South Australian Consolidated Acts

SOUTH AUSTRALIAN HOUSING TRUST ACT 1995 - NOTES

Legislative history

Notes

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Legislation repealed by principal Act

The South Australian Housing Trust Act 1995 repealed the following:

Country Housing Act 1958

South Australian Housing Trust Act 1936

Legislation amended by principal Act

The South Australian Housing Trust Act 1995 amended the following:

Housing and Urban Development (Administrative Arrangements) Act 1995

Housing Improvement Act 1940

Principal Act and amendments

New entries appear in bold.

Year	No	Title	Assent	Commencement
1995	109	South Australian Housing Trust Act 1995	21.12.1995	1.1.1996 (Gazette 21.12.1995 p1759)
1999	33	Financial Sector Reform (South Australia) Act 1999	17.6.1999	Sch (item 50)—1.7.1999 being the date specified under s 3(16) of the Financial Sector Reform (Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Act (No. 1) 1999 of the Commonwealth as the transfer date for the purposes of that Act: s 2(2)
2006	43	Statutes Amendment (Domestic Partners) Act 2006	14.12.2006	Pt 79 (s 194 )—1.6.2007 (Gazette 26.4.2007 p1352)
2007	20	Statutes Amendment (Affordable Housing) Act 2007	14.6.2007	Pt 2 (ss 4—20) & Sch 1—1.7.2007 (Gazette 28.6.2007 p2826)
2009	84	Statutes Amendment (Public Sector Consequential Amendments) Act 2009	10.12.2009	Pt 138 (ss 314—317)—1.2.2010 (Gazette 28.1.2010 p320)

Provisions amended

New entries appear in bold.

Entries that relate to provisions that have been deleted appear in italics.

Provision	How varied	Commencement
Long title	amended under Legislation Revision and Publication Act 2002
Pt 1
s 2	omitted under Legislation Revision and Publication Act 2002
s 3
s 3(1)
Chief Executive	inserted by 20/2007 s 4(1)	1.7.2007
Department	substituted by 20/2007 s 4(2)	1.7.2007
domestic partner	inserted by 43/2006 s 194(1)	1.6.2007
	deleted by 84/2009 s 314(1)	1.2.2010
relative	amended by 43/2006 s 194(2)	1.6.2007
	deleted by 84/2009 s 314(2)	1.2.2010
relevant interest	deleted by 84/2009 s 314(2)	1.2.2010
SACHA	deleted by 20/2007 s 4(3)	1.7.2007
spouse	substituted by 43/2006 s 194(3)	1.6.2007
	deleted by 84/2009 s 314(3)	1.2.2010
s 3(2)	amended by 43/2006 s 194(4)	1.6.2007
	deleted by 84/2009 s 314(4)	1.2.2010
Pt 2
Pt 2 Div 1
s 5
s 5(1)	amended by 20/2007 s 5(1), (2)	1.7.2007
	(e) deleted by 20/2007 s 5(2)	1.7.2007
s 5(3)	amended by 20/2007 s 5(3)—(5)	1.7.2007
s 5(4) and (5)	inserted by 20/2007 s 5(6)	1.7.2007
s 7
s 7(1)	amended by 20/2007 s 6(1)—(3)	1.7.2007
s 7(3) and (4)	inserted by 20/2007 s 6(4)	1.7.2007
Pt Div 3
s 12	substituted by 84/2009 s 315	1.2.2010
s 13	deleted by 84/2009 s 315	1.2.2010
s 14
s 14(2)—(4)	deleted by 84/2009 s 316	1.2.2010
s 16
s 16(1)	amended by 20/2007 s 7	1.7.2007
Pt 2 Div 4	substituted by 20/2007 s 8	1.7.2007
Pt 2 Div 5
s 18
s 18(1)	substituted by 20/2007 s 9(1)	1.7.2007
s 18(1a)	inserted by 20/2007 s 9(1)	1.7.2007
s 18(2) and (3)	substituted by 20/2007 s 9(1)	1.7.2007
s 18(4)	amended by 20/2007 s 9(2)	1.7.2007
s 19
s 19(1)	amended by 20/2007 s 10(1)	1.7.2007
s 19(2)	amended by 20/2007 s 10(2)	1.7.2007
Pt 2 Div 6
s 21
s 21(1)	amended by 33/1999 Sch (item 50)	1.7.1999
s 21(3)	amended by 20/2007 s 11	1.7.2007
s 21A	inserted by 20/2007 s 12	1.7.2007
s 23
s 23(1)	amended by 20/2007 s 13(1)	1.7.2007
s 23(3)	substituted by 20/2007 s 13(2)	1.7.2007
s 26
s 26(7)	amended by 20/2007 s 14	1.7.2007
s 27
s 27(2a)	inserted by 20/2007 s 15	1.7.2007
Pt 2 Div 7
ss 30 and 31	deleted by 20/2007 s 16	1.7.2007
Pt 3A	inserted by 20/2007 s 17	1.7.2007
s 32B
s 32B(8)	amended by 84/2009 s 317(1)	1.2.2010
s 32B(9) and (10)	deleted by 84/2009 s 317(2)	1.2.2010
Pt 4
s 39A	inserted by 20/2007 s 18	1.7.2007
s 42A	inserted by 20/2007 s 19	1.7.2007
s 43A	inserted by 20/2007 s 20	1.7.2007
Sch 1	omitted under Legislation Revision and Publication Act 2002

Transitional etc provisions associated with Act or amendments

Statutes Amendment (Affordable Housing) Act 2007, Sch 1—Transitional provisions

1—Interpretation

In this Schedule, unless the contrary intention appears—

asset includes—

(a) a present, contingent or future legal or equitable estate or interest in real or personal property; or

(b) a present, contingent or future right, power, privilege or immunity;

liability includes a present, contingent or future liability or obligation (including a non-pecuniary obligation);

SACHA means the South Australian Community Housing Authority;

SAHT means the South Australian Housing Trust.

2—Public Housing Appeal Panel

(1) A person who, immediately before the commencement of this clause, holds office as a member of the Public Housing Appeal Panel (being the panel of that name established by the Minister for Housing, Urban Development and Local Government Relations in 1995) will be taken to have been appointed as a member of the Housing Appeal Panel established under Part 3A of the South Australian Housing Trust Act 1995 (as inserted by this Act) for the balance of his or her term of appointment to the Public Housing Appeal Panel (and on the same conditions of appointment).

(2) Any proceedings—

(a) before the Public Housing Appeal Panel; or

(b) before a relevant appeal authority under Part 11 of the South Australian Co-operative and Community Housing Act 1991 (as it applies immediately before the commencement of this clause),

will be continued and completed before the Housing Appeal Panel as if they had been commenced before the Housing Appeal Panel.

(3) The Housing Appeal Panel may make any order or determination in connection with the operation of subclause (2).

3—Property—SACHA

(1) Subject to subclause (2), all assets, rights and liabilities of SACHA (including under any funding agreement or statutory charge under the South Australian Co-operative and Community Housing Act 1991), and all assets and rights arising from the South Australian Community Housing Development Fund, are transferred to SAHT.

(2) Subclause (1) does not apply to an asset, right or liability transferred by the Minister, by notice in the Gazette, to—

(a) the Crown; or

(b) the Minister; or

(c) a subsidiary of SAHT; or

(d) another agency or instrumentality of the Crown.

(3) The transfer of assets, rights and liabilities under this clause operates by force of this clause and despite the provisions of any other law.

(4) The Registrar-General or another authority required or authorised under a law of the State to register or record transactions affecting assets, rights or liabilities, or documents relating to such transactions, must, on application under this clause, register or record in an appropriate manner a transfer and vesting under this clause.

(5) No fee is payable in respect of an application under subclause (4).

4—References—SACHA

(1) Subject to subclause (2), all references in any instrument or contract, agreement or other document to SACHA will have effect as if it were a reference to—

(a) SAHT; or

(b) if the Minister so determines by notice in the Gazette—the Minister.

(2) Subclause (1) does not apply to any reference excluded by the Minister by notice in the Gazette.

(3) Subclause (1) has effect despite the provisions of any other law or instrument.

5—Procedures and proceedings—SACHA

Any procedure or proceedings commenced by SACHA before the commencement of this clause but which had not been finally determined at the commencement of this clause may be continued or completed by the Minister or by SAHT.

6—Other provisions

(1) Nothing done under this Schedule—

(a) constitutes a breach of, or default under, an Act or other law; or

(b) constitutes a breach of, or default under, a contract, agreement, understanding or undertaking; or

(c) constitutes a breach of a duty of confidence (whether arising by contract, in equity or by custom or in any other way); or

(d) constitutes a civil or criminal wrong; or

(e) terminates an agreement or obligation or fulfils any condition that allows a person to terminate an agreement or obligation, or gives rise to any other right or remedy; or

(f) releases a surety or other obligee wholly or in part from an obligation.

(2) The Governor may, by regulation, make any other provision of a saving or transitional nature consequent on the enactment of this Act.

(3) The Acts Interpretation Act 1915 will, except to the extent of any inconsistency with the provisions of this Schedule, apply with respect to the amendments effected by this Act.

Historical versions

Reprint No 1—1.7.1999
1.6.2007
1.7.2007