Help to Buy (Commonwealth Powers) Act 2026

In this Act – adoption means the adoption under section 4(1)(a) or (b); amendment matters means – matters relating to the provision of Commonwealth financial assistance for the purpose of assisting individuals to buy a home, where the financial assistance is provided under a Help to Buy arrangement that – relates to residential property located in a State; and is entered into while the State is a participating State; and without limiting paragraph (a), matters relating to – entering into Help to Buy arrangements that satisfy the conditions mentioned in that paragraph; and administering Help to Buy arrangements of that kind; and monitoring compliance with Help to Buy arrangements of that kind; and doing anything incidental or conducive to anything mentioned in this paragraph; amendment reference means the reference of matters under section 6(1);Commonwealth Help to Buy Act means the Help to Buy Act 2024 of the Commonwealth; express amendment, of the Commonwealth Help to Buy Act, means the direct amendment of the text of that Act (whether by insertion, omission, repeal, substitution or relocation) by another Commonwealth Act, or by an instrument under a Commonwealth Act, but does not include the enactment of a Commonwealth Act that has, or will have, a substantive effect other than as part of the text of the Commonwealth Help to Buy Act;Help to Buy arrangement has the same meaning as in the Commonwealth Help to Buy Act;Housing Australia has the same meaning as in the Housing Australia Act 2018 of the Commonwealth; primary version means the version of the Commonwealth Help to Buy Act, as originally enacted and as amended from time to time before the commencement of section 4, other than – Divisions 2 and 3 of Part 2 of that Act; and sections 24(1)(a)(ii), 25(3)(b) and (c) and 38 of that Act; residential property has the same meaning as in the Commonwealth Help to Buy Act; residual version means the version of the Commonwealth Help to Buy Act, as originally enacted and as amended from time to time before the commencement of section 4, other than – Divisions 1 and 3 of Part 2 of that Act; and sections 24(1)(a)(i), 25(3)(a) and (c) and 38 of that Act.

Words and expressions used in this Act that are defined in the Commonwealth Help to Buy Act have, unless the contrary intention appears, the same meaning in this Act as they have in the Commonwealth Help to Buy Act.