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This is a Bill, not an Act. For current law, see the Acts databases.
South Australia
COVID-19 Emergency Response (Expiry and Rent) Amendment
Bill 2020
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the
COVID-19
Emergency Response Act 2020
.
Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1Short title
2Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of COVID-19 Emergency
Response Act 2020
3Amendment of section
3—Interpretation
4Amendment of section 6—Expiry of
Act
5Amendment of section 8—Provisions applying
to residential tenancies
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the COVID-19 Emergency Response (Expiry and
Rent) Amendment Act 2020.
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a
specified Act amends the Act so specified.
Part 2—Amendment
of COVID-19 Emergency Response
Act 2020
3—Amendment
of section 3—Interpretation
Section 3, definition of relevant declaration—after "
Emergency
Management Act 2004
" insert:
or a declaration under section 87 of the
South
Australian Public Health Act 2011
4—Amendment
of section 6—Expiry of Act
(1) Section 6(1)(b)—delete "paragraph (a)" and substitute:
this section
(2) Section 6(2)—delete paragraphs (a) and (b) and
substitute:
(a) 28 days after the day on which all relevant declarations relating
to the outbreak of the human disease named COVID-19 within South Australia have
ceased; or
(b) 28 March 2021,
(3) Section 6(2a)—delete "and the regulations made under that
section will expire on 30 September 2020" and substitute:
will expire on 28 March 2021
5—Amendment
of section 8—Provisions applying to residential
tenancies
Section 8(1)(b)—after "otherwise)" insert:
if the tenant is suffering financial hardship as a result of the COVID-19
pandemic