47Homes Tasmania to provide residential premises to certain persons other than eligible persons

47 Homes Tasmania to provide residential premises to certain persons other than eligible persons

(1)  In this section –

public authority means –

(a) a person or body of persons, whether incorporated or unincorporated, that is –

(i) appointed or constituted by or under any Act or Commonwealth Act; or

(ii) appointed in the exercise of the prerogative rights of the Crown –

to administer or control any department, business, or undertaking, on behalf of the State or of the Commonwealth; and

(b) a statutory authority appointed or constituted under any Act or Commonwealth Act to carry on any public industrial undertaking; and

(c) a council.

(2)  If Homes Tasmania is satisfied that –

(a) a public authority; or

(b) a person who is carrying on, or about to carry on, an industrial undertaking –

permanently requires residential premises for its or the person’s employees, Homes Tasmania may, with the consent of the Minister –

(c) erect residential premises; and

(d) despite Part 8 , sell or lease them to that public authority or person upon the terms and conditions, if any, that the Minister approves.

(3)  For the purposes of this section –

(a) the provisions of this Part have effect as if, for any reference in the provisions to an eligible person, there were substituted a reference to a public authority or person carrying on or about to carry on an industrial undertaking; and

(b) the powers conferred on Homes Tasmania by those provisions may be exercised accordingly.