette and is in force and, if so, the date of publication;

                  (iii)         a notice fixing the maximum rental payable in respect of the house has been published in the Gazette and is in force and, if so, the amount of the maximum rental; and

            (b)         containing such other information as may be required by regulation.

        (2)         Subsection (1)(a)(i) does not apply to a notice that has been withdrawn by the housing authority.