4Finance Minister may guarantee loans

4 Finance Minister may guarantee loans

(1) Where the Finance Minister is satisfied that a loan of an amount not exceeding Sixty thousand dollars is proposed to be made by an ADI to an eligible person, and that the loan is required, and is intended to be used, by the eligible person: (a) for the purpose of making or erecting permanent improvements to or on the land comprised in his or her lease; or (b) partly for a purpose specified in the last preceding paragraph and partly for the purpose of discharging a mortgage or charge over his or her interest in the land comprised in his or her lease so as to enable him or her to give a first mortgage over that interest as security for the moneys to be borrowed for the first‑mentioned purpose; the Finance Minister may, on behalf of the Commonwealth, guarantee the repayment to the ADI of a portion of the loan and of interest on that portion. (2) The portion of the loan to be guaranteed shall be determined by the Finance Minister having regard to the extent to which the amount of the loan exceeds the amount that the ADI might have been expected to advance in the ordinary course of business without the guarantee. (3) The terms and conditions of the guarantee shall be as agreed between the Finance Minister and the ADI. (4) The Finance Minister may, by written instrument, delegate any of the Finance Minister’s powers or functions under this section to an official (within the meaning of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013) of a non‑corporate Commonwealth entity (within the meaning of that Act). In exercising powers or functions under a delegation, the official must comply with any directions of the Finance Minister. (5) In this section:

Finance Minister means the Minister who administers the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013.