First Home Owner Grant Act 2000

The Treasurer may, by written instrument, declare 1 or more grant relief measures if —

a declaration (an emergency declaration) of any of the following kinds has been made —

an emergency situation declaration under the Emergency Management Act 2005 section 50;

a state of emergency declaration under the Emergency Management Act 2005 section 56;

a public health state of emergency declaration under the Public Health Act 2016 section 167;

the Treasurer considers that the grant relief measure or measures are necessary to provide relief to persons eligible for the first home owner grant for the purpose of alleviating the financial or economic effects of the emergency to which the emergency declaration relates.

An instrument made under subsection (1), as amended from time to time under section 64C, is a grant relief declaration.

A grant relief declaration must specify the emergency declaration (the relevant emergency declaration) in relation to which it is made.

A grant relief declaration must set out a description of each declared grant relief measure, including by specifying —

the transactions to which the measure applies, which may be all transactions or transactions that meet specified eligibility conditions for the measure; and

the period in which the commencement dates of those transactions occur; and

the persons to whom the measure applies, which may be all persons or persons who meet specified eligibility conditions for the measure.

The Treasurer cannot make a grant relief declaration more than 12 months after the day on which the relevant emergency declaration ceases to be in force.

A period specified under subsection (4)(b) —

must not be longer than 2 years; and

subject to subsection (1)(b) —

is not limited by reference to when the grant relief declaration is made; and

is not limited by reference to the period for which the relevant emergency declaration is in force, except that it must not be a period that is wholly before that period.