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Definitions

In force

(1)

In this Act—

adoption means the adoption under section 4(1)(a) or (b);

amendment matters—

(a)

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—

(i)

relates to residential property located in a State; and

(ii)

is entered into while the State is a participating State; and

(b)

without limiting paragraph (a), means matters relating to—

(i)

entering into Help to Buy arrangements that satisfy the conditions mentioned in paragraph (a)(i) and (ii); and

(ii)

administering Help to Buy arrangements of that kind; and

(iii)

monitoring compliance with Help to Buy arrangements of that kind; and

(iv)

doing anything incidental or conducive to anything mentioned in subparagraph (i), (ii) or (iii);

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 of words or matter) by another Commonwealth Act or by an instrument under a Commonwealth Act, but does not include the enactment by a Commonwealth Act of a provision that has or will have substantive effect otherwise 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primary version means the relevant version of the Commonwealth Help to Buy Act as originally enacted and as amended from time to time before the commencement of section 4, other than—

(a)

Divisions 2 and 3 of Part 2 of that Act; and

(b)

sections 24(1)(a)(ii), 25(3)(b) and (c) and 38 of that Act;

residual version means the relevant version of the Commonwealth Help to Buy Act as originally enacted and as amended from time to time before the commencement of section 4, other than—

(a)

Divisions 1 and 3 of Part 2 of that Act; and

(b)

sections 24(1)(a)(i), 25(3)(a) and (c) and 38 of that Act.

(2)

Unless the contrary intention appears, words defined in the Commonwealth Help to Buy Act and otherwise used in this Act have the same meaning in this Act as they have in the Commonwealth Help to Buy Act.

Part 2—Adoption of versions of the Commonwealth Help to Buy Act

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