34Requests to change rental availability date not decided before commencement

34 Requests to change rental availability date not decided before commencement

(1) This regulation applies if: (a) before the commencement of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the National Rental Affordability Scheme Amendment (Provisional Allocations and Other Measures) Regulation 2014 (the amendment regulation), the Secretary had received a request to agree to change the rental availability date for a rental dwelling to which a reservation of an allocation relates; and (b) the Secretary had not made a decision on the request before that commencement.

Note: See paragraphs 14(2)(a) and (b) of these Regulations, as in force immediately before the commencement of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the amendment regulation.

(2) Subject to subregulation (3), the Secretary must deal with the request as if the amendments made by Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the amendment regulation had not happened. (3) If the request relates to the rental availability date for a rental dwelling in relation to which the application for an allocation was made in response to the call for applications made on 18 April 2013, the Secretary must not agree to change the rental availability date for the dwelling to a date later than 31 July 2015.