{"id":"nt:first-home-owner-grant-regulations-2000","name":"FIRST HOME OWNER GRANT REGULATIONS 2000","slug":"nt-first-home-owner-grant-regulations-2000","collection":"regulation","jurisdiction":"nt","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":349707,"registerId":"nt-first-home-owner-grant-regulations-2000-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-09","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"FIRST HOME OWNER GRANT REGULATIONS 2000","content":"NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA\nFIRST HOME OWNER GRANT REGULATIONS 2000\nAs in force at 1 July 2009\nTable of provisions\n1 Citation ............................................................................................ 1\n2 Commencement .............................................................................. 1\n3 Non-conforming interests that are relevant interests ....................... 1\n4 Persons who are not interested persons ......................................... 2\n5 Prescription of matters for section 13B of Act .................................. 3\n6 Prescription of matters for section 18A of Act .................................. 3\nENDNOTES\n\n\n\nNORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA\n____________________\nAs in force at 1 July 2009\n____________________\nFIRST HOME OWNER GRANT REGULATIONS 2000\nRegulations under the First Home Owner Grant Act 2000\n1 Citation\nThese Regulations may be cited as the First Home Owner Grant\nRegulations 2000.\n2 Commencement\nThese Regulations come into operation 1 July 2000.\n3 Non-conforming interests that are relevant interests\n(1) In pursuance of section 5(4) of the Act, where:\n(a) a person:\n(i) who has entered into a comprehensive home building\ncontract on land used solely or principally for farming\npurposes; or\n(ii) who has not entered into a comprehensive home\nbuilding contract begins building a home, or having a\nhome built, on land used solely or principally for farming\npurposes; and\n(b) the owner of the land has given permission for the person to\noccupy the home when it is completed,\nthe first-mentioned person has a relevant interest in the land.\n(2) In pursuance of section 5(4) of the Act, where:\n(a) a person:\n(i) who has entered into a comprehensive home building\ncontract on land owned by a relative of the person, other\nthan land used solely or principally for farming purposes;\nor\n\nFirst Home Owner Grant Regulations 2000 2\n(ii) who has not entered into a comprehensive home\nbuilding contract begins building a home, or having a\nhome built, on land owned by a relative of the person,\nother than land used solely or principally for farming\npurposes; and\n(b) the relative of the person has given permission for the person\nto occupy the home when it is completed,\nthe first-mentioned person has a relevant interest in the land.\n(3) In this regulation:\nchild, in relation to a person, includes an adopted child of the\nperson and a stepchild of the person.\nfarming purposes, see section 4(1) of the Stamp Duty Act 1978.\nrelative, in relation to a person, means:\n(a) a spouse or de facto partner of the person;\n(b) the parents of the person or the parents of a spouse or de\nfacto partner of the person;\n(c) the grandparents of the person or the grandparents of a\nspouse or de facto partner of the person;\n(d) a sibling of the person or of a spouse or de facto partner of the\nperson;\n(e) a child of the person;\n(f) a child of a child of the person; or\n(g) a spouse or de facto partner of a person referred to in\nparagraph (d), (e) or (f).\n4 Persons who are not interested persons\nThe following persons are excluded from the application of\nsection 15 of the Act:\n(a) the body corporate sole known as the Chief Executive Officer\n(Housing) and established by section 6 of the Housing\nAct 1982;\n(b) the owner of land in which a person has a relevant interest by\nvirtue of regulation 3(1) or (2).\n\nFirst Home Owner Grant Regulations 2000 3\n5 Prescription of matters for section 13B of Act\n(1) For the definition boost scheme amount in section 13B of the Act,\nthe first home owner grant under Part 2, Division 3A of the Act is\n$14 000 for a special eligible transaction with a commencement\ndate during the period:\n(a) starting on and including 1 October 2009; and\n(b) ending on and including 31 December 2009.\n(2) For the definition boost scheme period in section 13B of the Act,\nthe boost scheme period ends on 31 December 2009.\n(3) For the definition off-the-plan contract completion date in\nsection 13B of the Act, the off-the-plan contract completion date is:\n(a) 31 March 2011 for a contract with a commencement date\nduring the period:\n(i) starting on and including 1 July 2009; and\n(ii) ending on and including 30 September 2009; or\n(b) 30 June 2011 for a contract with a commencement date\nduring the period:\n(i) starting on and including 1 October 2009; and\n(ii) ending on and including 31 December 2009.\n6 Prescription of matters for section 18A of Act\n(1) For the definition extended amount in section 18A(6) of the Act,\nthe first home owner grant under that section is $10 500 for an\neligible transaction with a commencement date during the period:\n(a) starting on and including 1 October 2009; and\n(b) ending on and including 31 December 2009.\n(2) For the definition extended period in section 18A(6) of the Act, the\nextended period ends on 31 December 2009.\n\nENDNOTES\nFirst Home Owner Grant Regulations 2000 4\nENDNOTES\n1 KEY\nKey to abbreviations\namd = amended od = order\napp = appendix om = omitted\nbl = by-law pt = Part\nch = Chapter r = regulation/rule\ncl = clause rem = remainder\ndiv = Division renum = renumbered\nexp = expires/expired rep = repealed\nf = forms s = section\nGaz = Gazette sch = Schedule\nhdg = heading sdiv = Subdivision\nins = inserted SL = Subordinate Legislation\nlt = long title sub = substituted\nnc = not commenced\n2 LIST OF LEGISLATION\nFirst Home Owner Grant Regulations (SL No. 33, 2000)\nNotified 30 June 2000\nCommenced 1 July 2000 (r 2)\nAmendment of First Home Owner Grant Regulations (SL No. 37, 2002)\nNotified 9 October 2002\nCommenced 9 October 2002\nLaw Reform (Gender, Sexuality and De Facto Relationships) Act 2003 (Act No. 1, 2004)\nAssent date 7 January 2004\nCommenced 17 March 2004 (Gaz G11, 17 March 2004, p 8)\nFirst Home Owner Grant Amendment Act 2007 (Act No. 25, 2007)\nAssent date 29 October 2007\nCommenced 1 January 2008 (s 2)\nFirst Home Owner Grant Amendment Regulations 2009 (SL No. 16, 2009)\nNotified 26 June 2009\nCommenced 1 July 2009 (r 2)\n3 GENERAL AMENDMENTS\nGeneral amendments of a formal nature (which are not referred to in the table\nof amendments to this reprint) are made by the Interpretation Legislation\nAmendment Act 2018 (Act No. 22, 2018) to: rr: 1, 3 and 4.\n4 LIST OF AMENDMENTS\nr 3 amd No. 37, 2002; Act No. 1, 2004, s 63; Act No. 25, 2007, s 11\nr 5 rep Act No. 25, 2007, s 11\nins No. 16, 2009, r 4\nr 6 ins No. 16, 2009, r 4","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[],"contradictions":[]},"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"A positive credit balance is required for all requests, including BYOK, so fallback providers remain available. Add credits at https://vercel.com/d?to=%2F%5Bteam%5D%2F%7E%2Fai%3Fmodal%3Dtop-up to continue.","source":"analysis-cron"},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":4,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The regulations appear consistent with their original purpose of operationalising the First Home Owner Grant Act. The 2009 amendments added temporary stimulus measures (boost amounts and extended deadlines) which were time-limited and have since expired, but these were within the original regulatory framework rather than an expansion of scope. The core provisions regarding relevant interests on family and farming land remain targeted at the original policy intent of assisting first home buyers in non-standard ownership arrangements."},"complexity_factors":["Multiple cross-references to the parent Act (First Home Owner Grant Act 2000) requiring readers to flip between instruments","Nested conditional logic in Regulation 3 with multiple sub-paragraphs (i)/(ii) and qualifying clauses (\"other than land used solely or principally for farming purposes\")","Complex defined term \"relative\" with 7 sub-categories including recursive definitions (spouses of siblings, children of children)","Time-limited provisions with multiple date ranges (July–Sept 2009 vs Oct–Dec 2009) creating overlapping but distinct eligibility periods","Interaction between regulations and specific sections of the Act (5(4), 13B, 15, 18A) requiring statutory interpretation knowledge","External reference to Stamp Duty Act 1978 for definition of \"farming purposes\""],"plain_english_summary":"**What this legislation does:**\n\nThese regulations set the rules for who can get the First Home Owner Grant in the Northern Territory and how much they can receive. The grant is a government payment to help people buy or build their first home.\n\n**Key things the regulations cover:**\n\n* **Special cases for \"relevant interest\" (Regulation 3):** Normally, you need to own land to get the grant. But these rules create exceptions where you can qualify even if you don't technically own the land:\n  * **Farming land:** If you're building a home on farming land that you don't own, but the owner has given you permission to live there when it's finished, you can still get the grant.\n  * **Family land:** If you're building on land owned by a close relative (spouse, parents, grandparents, siblings, children, or their partners) — as long as it's not farming land — and they give you permission to live there, you qualify.\n  * **Who counts as family:** The rules specifically define \"relative\" to include spouses, de facto partners, parents, grandparents, siblings, children, grandchildren, and step-children.\n\n* **Who gets excluded from certain rules (Regulation 4):**\n  * The Chief Executive Officer (Housing) — a government housing body — is excluded from rules about \"interested persons\" (people with financial stakes in property deals).\n  * Landowners who let family members or farmers build homes on their land (under Regulation 3) are also excluded from these conflict-of-interest rules.\n\n* **How much money and when (Regulations 5 and 6):** These set specific dollar amounts and deadlines for temporary \"boost\" schemes that increased the grant amount for transactions starting between July and December 2009:\n  * **$14,000** for certain new home contracts (October–December 2009)\n  * **$10,500** for extended grant amounts (October–December 2009)\n  * Extended completion deadlines for \"off-the-plan\" apartments (up to March or June 2011 depending on when the contract started)\n\n**Who it affects:**\nFirst home buyers in the Northern Territory, particularly those building on family land or farming properties, and people buying off-the-plan apartments during the 2009 stimulus period.\n\n**Why it matters:**\nThese rules determine whether you qualify for thousands of dollars in government assistance. The family land provisions are especially important for Indigenous families or rural families who may build on communal or family-owned land rather than purchasing property outright."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":4,"scope_assessment":{"changed":true,"description":"Yes. The Regulations have been amended to introduce time‑limited boost and extended grant amounts and to prescribe precise transaction and off‑the‑plan completion date windows (notably for parts of 2009–2011). They also clarify when builders on farming land or on relatives' land count as having a relevant interest. Those amendments narrow and temporally target eligibility beyond the original general framework and require administrators to apply date‑specific rules."},"complexity_factors":["Cross-references to multiple provisions of the Act (relevant-interest rules, boost scheme and extended amount definitions) require reading regs alongside the Act","Temporal windows and discrete date cut-offs for eligibility and off‑the‑plan completion increase factual complexity","Detailed relationship and land‑use definitions (eg. 'relative', 'farming purposes', adopted/stepchildren) affect edge‑case eligibility","Exclusions (specific public housing CEO and certain landowners) create conditional application of other Act provisions","Several amendments inserted time‑limited measures, so administrators must track historical and expired provisions","Compliance/verification burdens: proof of permission to occupy, family relationships and precise contract commencement/completion dates"],"plain_english_summary":"These Regulations set specific eligibility rules for the Northern Territory First Home Owner Grant. They treat people who build a home on farming land or on a relative’s land (with the landowner’s permission) as having a relevant interest, exclude certain public housing and some landowners from being “interested persons”, and prescribe temporary boost and extended grant amounts with precise transaction and completion date windows in 2009–2011. The government pays the stated grant amounts; eligibility and timing rules determine who can claim and create incentives around when and where to buy or build."},"summary":{"complexity_score":4,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"Based on the available information, the regulations appear to remain consistent with their original intent — providing administrative and procedural support for the First Home Owner Grant scheme introduced in 2000. The 2009 commencement date likely reflects a reprint or amendment rather than a fundamental change in scope."},"complexity_factors":["Operates as subordinate legislation that must be read alongside the parent First Home Owner Grant Act 2000, requiring cross-referencing between documents","Eligibility criteria can involve nuanced definitions (e.g., what counts as a 'first home', what qualifies as an 'owner-occupied' residence)","Procedural requirements for applications, evidence, and compliance may be detailed and technical","Limited metadata provided makes it difficult to assess the full scope and content of the regulations","Interaction with state/territory-specific variations adds complexity for applicants in different jurisdictions"],"plain_english_summary":"The First Home Owner Grant Regulations 2000 set out the technical rules and procedures that implement the First Home Owner Grant—covering how applications are made, what evidence is required, and how payments or recoveries are handled. \n\nThey affect first home buyers, lenders and the Department of Treasury and Finance, have applied since 1 July 2009, and matter because procedural mistakes can cost applicants the grant or trigger repayments."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/nt-first-home-owner-grant-regulations-2000","history":"/api/acts/nt-first-home-owner-grant-regulations-2000/history","analysis":"/api/acts/nt-first-home-owner-grant-regulations-2000/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/nt-first-home-owner-grant-regulations-2000/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/nt-first-home-owner-grant-regulations-2000/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/nt-first-home-owner-grant-regulations-2000/documents"}}