Housing Restructuring and Tenancy Matters (Community Housing Provider) Amendment Regulations 2015

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Coat of Arms of New Zealand

Housing Restructuring and Tenancy Matters (Community Housing Provider) Amendment Regulations 2015

Jerry Mateparae, Governor-General

Order in Council

At Wellington this 2nd day of March 2015

Present:
His Excellency the Governor-General in Council

Pursuant to section 190 of the Housing Restructuring and Tenancy Matters Act 1992, His Excellency the Governor-General makes the following regulations,—

  • (a) acting on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council; and

  • (b) acting on the recommendation of the Minister of Finance, the Minister of Housing, and the Minister for Social Development given in accordance with section 191(1) of that Act.

Regulations

1 Title

  • These regulations are the Housing Restructuring and Tenancy Matters (Community Housing Provider) Amendment Regulations 2015.

2 Commencement

  • These regulations come into force on 14 April 2015.

3 Principal regulations
4 Regulation 6 amended (Information required in application)

  • Replace regulation 6(1)(d) with:

    • “(d) evidence that the organisation’s objects include social rental housing or affordable rental housing; and”.

Michael Webster,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Explanatory note

This note is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general effect.

These regulations, which come into force on 14 April 2015, amend the Housing Restructuring and Tenancy Matters (Community Housing Provider) Regulations 2014 (the principal regulations).

Regulation 6(1)(d) of the principal regulations requires an application for registration of a community housing provider to include evidence from the organisation’s empowering document that the organisation’s objects include social rental housing or affordable rental housing. The effect of the amendment is to remove the requirement that such evidence come from the organisation’s empowering document.

Issued under the authority of the Legislation Act 2012.

Date of notification in Gazette: 5 March 2015.

These regulations are administered by the Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment.