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Help to Buy Act 2024
No. 124, 2024
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C2024A00124
10 December 2024
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20 February 2025
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Part 1—Preliminary
Division 1—Preliminary
1 Short title
2 Commencement
3 Object of this Act
4 Simplified outline of this Act
Division 2—Definitions
5 Definitions
6 Meaning of Help to Buy arrangement
7 Meaning of shared equity arrangement
Division 3—Other matters
8 Crown to be bound
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Part 2—Help to Buy functions of Housing Australia
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Division 1—Participating States and Territories
9 Purpose of this Division
10 Help to Buy functions of Housing Australia—participating States and Territories
11 Help to Buy powers of Housing Australia—participating States and Territories
12 Limitations on Help to Buy powers of Housing Australia—participating States and Territories
13 Reporting—participating States and Territories
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Division 2—Cooperating States
14 Purpose of this Division
15 Help to Buy functions of Housing Australia—cooperating States
16 Help to Buy powers of Housing Australia—cooperating States
17 Limitations on Help to Buy powers of Housing Australia—cooperating States
18 Reporting—cooperating States
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Division 3—Withdrawn States
19 Purpose of this Division
20 Help to Buy functions of Housing Australia—withdrawn States
21 Help to Buy powers of Housing Australia—withdrawn States
22 Limitations on Help to Buy powers of Housing Australia—withdrawn States
23 Reporting—withdrawn States
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Part 3—Help to Buy Program Directions
24 Help to Buy Program Directions
25 Matters covered by Help to Buy Program Directions
26 Limits on Help to Buy Program Directions
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Part 4—Finance
27 Provision of contributions by Commonwealth
28 Payment of returns to Commonwealth
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Part 5—Miscellaneous
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Division 1—Provisions relating to the constitutional basis of this Act etc.
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Subdivision A—General provisions
29 Simplified outline of this Division
30 Definitions
31 Versions of this Act
Subdivision B—Definitions of primary, residual and amendment matters
32 Meaning of primary matters
33 Meaning of residual matters
34 Meaning of amendment matters
Subdivision C—Definitions of participating, cooperating and withdrawn States
35 Meaning of participating State
36 Meaning of cooperating State
37 Meaning of withdrawn State
Subdivision D—Constitutional basis of provisions relating to withdrawn States
38 Constitutional basis of provisions relating to withdrawn States
Division 2—Interaction with other laws
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Subdivision A—Interaction with other Commonwealth laws
39 Interaction with the Housing Australia Act 2018
40 Application of the Lands Acquisition Act 1989
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Subdivision B—Interaction with State and Territory laws
41 Concurrent operation of State and Territory laws
41A When Help to Buy program does not apply—exclusion by law of State or Territory
42 Avoiding inconsistency with State and Territory laws
42A Declarations and regulations
42B Excluded provisions
42C Preservation of Commonwealth entitlement and security
42D Modification of Help to Buy program
Division 3—Other matters
43 Review by Administrative Appeals Tribunal
44 Matters to be included in annual reports
45 Review of operation of Help to Buy program
Division 4—Legislative instruments
46 Approval of States and Territories required for regulations and other legislative instruments
47 Regulations
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Part 6—Application and transitional provisions
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Division 1—Provisions relating to this Act as originally enacted
48 Consultation may occur wholly or partly before commencement
