4AEligible person and spouse or de facto partner may be treated together as eligible person

#### 4A Eligible person and spouse or de facto partner may be treated together as eligible person (1) The Secretary may, in his or her discretion, treat an eligible person and the spouse or de facto partner of that eligible person together as an eligible person for the purposes of this Act, and any reference in this Act to an eligible person shall be read as including a reference to a spouse or de facto partner of that eligible person who is so treated. (3) The Secretary shall not apply this section in relation to any land, or land and dwelling‑house, if the land, or land and dwelling‑house, is or are owned or proposed to be owned by the eligible person and his or her spouse or de facto partner otherwise than as joint tenants. (6) The application of this section in relation to land or land and a dwelling‑house does not, except as provided by this section, affect the application of the other provisions of this Act in relation to the land or land and dwelling‑house.