✨ Housing Support Assistance Amendment
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 69 — 25 JUNE 2015
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following instrument.
I n s t r u m e n t
1. Title—This instrument is the Housing Support Assistance Amendment 2015.
2. Commencement—This instrument comes into force on 29 June 2015.
3. Principal programme—This instrument amends the Housing Support Assistance Programme (as established and approved on 26 June 2014)¹ (the principal programme).
4. Clause 4 amended (Interpretation)—(1) In clause 4(1), definition of applicant, after paragraph (b), insert:
“(ba) includes a person to whom the chief executive is considering whether to grant assistance under Part 3; and”.
(2) In clause 4(1), definition of letting fees assistance, replace “recoverable” with “non-recoverable”.
(3) In clause 4(1), insert, in their appropriate alphabetical order:
“conditional grant letter assistance is the assistance under Part 3
rent in advance assistance is the non-recoverable assistance under subpart 6 of Part 2”.
5. Clause 6 amended (Assistance is discretionary)—(1) In clause 6, after “Part 2”, insert “or Part 3” in each place.
(2) In clause 6(3), replace “and 25” with “25, 41, and 47”.
(3) In clause 6(3), replace “or letting fees assistance” with “letting fees assistance, rent in advance assistance, or conditional grant letter assistance”.
(4) In clause 6, after subclause (2), insert:
“(2A) Subclause (1) is also subject to clause 6A.”
6. New clause 6A inserted
After clause 6, insert:
“6A Relationship between Part 2 and Part 3
(1) Despite clause 6(1), an applicant who has been granted conditional grant letter assistance under Part 3 must not, during the period specified by the chief executive under clause 49, be granted bond assistance, letting fees assistance, or rent in advance assistance under Part 2.
(2) Despite clause 6(1), if a component of conditional grant letter assistance granted to an applicant has been paid under clause 52, a grant of assistance under Part 2 for the same costs must only be made, within the appropriate limit set out in Part 2, to assist with costs in excess of the component of conditional grant letter assistance paid.”
7. Clause 8 amended (Application for assistance required)
In clause 8(1), after “under”, insert “Part 2 of”.
8. Clause 9 amended (Payment of assistance)
In clause 9(b), after “former”, insert “, current,”.
9. Clause 23 amended (Purpose of this subpart)
In clause 23, replace “recoverable” with “non-recoverable”.
10. Clause 28 revoked (Letting fees assistance recoverable)
Revoke clause 28.
11. New Subpart 6 inserted
In Part 2, after subpart 5, insert:
“Subpart 6—Rent in advance assistance
39 Purpose of this subpart
The purpose of this subpart is to provide grants of non-recoverable financial assistance to specified people towards rent in advance required by their landlords to enter alternative housing to help alleviate hardship of having to meet that payment from their immediately available resources.
40 Rent in advance assistance: eligibility
(1) An applicant who meets the residential criteria is eligible to be considered for rent in advance assistance under this programme if,—
(a) the applicant (whether alone or together with any other person) is either—”
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