New South Wales Consolidated Acts

FIRST HOME OWNER GRANT ACT 2000 - SECT 21

21 Imposition of conditions by Chief Commissioner

(1) The Chief Commissioner may authorise the payment of a first home owner grant on conditions the Chief Commissioner considers appropriate.

(2) A condition imposed by the Chief Commissioner (under this section or any other provision of this Act) may require a person on whose application the first home owner grant is paid:

(a) to give notice of non-compliance with the condition within a period stated in the condition, and

(b) to repay the grant or a part of the grant within a period stated in the condition.

(3) In the case of a joint application, each applicant is individually liable to comply with a requirement under subsection (2) but compliance by any one or more of them is to be regarded as compliance by both or all.

(4) A person who fails to comply with a condition imposed by the Chief Commissioner (under this section or any other provision of this Act) is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty (subsection (4)): 50 penalty units.