Australian Capital Territory
Housing Assistance Public rental Housing Assistance Program 2005 (No 1)
Disallowable instrument DI2005–164
made under the  
Housing Assistance Act, 1987, s 12 (1) (Housing Assistance Programs)

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

Housing Assistance Programs are the policy framework for the provision of public housing. 

In 1989 the Commissioner for Housing made a program called the Public Rental Housing Assistance Program (PRHAP). 

PRHAP has been amended from time to time. Each amendment was made by notifying an amending program, without preparing a consolidated program. This has meant there has been no official consolidated version of PRHAP, and is inconvenient.

The Parliamentary Counsel’s Office (PCO), which maintains the Legislation Register, does not permit unofficial consolidations of instruments to be placed on it, and requires instruments on the register to be drafted in accordance with modern drafting practice.

Placing PRHAP as a single instrument on the Register will make it more available to the general public. 

This program has been prepared in consultation with PCO, and has been redrafted using modern drafting practice, which has necessitated some rearrangement of clause numbers. However, the substantive effect of the previous PRHAP has not been altered.