Australian Capital Territory

Housing Assistance (Public Rental Housing Assistance Program) Review Committee Appointment 2007 (No 1)
Disallowable Instrument DI2007—83
made under the
Housing Assistance Public Rental Housing Assistance Program 2006 (No 2) – clause 26
and the Housing Assistance Act 1987 - section 12
EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

Clause 26 of the Housing Assistance Public Rental Housing Assistance Program 2006 
(No 2) allows the Minister to establish the Housing Review Committee to consider decisions under the said program to be reviewed by the Commissioner for Housing and to make recommendations to the Commissioner about these decisions. The Committee consists of a Chairperson plus 5 members.

This Disallowable Instrument appoints Ms Patricia Ruth McDonald as Chair and 
Dr Shae McCrystal, Mr Michael Eng-Kim Teh, Ms Toni McInnes, 
Ms Catherine Hays and Ms Bronwyn Parsons as members under section 12 of the Housing Assistance Public Rental Housing Assistance Program 2006 (No 2). The members of the Housing Review Committee are appointed for the period ending 
30 June 2007. 

The appointees are not Public Servants and this instrument makes an appointment to which the Legislation Act 2001, Division 19.3.3 applies. Accordingly, under the Legislation Act 2001, s.229 the instrument is a Disallowable Instrument.

Part 19.3 of the Legislation Act 2001 provides that certain statutory positions require consultation with a Legislative Assembly committee and are disallowable.  A letter dated 12 March 2007, received from Ms Karin MacDonald MLA, in her capacity as Chair of the Standing Committee on Health and Disability, advises that on 
9 March 2007, the committee considered the appointments to the Housing Review Committee in accordance with the Legislation Act 2001 and had no objections to the appointments and therefore made no recommendations.

Section 64 (Presentation of subordinate laws and disallowable instruments) of the Legislation Act 2001 provides that if a subordinate law or Disallowable Instrument is not presented to the Legislative Assembly within 6 sitting days after its notification day, it is taken to be repealed.

This Instrument is necessary to provide the appointees with statutory authority to perform the duties of the Housing Review Committee under the Housing Assistance Public Rental Housing Assistance Program 2006 (No 2) and has been prepared in accordance with clause 26 of the Program.