(1)  In these regulations, unless the contrary intention appears –

the Act means the State Service Act 2000 ;

dependant , in relation to an employee, means –

(a) in the case of a relative of the employee, a person who normally resides with the employee; and

(b) in any other case, a person who has resided with the employee for a period of at least 12 months –

and who is wholly or substantially dependent on the employee for financial support;

dwelling-house includes any residential accommodation of a kind commonly known as a flat or home unit that is, or is intended to be, a separate tenement;

new locality , in relation to an employee, means the locality to which the employee relocates as a result of an assignment of duties to the employee;

old locality , in relation to an employee, means the locality from which the employee relocates as a result of an assignment of duties to the employee;

prescribed expenses means –

(a) legal fees; and

(b) agent's commission; and

(c) stamp duty; and

(d) fees payable to the Recorder of Titles or to a person in another State or a Territory of the Commonwealth performing duties of a similar nature to, and for the same purposes as, the Recorder of Titles; and

(e) expenses relating to the execution or discharge of a first mortgage; and

(f) in the case of a sale of a kind referred to in regulation 19(1)(a) , the reasonable costs of advertising in a newspaper;

relative , in relation to an employee, means –

(a) the husband or wife of the employee; and

(b) a person with whom the employee has cohabited for substantially the whole of the period of 12 months immediately preceding that person's illness or death; and

(c) the parent or step-parent of the employee; and

(d) the father-in-law or mother-in-law of the employee; and

(e) a child or stepchild of the employee; and

(f) a brother or sister, or stepbrother or stepsister, of the employee; and

(g) a grandparent of the employee;

standing orders means standing orders made by a Head of Agency under section 34(2) of the Act.

(2)  For the purposes of the definition of "dependant" , a person is taken to be wholly or substantially dependent on an employee if that person receives or is entitled to receive an annual income that is less than the adult minimum wage as determined from time to time by the Tasmanian Industrial Commission.

(3)  An employee with dependants is taken to be an employee without dependants where any dependant of the employee receives or is entitled to receive allowances of a similar nature to the payments and allowances specified in regulation 18 by reason of any entitlement arising from any employment, other than as an employee, engaged in by the dependant.

(4)  An employee is to notify the relevant Head of Agency as soon as possible of any change in the dependency status of any of the employee's dependants and the date of that change.