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Director-General of Housing and Construction holding                              office under a law of Tasmania;
(viii) the Northern Territory Housing Commission;
      (b) rent payable to the Commonwealth in respect of any accommodation in Glebe in New South Wales; or
      (c) rent payable to the Commonwealth in respect of any accommodation in the Australian Capital Territory or in the Jervis Bay Territory, other than rent of a kind specified by the Minister, by notice in writing published in the Gazette, for the purposes of this paragraph;";
   (e) by omitting from sub-section (1) the definitions of "mental hospital" and "mental hospital patient" and substituting the following definitions:
         "'mental hospital' means premises that the Director-General is satisfied are premises at which accommodation for mentally ill persons is provided and are declared by the Director-General, in writing, to be a mental hospital for the purposes of this definition;

'mental hospital patient' means—
      (a) a person who has been admitted to a mental hospital as a patient of the hospital and is shown on the records of the hospital as a patient (other than an out-patient) of the hospital; or
      (b) a person who is being transferred from one mental hospital to another mental hospital, being a person who, immediately before the transfer began, was a mental hospital patient within the meaning of paragraph (a) at the first-mentioned hospital and who is being so transferred in order to become a mental hospital patient, within the meaning of that paragraph, at that other hospital;";
   (f) by inserting after the definition of "officer" in sub-section (1) the following definition:
        "'rent', in relation to a person, means rent, not being Government rent, in respect of premises, or a part of premises, occupied by the person as the home of the person and includes amounts payable by the person for—
    (a) lodging or for board and lodging;
    (b) the use of the site for—
    (i) a caravan or other vehicle; or
    (ii) a structure,
           occupied by the person as the home of the person; or
          (c) the right to moor a vessel that is occupied by the person as the home of the person;"; and
(g) by omitting sub-section (2) and substituting the following sub-section:
    "(2) If a law of a State or of the Northern Territory alters the name of an authority referred to in the definition of 'Government rent' in sub-section (1), a reference to that authority in that definition shall be construed as a reference to the authority under the new name.".

Extension of Act to Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands and application of Act in relation to external Territories
6. Section 6c of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-sections:
"(2)