Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SOCIAL SECURITY AND REPATRIATION LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1984 No. 78, 1984 - SECT 5

5. Section 6 of the Principal Act is amended-

(a) by inserting before the definition of ''Australia'' in sub-section (1) the
following definitions:

'' 'absent resident' means a person outside Australia who is-

   (a)  a person whose domicile is in Australia, not being a person whom the
        Director-General is satisfied is a person whose permanent place of
        abode is outside Australia; or

   (b)  a person who is-

        (i)    an eligible employee for the purposes of the Superannuation 
               Act 1976 ; or

        (ii)   the spouse of such an employee;

'adopted child' means a child adopted under the law of any place, whether in
Australia or not, relating to the adoption of children;'';

   (b)  by inserting after the definition of ''Australia'' in sub-section (1)
        the following definition:

'' 'benevolent home' means a home conducted for benevolent purposes which is
wholly or partly maintained by contributions from the Consolidated Revenue
Fund of the Commonwealth or from the consolidated revenue of a State or of the
Northern Territory and is approved by the Director-General for the purposes of
this definition;'';

   (c)  by omitting from sub-section (1) the definition of ''friendly
        society'';

   (d)  by inserting before the definition of ''medical practitioner'' in
        sub-section (1) the following definition:

'' 'Government rent' means-

   (a)  rent payable to any of the following authorities:

        (i)    The Housing Commission of New South Wales;

        (ii)   the Director, within the meaning of the Housing Act 1983
of the State of Victoria;

        (iii)  The Queensland Housing Commission;

        (iv)   The Corporation of the Director of Aboriginal and Islanders
               Advancement established by a law of Queensland;

        (v)    the South Australian Housing Trust;

        (vi)   The State Housing Commission estabished by a law of Western
               Australia;

        (vii)  the Director-General of Housing and Construction holding office
               under a law of Tasmania;

        (viii) the Northern Territory Housing Commission;

   (b)  rent payable to the Commonwealth in respect of any accommodation in
        Glebe in New South Wales; or

   (c)  rent payable to the Commonwealth in respect of any accommodation in
        the Australian Capital Territory or in the Jervis Bay Territory, other
        than rent of a kind specified by the Minister, by notice in writing
        published in the Gazette, for the purposes of this paragraph;'';

   (e)  by omitting from sub-section (1) the definitions of ''mental
        hospital'' and ''mental hospital patient'' and substituting the
        following definitions:

'' 'mental hospital' means premises that the Director-General is satisfied are
premises at which accommodation for mentally ill persons is provided and are
declared by the Director-General, in writing, to be a mental hospital for the
purposes of this definition;

'mental hospital patient' means-

   (a)  a person who has been admitted to a mental hospital as a patient of
        the hospital and is shown on the records of the hospital as a patient
        (other than an out-patient) of the hospital; or

   (b)  a person who is being transferred from one mental hospital to another
        mental hospital, being a person who, immediately before the transfer
        began, was a mental hospital patient within the meaning of paragraph
        (a) at the first-mentioned hospital and who is being so transferred in
        order to become a mental hospital patient, within the meaning of that
        paragraph, at that other hospital;'';

   (f)  by inserting after the definition of ''officer'' in sub-section (1)
        the following definition:

'' 'rent', in relation to a person, means rent, not being Government rent, in
respect of premises, or a part of premises, occupied by the person as the home
of the person and includes amounts payable by the person for-

   (a)  lodging or for board and lodging;

   (b)  the use of the site for-

        (i)    a caravan or other vehicle; or

        (ii)   a structure,

occupied by the person as the home of the person; or

   (c)  the right to moor a vessel that is occupied by the person as the home
        of the person;''; and

   (g)  by omitting sub-section (2) and substituting the following
        sub-section:

''(2) If a law of a State or of the Northern Territory alters the name of an
authority referred to in the definition of 'Government rent' in sub-section
(1), a reference to that authority in that definition shall be construed as a
reference to the authority under the new name.''.