{"id":"a-2013-18","name":"Community Housing Providers National Law (ACT) Act 2013","slug":"community-housing-providers-national-law-act-act-2013","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"act","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":"18 of 2013","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":23251,"registerId":"act-a-2013-18-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-01","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Community Housing Providers National Law (ACT) Act 2013","content":"Authorised by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel—also accessible at www.legislation.act.gov.au\nAustralian Capital Territory\nCommunity Housing Providers National\nLaw (ACT) Act 2013\nA2013-18\nRepublication No 2\nEffective: 2 July 2016\nRepublication date: 2 July 2016\nAct not amended\n(republication for expiry of transitional provisions (pt 5))\n\nAuthorised by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel—also accessible at www.legislation.act.gov.au\nAbout this republication\nThe republished law\nThis is a republication of the Community Housing Providers National Law (ACT) Act 2013\n(including any amendment made under the Legislation Act 2001, part 11.3 (Editorial changes))\nas in force on 2 July 2016. It also includes any commencement, repeal or expiry affecting this\nrepublished law.\nThe legislation history and amendment history of the republished law are set out in endnotes 3\nand 4.\nKinds of republications\nThe Parliamentary Counsel’s Office prepares 2 kinds of republications of ACT laws (see the ACT\nlegislation register at www.legislation.act.gov.au):\n• authorised republications to which the Legislation Act 2001 applies\n• unauthorised republications.\nThe status of this republication appears on the bottom of each page.\nEditorial changes\nThe Legislation Act 2001, part 11.3 authorises the Parliamentary Counsel to make editorial\namendments and other changes of a formal nature when preparing a law for republication.\nEditorial changes do not change the effect of the law, but have effect as if they had been made by\nan Act commencing on the republication date (see Legislation Act 2001, s 115 and s 117). The\nchanges are made if the Parliamentary Counsel considers they are desirable to bring the law into\nline, or more closely into line, with current legislative drafting practice.\nThis republication does not include amendments made under part 11.3 (see endnote 1).\nUncommenced provisions and amendments\nIf a provision of the republished law has not commenced, the symbol U appears immediately\nbefore the provision heading. Any uncommenced amendments that affect this republished law\nare accessible on the ACT legislation register (www.legislation.act.gov.au). For more\ninformation, see the home page for this law on the register.\nModifications\nIf a provision of the republished law is affected by a current modification, the\nsymbol M appears immediately before the provision heading. The text of the modifying\nprovision appears in the endnotes. For the legal status of modifications, see the Legislation Act\n2001, section 95.\nPenalties\nAt the republication date, the value of a penalty unit for an offence against this law is $150 for an\nindividual and $750 for a corporation (see Legislation Act 2001, s 133).\n\nR2\n02/07/16\nCommunity Housing Providers National Law (ACT)\nAct 2013\nEffective: 02/07/16\ncontents 1\nAuthorised by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel—also accessible at www.legislation.act.gov.au\nAustralian Capital Territory\nCommunity Housing Providers National\nLaw (ACT) Act 2013\nContents\nPage\nPart 1 Preliminary\n1 Name of Act 2\n3 Dictionary 2\n4 Terms used in Community Housing Providers National Law (ACT) 2\n5 Notes 2\n6 Objects of Act 3\nPart 2 Application of Community Housing Providers\nNational Law\n7 Application of Community Housing Providers National Law 4\n8 Meaning of certain terms 5\n9 Housing agency 5\n\nContents\nPage\ncontents 2 Community Housing Providers National Law (ACT)\nAct 2013\nEffective: 02/07/16\nR2\n02/07/16\nAuthorised by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel—also accessible at www.legislation.act.gov.au\n10 Relevant Minister 5\n11 Registrar 5\n12 Delegation of registrar’s functions 6\n13 Application of Legislation Act 6\n14 Determination of fees 6\n15 Approved forms 7\nPart 3 Miscellaneous\n16 Regulation-making power 8\nDictionary 9\nEndnotes\n1 About the endnotes 10\n2 Abbreviation key 10\n3 Legislation history 11\n4 Amendment history 11\n5 Earlier republications 12\n6 Expired transitional or validating provisions 12\n\nR2\n02/07/16\nCommunity Housing Providers National Law (ACT)\nAct 2013\nEffective: 02/07/16\npage 1\nAuthorised by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel—also accessible at www.legislation.act.gov.au\nAustralian Capital Territory\nCommunity Housing Providers National\nLaw (ACT) Act 2013\nAn Act to apply a national law about the registration and regulation of community\nhousing providers, and for other purposes\n\nPart 1 Preliminary\nSection 1\npage 2 Community Housing Providers National Law (ACT)\nAct 2013\nEffective: 02/07/16\nR2\n02/07/16\nAuthorised by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel—also accessible at www.legislation.act.gov.au\nPart 1 Preliminary\n1 Name of Act\nThis Act is the Community Housing Providers National Law (ACT)\nAct 2013.\n3 Dictionary\nThe dictionary at the end of this Act is part of this Act.\nNote 1 The dictionary at the end of this Act defines certain terms used in this\nAct.\nNote 2 A definition in the dictionary applies to the entire Act unless the\ndefinition, or another provision of the Act, provides otherwise or the\ncontrary intention otherwise appears (see Legislation Act, s 155 and\ns 156 (1)).\n4 Terms used in Community Housing Providers National\nLaw (ACT)\nTerms used in this Act and also in the Community Housing Providers\nNational Law (ACT) have the same meaning in this Act as they have\nin that Law.\nNote A definition in an Act applies except so far as the contrary intention\nappears (see Legislation Act, s 155).\n5 Notes\nA note included in this Act is explanatory and is not part of this Act.\nNote See the Legislation Act, s 127 (1), (4) and (5) for the legal status of notes.\n\nPreliminary Part 1\nSection 6\nR2\n02/07/16\nCommunity Housing Providers National Law (ACT)\nAct 2013\nEffective: 02/07/16\npage 3\nAuthorised by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel—also accessible at www.legislation.act.gov.au\n6 Objects of Act\nThe objects of this Act are to—\n(a) apply as a territory law a national law for the registration and\nregulation of community housing providers under a national\nsystem of registration; and\n(b) facilitate investment in the community housing sector and\nensure the protection of that investment; and\n(c) ensure that registered community housing is developed as a\nviable and diversified component of the ACT social housing\nsector; and\n(d) support the provision of registered community housing for\npeople on a very low, low or moderate income.\n\nPart 2 Application of Community Housing Providers National Law\nSection 7\npage 4 Community Housing Providers National Law (ACT)\nAct 2013\nEffective: 02/07/16\nR2\n02/07/16\nAuthorised by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel—also accessible at www.legislation.act.gov.au\nPart 2 Application of Community\nHousing Providers National Law\n7 Application of Community Housing Providers National\nLaw\n(1) Subject to this section, the Community Housing Providers National\nLaw, as in force from time to time, set out in the appendix to the NSW\nAct (other than the Law, section 24 (No compensation payable by\nState))—\n(a) applies as a territory law; and\n(b) as so applying may be referred to as the Community Housing\nProviders National Law (ACT); and\n(c) so applies as if it were part of this Act.\n(2) A law that amends the Community Housing Providers National Law\nset out in the appendix to the NSW Act that is passed by the New\nSouth Wales Parliament after this Act’s notification day must be\npresented to the Legislative Assembly not later than 6 sitting days\nafter the day it is passed.\n(3) The amending law may be disallowed by the Legislative Assembly in\nthe same way, and within the same period, that a disallowable\ninstrument may be disallowed.\nNote See the Legislation Act, s 65 (Disallowance by resolution of Assembly).\n(4) If the amending law is not presented to the Legislative Assembly in\naccordance with subsection (2), or is disallowed under subsection (3),\nthe Community Housing Providers National Law applying under\nsubsection (1) is taken—\n(a) not to include the amendments made by the amending law; and\n(b) to include any provision repealed or amended by the amending\nlaw as if the amending law had not been made.\n\nApplication of Community Housing Providers National Law Part 2\nSection 8\nR2\n02/07/16\nCommunity Housing Providers National Law (ACT)\nAct 2013\nEffective: 02/07/16\npage 5\nAuthorised by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel—also accessible at www.legislation.act.gov.au\n(5) In this section:\nNSW Act means the Community Housing Providers (Adoption of\nNational Law) Act 2012 (NSW).\nNote The NSW Act is accessible at www.legislation.nsw.gov.au.\n8 Meaning of certain terms\nIn the Community Housing Providers National Law (ACT):\nAppeal Tribunal means the ACAT.\nthis jurisdiction means the ACT.\n9 Housing agency\nFor the definition of Housing Agency in the Community Housing\nProviders National Law (ACT), section 4 (1)—\n(a) the housing commissioner or another Territory entity is a\nHousing Agency for the definition of community housing asset\nin the Law, section 4 (1); and\n(b) the housing commissioner is a Housing Agency for any other\nprovision of the Law.\n10 Relevant Minister\nFor the definition of relevant Minister in the Community Housing\nProviders National Law (ACT), section 4 (1), the Minister responsible\nfor administering this Act is the relevant Minister.\n11 Registrar\nFor the Community Housing Providers National Law (ACT),\nsection 9 (2), the director-general is the Registrar.\n\nPart 2 Application of Community Housing Providers National Law\nSection 12\npage 6 Community Housing Providers National Law (ACT)\nAct 2013\nEffective: 02/07/16\nR2\n02/07/16\nAuthorised by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel—also accessible at www.legislation.act.gov.au\n12 Delegation of registrar’s functions\nFor the Community Housing Providers National Law (ACT),\nsection 11 (1) (b), a public servant is a declared person.\n13 Application of Legislation Act\n(1) The Legislation Act does not apply to the Community Housing\nProviders National Law (ACT).\nNote A reference to the Law includes a reference to the statutory instruments\nmade or in force under the Law (see Legislation Act, s 104).\n(2) Subsection (1) does not limit the application of the Legislation Act to\nthis Act.\n14 Determination of fees\n(1) The Minister may determine fees for the Community Housing\nProviders National Law (ACT), section 13 (4) as if the Law were an\nAct.\nNote The Legislation Act contains provisions about the making of\ndeterminations and regulations relating to fees (see pt 6.3).\n(2) A determination is a disallowable instrument.\nNote A disallowable instrument must be notified, and presented to the\nLegislative Assembly, under the Legislation Act.\n\nApplication of Community Housing Providers National Law Part 2\nSection 15\nR2\n02/07/16\nCommunity Housing Providers National Law (ACT)\nAct 2013\nEffective: 02/07/16\npage 7\nAuthorised by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel—also accessible at www.legislation.act.gov.au\n15 Approved forms\n(1) The Registrar may approve forms for the Community Housing\nProviders National Law (ACT), section 13 (4) as if the Law were an\nAct.\n(2) If the Registrar approves a form for a particular purpose, the approved\nform must be used for that purpose.\nNote For other provisions about forms, see the Legislation Act, s 255.\n(3) An approved form is a notifiable instrument.\nNote A notifiable instrument must be notified under the Legislation Act.\n\nPart 3 Miscellaneous\nSection 16\npage 8 Community Housing Providers National Law (ACT)\nAct 2013\nEffective: 02/07/16\nR2\n02/07/16\nAuthorised by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel—also accessible at www.legislation.act.gov.au\nPart 3 Miscellaneous\n16 Regulation-making power\nThe Executive may make regulations for this Act.\nNote A regulation must be notified, and presented to the Legislative Assembly,\nunder the Legislation Act.\n\nDictionary\nR2\n02/07/16\nCommunity Housing Providers National Law (ACT)\nAct 2013\nEffective: 02/07/16\npage 9\nAuthorised by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel—also accessible at www.legislation.act.gov.au\nDictionary\n(see s 3)\nNote 1 The Legislation Act contains definitions and other provisions relevant to\nthis Act.\nNote 2 For example, the Legislation Act, dict, pt 1, defines the following terms:\n• ACAT\n• ACT\n• director-general (see s 163)\n• entity\n• housing commissioner\n• Minister (see s 162)\n• public servant\n• territory law.\nCommunity Housing Providers National Law (ACT) means the\nprovisions applying because of section 7.\n\nEndnotes\n1 About the endnotes\npage 10 Community Housing Providers National Law (ACT)\nAct 2013\nEffective: 02/07/16\nR2\n02/07/16\nAuthorised by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel—also accessible at www.legislation.act.gov.au\nEndnotes\n1 About the endnotes\nAmending and modifying laws are annotated in the legislation history and the\namendment history. Current modifications are not included in the republished law\nbut are set out in the endnotes.\nNot all editorial amendments made under the Legislation Act 2001, part 11.3 are\nannotated in the amendment history. Full details of any amendments can be\nobtained from the Parliamentary Counsel’s Office.\nUncommenced amending laws are not included in the republished law. The details\nof these laws are underlined in the legislation history. Uncommenced expiries are\nunderlined in the legislation history and amendment history.\nIf all the provisions of the law have been renumbered, a table of renumbered\nprovisions gives details of previous and current numbering.\nThe endnotes also include a table of earlier republications.\n2 Abbreviation key\nA = Act NI = Notifiable instrument\nAF = Approved form o = order\nam = amended om = omitted/repealed\namdt = amendment ord = ordinance\nAR = Assembly resolution orig = original\nch = chapter par = paragraph/subparagraph\nCN = Commencement notice pres = present\ndef = definition prev = previous\nDI = Disallowable instrument (prev...) = previously\ndict = dictionary pt = part\ndisallowed = disallowed by the Legislative r = rule/subrule\nAssembly reloc = relocated\ndiv = division renum = renumbered\nexp = expires/expired R[X] = Republication No\nGaz = gazette RI = reissue\nhdg = heading s = section/subsection\nIA = Interpretation Act 1967 sch = schedule\nins = inserted/added sdiv = subdivision\nLA = Legislation Act 2001 SL = Subordinate law\nLR = legislation register sub = substituted\nLRA = Legislation (Republication) Act 1996 underlining = whole or part not commenced\nmod = modified/modification or to be expired\n\nEndnotes\nLegislation history 3\nR2\n02/07/16\nCommunity Housing Providers National Law (ACT)\nAct 2013\nEffective: 02/07/16\npage 11\nAuthorised by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel—also accessible at www.legislation.act.gov.au\n3 Legislation history\nCommunity Housing Providers National Law (ACT) Act 2013\nA2013-18\nnotified LR 23 May 2013\ns 1, s 2 commenced 23 May 2013 (LA s 75 (1))\nremainder commenced 1 January 2014 (s 2 and CN2013-10)\n4 Amendment history\nCommencement\ns 2 om LA s 89 (4)\nConsequential amendments\npt 4 hdg om LA s 89 (3)\nLegislation amended—sch 1\ns 17 om LA s 89 (3)\nTransitional\npt 5 hdg exp 1 July 2016 (s 20)\nAffordable and community housing providers registered under repealed\npart 4A\ns 18 exp 1 July 2016 (s 20)\nTransitional regulations\ns 19 exp 1 July 2016 (s 20)\nExpiry—pt 5\ns 20 exp 1 July 2016 (s 20)\nConsequential amendments\nsch 1 om LA s 89 (3)\n\nEndnotes\n5 Earlier republications\npage 12 Community Housing Providers National Law (ACT)\nAct 2013\nEffective: 02/07/16\nR2\n02/07/16\nAuthorised by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel—also accessible at www.legislation.act.gov.au\n5 Earlier republications\nSome earlier republications were not numbered. The number in column 1 refers to\nthe publication order.\nSince 12 September 2001 every authorised republication has been published in\nelectronic pdf format on the ACT legislation register. A selection of authorised\nrepublications have also been published in printed format. These republications are\nmarked with an asterisk (*) in column 1. Electronic and printed versions of an\nauthorised republication are identical.\nRepublication\nNo and date\nEffective Last\namendment\nmade by\nRepublication\nfor\nR1\n1 Jan 2014\n1 Jan 2014\n1 July 2016\nnot amended new Act\n6 Expired transitional or validating provisions\nThis Act may be affected by transitional or validating provisions that have expired.\nThe expiry does not affect any continuing operation of the provisions (see\nLegislation Act 2001, s 88 (1)).\nExpired provisions are removed from the republished law when the expiry takes\neffect and are listed in the amendment history using the abbreviation ‘exp’ followed\nby the date of the expiry.\nTo find the expired provisions see the version of this Act before the expiry took\neffect. The ACT legislation register has point-in-time versions of this Act.\n© Australian Capital Territory 2016","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[],"contradictions":[]},"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"Unauthenticated. Configure AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY or use a provider module. Learn more: https://ai-sdk.dev/unauthenticated-ai-gateway","source":"analysis-cron"},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The Act remains tightly focused on its original purpose of applying the national law for community housing provider registration and regulation. The republication simply removed expired transitional provisions (Part 5) that dealt with transitioning existing providers into the new scheme, which was always intended to be temporary. The core scope of adopting the national law remains unchanged."},"complexity_factors":["The Act itself is only 8 pages long with 16 sections","Minimal defined terms in the dictionary (only 1 specific definition: 'Community Housing Providers National Law (ACT)')","Relies heavily on external legislation (the NSW Act and the National Law set out in its appendix), which is not reproduced in this document","Simple structure: preliminary provisions, application provisions, and miscellaneous provisions","No nested exceptions or complex conditional logic within the Act itself","The complexity of the actual regulatory scheme is offloaded to the imported National Law"],"plain_english_summary":"This Act adopts the Community Housing Providers National Law (from NSW) as ACT law, with limited local adjustments so the ACT’s Director‑General, Housing Commissioner and ACAT fit into the scheme. It lets the ACT use a ready‑made national regulatory framework rather than drafting its own.\n\nIt affects community housing providers, their tenants, and relevant ACT officials, simplifying cross‑jurisdiction operation and ensuring consistent regulation of affordable housing."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":4,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The republished Act continues to adopt the Community Housing Providers National Law as ACT law and to set the same institutional roles and powers (s7, s6, s10–11). Amendment history and endnotes record expiry of transitional provisions (see s20 and endnotes) but show no substantive narrowing or expansion of the Act’s core scope."},"complexity_factors":["Cross‑jurisdictional adoption: the NSW Act’s National Law is applied as ACT law and depends on NSW amendments unless disallowed or not presented (s7(1)–(4)).","External dependency: the appendix references the NSW Act text, creating reliance on an external legislative source (s7).","Centralised decision‑makers: director‑general designated Registrar and Minister as relevant Minister concentrate operational control (s10–11).","Delegation and administrative staffing: Registrar functions may be delegated to declared public servants, increasing operational discretion (s12).","Regulatory instruments and oversight: fees set by Minister are disallowable instruments (s14); approved forms are notifiable instruments and mandatory (s15(1)–(3)).","Procedural exception: the Legislation Act does not apply to the National Law as adopted, altering usual legislative and instrument processes (s13).","Transitional and expiry history: transitional provisions have expired (endnotes; s20 referenced in amendment history), requiring attention to current vs earlier provisions."],"plain_english_summary":"Mechanically, this Act adopts the Community Housing Providers National Law (the NSW text) as territory law for the ACT, making that national scheme the rulebook for registering and regulating community housing providers (s7). The Act names the director‑general as Registrar (s11), the Minister as the relevant Minister (s10), allows the Minister to set fees (s14) and the Registrar to approve mandatory forms (s15). Its stated purpose is to support and protect investment in community housing and to expand registered community housing for low‑income households (s6); that creates incentives to register while imposing administrative compliance and regulatory discretion."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/community-housing-providers-national-law-act-act-2013","history":"/api/acts/community-housing-providers-national-law-act-act-2013/history","analysis":"/api/acts/community-housing-providers-national-law-act-act-2013/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/community-housing-providers-national-law-act-act-2013/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/community-housing-providers-national-law-act-act-2013/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/community-housing-providers-national-law-act-act-2013/documents"}}