Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A00644:clause:1_29
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A00644
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 29
Character Range: 27977–29959

29  After subsection 140(1)
Insert:

 (1A) However, this Act operates in relation to a housing benefit provided in respect of the employment of an employee of an employer described in subsection (1B) or in respect of the employment of an employee described in subsection (1C) or (1D) as if:
 (a) a reference in this Act (except in paragraph (1)(a), this paragraph and subsection 140(4)) to an eligible urban area were a reference to an eligible urban area that is an urban centre with a census population of not less than 130,000; and
 (b) subparagraph (1)(b)(i) were omitted.

 (1B) Subsection (1A) applies in relation to each of the following employers:
 (a) an employer that is a public hospital that is a public benevolent institution;
 (b) an employer that is a public hospital other than a hospital:
 (i) of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory; and
 (ii) established by a law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory;
 (c) a hospital carried on by:
 (i) a society that is a non‑profit society for the purposes of section 65J; or
 (ii) an association that is a non‑profit association for the purposes of section 65J;
 (d) an employer that is a charitable institution.

 (1C) Subsection (1A) also applies in relation to an employee:
 (a) whose employer is a government body; and
 (b) whose duties of employment are exclusively performed in, or in connection with:
 (i) a public hospital that is a public benevolent institution; or
 (ii) a public hospital that is not a hospital of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory and is not established by a law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory; or
 (iii) a hospital carried on by a society that is a non‑profit society for the purposes of section 65J or by an association that is a non‑profit association for the purposes of section 65J.

 (1D) Subsection (1A) also applies in relation to an employee:
 (a) whose employer is a government body; and
 (b) whose duties of employment are performed in a police service.