First Home Owner Grant and Shared Equity Act 2000
21Imposition of conditions by Chief Commissioner
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21 Imposition of conditions by Chief Commissioner
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.
s 21: Am 2008 No 122, Sch 2 [3].