Commonwealth Numbered Acts

HOMES SAVINGS GRANTS ACT 1976 No. 183 of 1976 - SECT 45

PART V-MISCELLANEOUS Payment of grants.
45. (1) A grant to a sole applicant or to joint applicants shall be paid at
such time as the Secretary determines.

(2) A grant to a sole applicant shall be paid to the applicant or, if the
applicant so requests in writing and the Secretary approves, to another person
nominated by the applicant.

(3) Subject to sub-sections (4) and (5) and to section 46, a grant to joint
applications shall be paid to the joint applicants or, if the joint applicants
so request in writing and the Secretary approves, to a person or persons
nominated by the joint applicants.

(4) Where a joint applicant has died before the payment of a grant,
sub-section (3) applies in relation to the payment of the grant as if the
reference in that sub-section to the joint applicants did not include a
reference to the deceased joint applicant.

(5) Where, for any reason, the Secretary considers that it is not practicable
to pay a grant to all the joint applicants in respect of an application, he
may pay the grant to such of those joint applicants as he considers
appropriate.

(6) A grant paid in accordance with a request under sub-section (2) to a
person other than the sole applicant, or paid under sub-section (3) or (5), or
under sub-section 46 (1), otherwise than to all the joint applicants in
respect of an application shall, for the purpose of this Act, be deemed to
have been paid to the sole applicant, or to all the joint applicants (other
than to a joint applicant who is a non-signing applicant referred to in
sub-section 46 (1) and in respect of whom the Secretary has not directed
payment of an amount under sub-section 46 (2)), as the case may be.

(7) A grant under this Act shall not be paid to a person who is an
undischarged bankrupt, and where a joint applicant is an undischarged
bankrupt, sub-section (3) applies in relation to the payment of the grant as
if the reference in that sub-section to the joint applicants did not include a
reference to the bankrupt joint applicant.