14CEligible divorced persons

14C Eligible divorced persons

Subject to section 14E, a person is an eligible person for the purposes of this Act if: (a) the person is a divorced person who has a dependent child or dependent children or had such a child or children at the prescribed date; (b) the person had not, before the prescribed date, attained the age of thirty‑six years; (c) the person: (i) was an Australian citizen throughout the period of three years immediately preceding the prescribed date; or (ii) resided in Australia throughout that period; (d) the Secretary is satisfied that, throughout the period of three years immediately preceding the prescribed date, acceptable savings were held by the person or by the person jointly with his or her former spouse; (e) a grant under this Act has not been made to the person or to a former spouse of the person during his or her marriage to the person; (f) the person has, or the person and a child or children of the person or of a former spouse of the person have, on or after 27 October 1969, and while the person was a divorced person: (i) entered into a contract for the purchase of a dwelling‑house situated in Australia, or for the construction by a building‑contractor, on land situated in Australia that is, or that the Secretary is satisfied will be, owned by the person or by the person and the child or children, of a dwelling‑house the construction of which commenced on or after that date; or (ii) commenced to construct, otherwise than through a building‑contractor, on land situated in Australia that is, or that the Secretary is satisfied will be, owned by the person or by the person and the child or children, a dwelling‑house that has since that date been completed or on which substantial building progress has been made; (g) the person is not an undischarged bankrupt; and (h) the person is not serving a term of imprisonment for an offence against a law of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory.