South Australian Numbered Acts South Australian Numbered Acts(1) If a person has, before the date of the enactment of this Act, received a first home owner grant in respect of an application on which a first home owner grant is not payable under subsection (1a) of section 7 of the principal Act (as inserted by section 12 of this Act), the Commissioner may recover the amount of the grant as a debt due to the Crown.
(2) If a person has, before the date of the enactment of this Act, received a payment under section 18B of the principal Act in respect of an eligible transaction with a commencement date that is on or after 17 September 2010, the Commissioner may recover the amount of the payment from the person as a debt due to the Crown.
(3) If—
(a) a person is entitled to a first home bonus grant under section 18BA of the principal Act, as enacted by this Act (the "relevant entitlement ); and
(b) the person has received a benefit constituted by an ex gratia payment by the State in order to provide for the first home bonus grant under section 18BA envisaged by this Act for the period between 17 September 2010 and the date of the enactment of this Act,
the amount of the relevant entitlement will be reduced by the amount of the ex gratia payment (including so as to fully set off the amount of the relevant entitlement).
(4) To avoid doubt, any set off or right of recovery under this section extends to a benefit obtained before the commencement of this section.
(5) Terms used in this section that are defined in the principal Act have the same respective meanings as in that Act.
(6) In this section—
"principal Act" means the First Home Owner Grant Act 2000 .