South Australian Consolidated Acts

SOUTH AUSTRALIAN HOUSING TRUST ACT 1995 - SCHEDULE 2

Schedule 2—Transitional provisions

1—Staff

        (1)         This Act does not affect—

            (a)         the conditions of employment of a person who was a member of the staff of SAHT immediately before the repeal of the South Australian Housing Trust Act 1936 ; or

            (b)         a process commenced for variation of those conditions.

        (2)         However, subject to the operation of subclause (1), the Governor may, by proclamation, transfer the employment of a person who is an employee of SAHT to—

            (a)         the Department; or

            (b)         a statutory corporation.

2—Transfer of property etc

        (1)         The Governor may, by proclamation, vest an asset, right or liability of SAHT in—

            (a)         the Crown; or

            (b)         the Minister; or

            (c)         an agent or instrumentality of the Crown; or

            (d)         a statutory corporation or SACHA.

        (2)         The vesting of property by this clause, and an instrument evidencing or giving effect to that vesting, are exempt from stamp duty.

        (3)         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 vesting under this clause.

        (4)         An instrument relating to an asset, right or liability that has vested in a body under this clause must, if the instrument is executed by the body and is otherwise in an appropriate form, be registered or recorded by the Registrar-General or another appropriate authority despite the fact that the body has not been registered or recorded as the proprietor of the property under subclause (3).

3—Code of practice and charter

SAHT must prepare the code of practice and charter required by section 30 within six months after the commencement of this Act.

4—Water rates

A regulation under section 30 of the South Australian Housing Trust Act 1936 in force immediately before the repeal of that Act will continue in force on and after that repeal for the purposes of tenancy agreements to which that section applied (and the regulation may, until revoked, be varied by the Governor from time to time).

5—Regulations

The regulations may contain other provisions of a saving or transitional nature consequent on the enactment of this Act.