The Crown may, from time to time, require the company to enter into agreements for the provision by the company of housing and related services to any persons in return for the payment by the Crown of the whole or part of the price thereof and, in any such case, the company shall enter into such agreements with the Crown.

(1) Notwithstanding any Act, rule of law, or agreement, the shareholding Ministers may, from time to time, do any 1 or more of the following:

• (a) enter into an agreement with the company on such terms and conditions as the shareholding Ministers and the company think fit that identifies the State housing assets or liabilities or Corporation assets or liabilities that the shareholding Ministers and the company agree should be vested in the company and that states the consideration for such vesting:

• (b) authorise the company to act on behalf of the Crown or the Corporation in providing housing services or in managing State housing assets or liabilities or Corporation assets or liabilities:

• (c) grant to the company leases, licences, easements, permits, or rights of any kind in respect of State housing assets or liabilities or Corporation assets or liabilities.

(2) Any agreement entered into under subsection (1) may apply to State housing assets or liabilities or Corporation assets or liabilities separately or as a group or class and, for the purposes of this subsection, a class of State housing assets or liabilities or Corporation assets or liabilities may comprise—

• (a) all or any State housing assets or liabilities or Corporation assets or liabilities:

• (b) all or any State housing assets or liabilities or Corporation assets or liabilities other than State housing assets or liabilities or Corporation assets or liabilities identified separately or as a group or class.

(3) The responsible Minister shall lay before the House of Representatives any contract or other document entered into pursuant to subsection (1) within 12 sitting days after the date of that contract or document.

The shareholding Ministers and the company may agree pursuant to section 22 that any State housing assets or Corporation assets that are fixed to, or are under or over, any land may be vested in the company whether or not the land is also vested in the company and, in any such case, for the purposes of this Part, the assets and the land shall be regarded as separate assets each capable of separate ownership.

(1) The Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council, appoint a date on which, by virtue of this Act, State housing assets or liabilities and Corporation assets or liabilities referred to in any agreement entered into between the shareholding Ministers and the company, being an agreement specified in the order, shall vest in the company.

(2) The vesting of State housing assets and liabilities and Corporation assets and liabilities pursuant to this Part shall take effect notwithstanding any enactment or rule of law or agreement and, in particular, but without limitation, the vesting shall take effect notwithstanding any provision contained in the Land Act 1948, the Reserves Act 1977, the Public Works Act 1981, the Resource Management Act 1991, or any other enactment relating to land.

(3) Every Order in Council under this section shall be deemed to be a regulation for the purposes of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989.

(1) Nothing in this Part—

• (a) shall be regarded as placing the Crown, the company, the Corporation, or any other person in breach of contract or confidence or as otherwise making any of them guilty of a civil wrong; or

• (b) shall be regarded as giving rise to a right for any person to terminate or cancel any contract or arrangement or to accelerate the performance of any obligation; or

• (c) shall be regarded as placing the Crown, the company, the Corporation, or any other person in breach of any enactment or rule of law or contractual provision prohibiting, restricting, or regulating the assignment or transfer of any property or the disclosure of any information; or

• (d) shall release any surety from any obligation; or

• (e) shall invalidate or discharge any contract or security.

(2) District Land Registrars and other persons charged with the keeping of books or registers are hereby authorised to make such entries in their respective books or registers and do everything necessary to give effect to the vesting of any State housing assets or liabilities and Corporation assets or liabilities in the company under this Part.

(3) A certificate, signed by the Chief Surveyor for the land district in which the land is situated, that land described in the certificate, or described in any document on which the certificate appears, is land vested in the company pursuant to this Part shall be sufficient evidence, in the absence of proof to the contrary, that the land was so vested.

(4) Where State housing assets or liabilities or Corporation assets or liabilities vest in the company pursuant to this Part,—

• (a) the publication under the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 of any Order in Council made under section 24 of this Act relating to those State housing assets or liabilities or Corporation assets or liabilities shall be deemed to be notice of the vesting and any third party shall, after the date of such publication, deal with the company in place of the Crown or the Corporation, as the case may be:

• (b) the Crown or the Corporation, as the case may be, shall remain liable to any third party as if the asset or liability had not been vested but shall be indemnified by the company in respect of any liability to any third party:

• (c) any satisfaction or performance by the company in respect of the asset or liability shall be deemed to be also satisfaction or performance by the Crown or the Corporation, as the case may be:

• (d) any satisfaction or performance in respect of the asset or liability by any third party to the benefit of the company shall be deemed to be also to the benefit of the Crown or the Corporation, as the case may be.

(1) Where—

• (a) rights or obligations to provide goods or services to third parties are vested in the company pursuant to this Part; and

• (b) those goods or services have previously been provided by the Crown or the Corporation, as the case may be, on terms and conditions wholly or partly prescribed by any Act; and

• (c) the Governor-General has, by Order in Council, declared that this subsection shall apply in respect of those goods or services,—

the goods or services shall, to the extent that those terms and conditions are not already contained in contracts between the Crown or the Corporation, as the case may be, and third parties, from the date of vesting be deemed to be provided pursuant to contracts between the company and the third parties (whether or not the Act is repealed).

(2) Each such contract shall be deemed to include such of the terms and conditions contained in that Act (with all necessary modifications) as are specified in the Order in Council.

(3) Where any land that is subject to any lease, licence, permit, or right, created on terms and conditions wholly or partly set out in any Act has been vested in the company pursuant to this Part, the Governor-General may, by Order in Council, declare that such of the provisions of that Act as are specified in the order shall continue to apply in relation to the land and such lease, licence, permit, or right.

(4) Where an Order in Council is made under subsection (3), the provisions of the Act referred to in the order shall, with all necessary modifications, continue to apply in relation to the land and the terms or conditions of the lease, licence, permit, or right subject to any agreement to—

• (a) amend or revoke any such term or condition; or

• (b) revoke any such term or condition and substitute another term or condition for it—

made between the owner for the time being of the land and the holder for the time being of the lease, licence, permit, or right.

(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, no land that is subject to a lease or licence pursuant to section 66 or section 66AA of the Land Act 1948 shall be vested in the company pursuant to this Part.

(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, no land for the time being administered by the Department of Conservation under the Conservation Act 1987 or under any enactment specified in Schedule 1 to that Act shall be vested in the company pursuant to this Part.

(3) All land that is subject to the Housing Act 1955 and that is vested in the company pursuant to this Part shall cease to be subject to that Act from the date of that vesting unless otherwise expressly provided by this Act or any other Act.

(4) Nothing in sections 40 to 42 of the Public Works Act 1981 shall apply to the vesting of land in the company pursuant to this Part.

(5) Nothing in this Part or in any vesting of land in the company pursuant to this Part shall derogate from the provisions of section 10 or section 11 of the Crown Minerals Act 1991.

(1) A District Land Registrar shall, on written application by any person authorised by either of the shareholding Ministers and on payment of the prescribed fee,—

• (a) register the company as the proprietor, in substitution for the Crown, of the estate or the interest of the Crown in land that is incorporated in the register or otherwise registered in the land registry office of the land registration district concerned and that is vested in the company pursuant to this Part; and

• (b) register the company as the proprietor, in substitution for the Corporation, of the estate or the interest of the Corporation in land that is incorporated in the register or otherwise registered in the land registry office of the land registration district concerned and that is vested in the company pursuant to this Part; and

• (c) make such entries in the register and on any outstanding documents of title and generally do all such things as may be necessary to give effect to this section.

(2) The powers conferred by subsection (1) may be exercised in respect of any estate or interest that is incorporated in the register by virtue of a lease or licence that has expired or been determined.

(3) A District Land Registrar shall, on written application by any person authorised by either of the shareholding Ministers, and on payment of the prescribed fee, issue a certificate of title for land, other than land that is registered under the Land Transfer Act 1952, that is vested in the company pursuant to this Part in form 1 of Schedule 1 of the Land Transfer Act 1952, amended as appropriate.

(4) A District Land Registrar shall, on written application by a person authorised by either of the shareholding Ministers and on payment of the prescribed fee, issue a certificate of title for land that is subject to the Land Transfer Act 1952 but for which no certificate of title has been issued and that is vested in the company pursuant to this Part in form 2 of Schedule 1 of the Land Transfer Act 1952, amended as appropriate.

(5) Every application under subsection (1) or subsection (3) or subsection (4) shall—

• (a) state that the land has been vested in the company under this Part; and

• (b) contain a description of the land that is sufficient to identify it; and

• (c) in the case of an application under subsection (3), be accompanied by a certificate by the Chief Surveyor for the district concerned as to the correctness of the description.

(6) Where land is vested in the company pursuant to this Part and at any time before 1 October 1991 (being the date of the coming into force of Part 10 of the Resource Management Act 1991), in relation to a proposed subdivision of the land, either the Crown or the Corporation held an approval under the Local Government Act 1974 (being an approval that expired before that date) or no approval under that Act or any other Act was required, as the case may be,—

• (a) any person authorised by either of the shareholding Ministers may, notwithstanding the Resource Management Act 1991, lodge for deposit by a District Land Registrar a survey plan in respect of the land and, in any such case, the District Land Registrar shall, notwithstanding that Act but subject to the provisions of any other applicable enactment,—

  • (i) deposit any such plan; and

  • (ii) on written application by any such person, issue a certificate of title for any land that is shown as a separate allotment on the plan as so deposited:

• (b) a District Land Registrar shall, notwithstanding the Resource Management Act 1991, on written application by a person authorised by either of the shareholding Ministers, issue a certificate of title for any land that is shown as a separate allotment on any survey plan in respect of the land that was deposited before 1 October 1991.

(7) For the purposes of subsection (6), the expressions allotment, subdivision, and survey plan shall have the same meanings as in the Resource Management Act 1991.

(1) Before a District Land Registrar issues a certificate of title in respect of any land, other than land that is registered under the Land Transfer Act 1952, that is vested in the company pursuant to this Part, the District Land Registrar shall either receive under the hand of, or request from, the Director-General within the meaning of section 2 of the Survey Act 1986 or any Chief Surveyor a certificate in a form substantially similar to the form set out in Schedule 2 of the Land Act 1948 as to the legal description of the land, any trusts, reservations, or restrictions affecting the land, and any other matters that the District Land Registrar considers appropriate.

(2) A certificate in accordance with subsection (1) shall be filed by the District Land Registrar in the land registry office and shall be conclusive evidence to the District Land Registrar of the matters required to be stated in it.

(1) Where land is vested in the company pursuant to this Part subject to the reservation of or together with any easement, not being an easement previously registered under the Land Transfer Act 1952, the Director-General within the meaning of section 2 of the Survey Act 1986 or any Chief Surveyor shall include in the certificate given under section 29(1) of this Act a sufficient description of the easement and particulars as to the rights and powers, terms, covenants, conditions, or restrictions attaching thereto.

(2) The District Land Registrar shall enter a memorial of the easement upon the relevant certificate of title by reference to the certificate in which it is described as if that certificate were the instrument creating the easement.

(3) Where a memorial of an easement is entered upon the relevant certificate of title under subsection (2), the easement shall be treated for all purposes including all subsequent dealings as if it had been created under the Land Transfer Act 1952.

For the purpose of facilitating the vesting of State housing assets or liabilities and Corporation assets or liabilities in the company pursuant to this Part, the Governor-General may, from time to time, by Order in Council, do any one or more of the following:

• (a) declare that a reference to the Crown or a Minister, officer, employee, department, or instrument of the Crown or to the Corporation or an officer or employee of the Corporation, as the case may be, in any or all regulations, orders, notices, or documents shall be deemed to be or to include a reference to the company:

• (b) declare that the company shall assume or continue to have the rights and obligations of the Crown or a Minister, officer, employee, department, or instrument of the Crown or of the Corporation or an officer or employee of the Corporation, as the case may be, in respect of applications for rights, objections, or proceedings before any court, authority, or other person, being rights and obligations that have been vested in the company pursuant to this Part:

• (c) declare, in respect of any State housing assets or liabilities or Corporation assets or liabilities vested in the company pursuant to this Part, that the company shall be deemed to have specified rights or obligations in respect of those assets or liabilities, being rights or obligations that are required in respect of those assets or liabilities as a result of the change of ownership or responsibility from the Crown or the Corporation, as the case may be, to the company:

• (d) declare that any Order in Council made under this section shall be deemed to be notice to all persons, and that specific notice need not be given to any authority or other person:

• (e) direct any authority or other person to register or record any such vesting or declaration.

(1) Any document, matter, or thing, which if this Act had not been passed would have been admissible in evidence in respect of any matter relating to State housing assets or liabilities or Corporation assets or liabilities vested in the company pursuant to this Part for or against the Crown or the Corporation, as the case may be, shall, on and after the date on which those assets or liabilities vest in the company, be admissible in evidence in respect of the same matter for or against the company.

(2) In this section document has the same meaning as in section 2(1) of the Evidence Amendment Act (No 2) 1980.

(1) The Housing Act 1955 shall have effect in respect of State housing land within the meaning of section 2(1) of the Housing Act 1955 vested in the company pursuant to this Part where at the date of vesting there is a lease, licence, permit, agreement, or tenancy in respect of that land to which all or any of the following provisions of the Housing Act 1955 (or any corresponding provisions of any former Housing Act, as the case may be) apply, and those provisions shall continue to apply to that lease, licence, permit, agreement, or tenancy (and any renewal thereof pursuant to a right expressly conferred thereby or by any Act) as if the land were still State housing land subject to the Housing Act 1955 and every reference in those provisions to the Minister of Housing or the Corporation included a reference to the company:

• (a) section 17 (which relates to the issue of licences to occupy):

• (b) section 18 (which relates to the registration of agreements for sale and licences to occupy):

• (c) section 22 (which relates to the acceptance of money after the rescission of an agreement for sale):

• (d) section 23 (which relates to the recovery of possession of land):

• (e) section 37 (which relates to the registration of dealings with agreements registered under section 18 of the Housing Act 1955).

(2) Without limiting subsection (1), section 18 of the Housing Act 1955 shall apply in relation to every licence to occupy land that is issued by the company under section 17 of that Act as applied by subsection (1) of this section.

(3) Without limiting the powers of the company, the provisions of sections 25 to 30 of the Housing Act 1955 shall continue to apply in relation to State housing land within the meaning of section 2(1) of the Housing Act 1955 that has been vested in the company pursuant to this Part, whether or not the land remains vested in the company, as if the land continued to be State housing land subject to that Act and as if the references to the Crown and to the Corporation included a reference to the company.

(4) Section 36(5) of the Housing Act 1955 shall continue to apply in relation to State housing land within the meaning of section 2(1) of the Housing Act 1955 vested in the company pursuant to this Part as if the land continued to be State housing land and as if the references to the Minister of Housing and the Corporation included a reference to the company.

(5) Section 3 of the Housing Amendment Act 1956 shall have effect as if—

• (a) the references to the Corporation and the Minister of Housing included references to the company; and

• (b) the reference in subsection (2) to State housing land included a reference to land vested in the company pursuant to this Part.

Where, before the vesting of any land in the company pursuant to this Part, any negotiations or action had been commenced by the Crown or the Corporation in respect of the taking or acquisition or setting apart of the land under the Public Works Act 1981, the taking or acquisition or setting apart may be continued and concluded as if the land were required for a public work.

(1) The Governor-General may, from time to time, by Order in Council, vest in the Crown, on a date specified in the order, any assets or liabilities specified in the order, being assets or liabilities that were State housing assets or liabilities vested in the company pursuant to this Part and that the shareholding Ministers and the company agree should be vested in the Crown.

(2) Where, pursuant to an Order in Council under subsection (1), assets or liabilities vest in the Crown,—

• (a) the provisions of sections 24(2) and 25 shall apply, with such modifications as may be necessary:

• (b) the company shall remain liable to any third party in respect of any liability in relation to the assets or liabilities incurred on or after the vesting of the assets or liabilities in the company under this Part but shall be indemnified by the Crown in respect of that liability to that third party:

• (c) any satisfaction or performance by the Crown in relation to the assets or liabilities shall be deemed to be also satisfaction or performance by the company:

• (d) any satisfaction or performance in respect of the assets or liabilities by any third party to the benefit of the Crown shall be deemed to be also to the benefit of the company.

(3) Where land taken or acquired by the Crown under the Public Works Act 1981 before it was vested in the company pursuant to this Part is vested in the Crown pursuant to an Order in Council under this section, the provisions of that Act shall apply to the land as if the land continued to be land taken or acquired under that Act.

(1) A District Land Registrar shall, on written application by any person authorised by either of the shareholding Ministers and on payment of the prescribed fee,—

• (a) register the Crown as the proprietor, in substitution for the company, of the estate or interest of the company in any land that is incorporated in the register or otherwise registered in the land registry office of the land registration district concerned and that is vested in the Crown pursuant to an Order in Council made under section 35; and

• (b) make such entries in the register and on any outstanding documents of title and generally do all such things as may be necessary to give effect to this section.

(2) Every application under this section shall—

• (a) state that the land has been vested in the Crown under section 35; and

• (b) contain a description of the land that is sufficient to identify it.

Where land is vested in the Crown pursuant to an Order in Council made under section 35, the Housing Act 1955 shall apply in relation to the land in the same way as it applied before it was vested in the company.

Amendment(s) incorporated in the Act(s).

Amendment(s) incorporated in the Act(s).

(1) For the purposes of the Government Superannuation Fund Act 1956, a person who, at any time within 9 months after the prescribed date, became or becomes an employee of a specified company and who, immediately before becoming such an employee, was an officer or employee of the Corporation and was a contributor to the Government Superannuation Fund under that Act shall, so long as that person was or continues to be employed by that company, be deemed to have been or to be employed in the government service and that Act shall be deemed to have applied or to apply, as the case may be, to that person as if service with the company were government service.

(2) Subject to the Government Superannuation Fund Act 1956, nothing in subsection (1) shall entitle any such person to become a contributor to the Government Superannuation Fund after that person has once ceased to be a contributor.

(3) For the purposes of applying the Government Superannuation Fund Act 1956, in accordance with subsection (1), to a person who is in the service of the company and is a contributor to the Government Superannuation Fund the term controlling authority, in relation to that person, means the chief executive of the company.

(4) In this section—

• (a) prescribed date means a date (whether or not it is a date that is earlier than the date on which this Act comes into force) declared by the responsible Minister by notice in the Gazette to be the prescribed date for the purposes of this section:

• (b) specified company means a company declared by the responsible Minister by notice in the Gazette to be a specified company for the purposes of this section.

The enactments specified in the Schedule are hereby amended in the manner indicated in that schedule.

(1) In this Part and Schedules 2 and 3, unless the context otherwise requires,—

(2) Schedule 2 expires on the commencement of the regulations first made under section 53.

(1) This subsection applies to HNZ housing and a tenant if—

• (a) the tenant has applied to the company for it to calculate an income-related rent for the housing; and

• (b) the company is satisfied that—

  • (i) it has had all information reasonably needed to calculate such a rent for the housing for long enough to be able to do so; and

  • (ii) the information is accurate.

(2) If subsection (1) applies to any HNZ housing and a tenant, the rent for the housing on or after the appointed day must be the income-related rent for the time being calculated for the tenant.

(3) If subsection (1) does not apply to any HNZ housing and a tenant, the rent for the housing on or after the appointed day must be its market rent for the time being.

(4) If satisfied that special circumstances justify its doing so, the company may, in its absolute discretion, set for and accept from a tenant of any HNZ housing a rent lower than the rent otherwise required by subsection (2) or subsection (3) to be paid for the housing by the tenant.

(5) Subsections (2) and (4) are subject to sections 57(2) and 58(4).

(6) Subsections (2) to (4) are subject to section 45.

(1) The company may treat an application made at any time to it for it to calculate an income-related rent for any HNZ housing as having been made at any earlier time it determines, if satisfied that—

• (a) it has all information reasonably needed to calculate an income-related rent for the housing as at the time determined; and

• (b) the information is accurate; and

• (c) it was unreasonable in all the circumstances to expect the application to have been made earlier.

(2) This subsection applies to an application made to the company for it to calculate an income-related rent for any HNZ housing if,—

• (a) at the time it was made, the company—

  • (i) did not have all information reasonably needed to calculate an income-related rent for the housing; or

  • (ii) had all information reasonably needed to calculate an income-related rent for the housing, but was not satisfied that it was accurate; and

• (b) at some later time the company is satisfied that—

  • (i) it has all that information; and

  • (ii) the information is accurate.

(3) The company may treat an application to which subsection (2) applies as if the company had had all information reasonably needed to calculate an income-related rent for the housing concerned at any time it determines between the time the application was made and the later time concerned.

(1) This subsection applies to an existing tenant of HNZ housing if the company—

• (a) is required by section 43 to reduce the rent for the housing; or

• (b) is empowered by section 43 or section 57(2) or section 58(4) to increase the rent for the housing, and decides to do so.

(2) The company must, in accordance with section 136 of the Residential Tenancies Act 1986, give a tenant to whom subsection (1) applies written notice of the reduction or increase in rent concerned, stating—

• (a) the day on which it takes effect (being a day no earlier than the commencement of the first rent period commencing after the appointed day); and

• (b) the matters referred to in paragraphs (j) and (k) of section 13A of that Act.

(3) In the case of an increase in rent, the notice must comply with section 24 of the Residential Tenancies Act 1986.

(4) In the case of a reduction in rent, the notice has effect as a variation of the tenancy agreement for the housing, whether or not the tenant signs it.

(1) The income-related rent for any HNZ housing (calculated on a weekly basis) is the higher of the following rents:

• (a) a rent calculated by reference to household income under subsection (2):

• (b) a rent calculated by reference to benefit levels under subsection (3).

(2) A rent calculated by reference to household income is the sum of—

• (a) the prescribed proportion of the sum of the assessable incomes of the applicable persons concerned, up to the prescribed threshold (or the threshold prescribed for tenants of a category to which the tenant belongs); and

• (b) the prescribed proportion of any amount by which that sum is greater than that threshold; and

• (c) if any of the applicable persons is eligible to receive family tax credits under subparts MA to MF and MZ of the Income Tax Act 2007, the prescribed proportion of the lesser of—

  • (i) the total of the amounts that the applicable persons are eligible to receive as family tax credits under that subpart; and

  • (ii) a prescribed amount (or an amount calculated by a prescribed means).

(3) A rent calculated by reference to benefit levels is the sum of—

• (a) the prescribed proportion of the rate (before abatement) stated in paragraphs (a) to (j) of clause 1 of Schedule 9 of the Social Security Act 1964 that would be appropriate if the tenant were a beneficiary; and

• (b) if any of the applicable persons is eligible to receive family tax credits under subparts MA to MF and MZ of the Income Tax Act 2007, the prescribed proportion of the lesser of—

  • (i) the total of the amounts that the applicable persons are eligible to receive as family tax credits under that subpart; and

  • (ii) a prescribed amount (or an amount calculated by a prescribed means).

(4) The income-related rent for any HNZ housing must not exceed its market rent for the time being.

(5) Subsection (4) overrides subsection (1).

(6) [Repealed]

The assessable income of an applicable person is the company's estimate of the person's weekly income from all sources,—

• (a) if the company considers that income tax is payable on any part of it, after the deduction of whichever of the following the company thinks fit in the particular case:

  • (i) any income tax actually paid in respect of or deducted from that part; or

  • (ii) the company's estimate of the amount of income tax payable in respect of it; and

• (b) if the company considers that any premium is payable in respect of any part of it under section 219(1) of the Accident Compensation Act 2001, after the deduction of whichever of the following the company thinks fit in the particular case:

  • (i) any premium actually paid in respect of that part; or

  • (ii) the company's estimate of the amount of premium payable in respect of it; and

• (c) if the company considers that any levy is payable in respect of any part of it under section 219(2) of the Accident Compensation Act 2001, after the deduction of whichever of the following the company thinks fit in the particular case:

  • (i) any levy actually paid in respect of that part; or

  • (ii) the company's estimate of the amount of levy payable in respect of it.

(1) For the purposes of section 47, a person's weekly income includes—

• (a) the appropriate weekly proportion of any periodical payment, whether capital or not, made to the person on a regular basis by any other person for income-related purposes and used by the person for income-related purposes; and

• (b) the appropriate weekly proportion of the value of any goods, service, transport, or accommodation (other than accommodation provided by the company) supplied to the person on a regular basis by any other person.

(2) A person's weekly income includes contributions from additional residents to the extent only required by the calculation mechanism.

(3) Subsection (1) does not limit the generality of section 47.

(4) Subsection (2) overrides subsection (1) and section 47.

(1) For the purposes of section 47, a person's weekly income—

• (a) includes any amount or payment (or, as the case requires, the appropriate weekly proportion of any amount or payment) of a prescribed description:

• (b) does not include any amount or payment (or, as the case requires, the appropriate weekly proportion of any amount or payment) of a prescribed description.

(2) Subsection (1)(a) does not limit the generality of section 47.

(3) Subsection (1)(b) overrides sections 47 and 48(1).

(1) Assessable assets generate imputed income at a rate of interest for the time being stated by the shareholding Ministers by notice in the Gazette; and, for the purposes of section 47,—

• (a) the gross income from any person's assessable assets is the greater of the actual income from those assets and the imputed income they generate; and

• (b) the person's weekly income must be estimated accordingly.

(2) In subsection (1), assessable assets has the meaning prescribed.

(1) If satisfied that—

• (a) an applicable person has directly or indirectly deprived himself or herself of any income or property; and

• (b) as a consequence of the deprivation, an income-related rent of any HNZ housing in respect of which the person is an applicable person is (or but for this section would be) lower than it would otherwise be,—

the company may treat the person's assessable income as having been increased to the extent the company thinks necessary to reflect the deprivation, or any lesser extent.

(2) Subsection (1) overrides sections 46(1) and 52.

(3) In this section,—

For the purposes of section 47, a person's weekly income is the person's estimated income for the prescribed period commencing on the day on which the estimation is made (or in the case of an application backdated under section 44 or a review under section 57 or action taken under section 58(4), the day from which the estimation is made), divided so as to equate to a weekly amount; but—

• (a) that estimated income must be treated as an amount equal to—

  • (i) the company's estimate of the income received by the person for any period equal to the prescribed period (ending on a day before the day concerned) that the company decides, divided so as to equate to a weekly amount; or

  • (ii) if the company thinks it more appropriate in all the circumstances, the company's estimate of the income received by the person for any shorter period (ending on a day before the day concerned) that the company decides, divided so as to equate to a weekly amount; and

• (b) there may be deducted from that amount any items by which the company is satisfied the income is likely to be reduced, and there may be added to that amount any items by which the company is satisfied the income is likely to be increased.

(1) The Governor-General may, by Order in Council, make regulations for any or all of the following purposes:

• (a) prescribing a definition of assessable assets for the purposes of section 50(2):

• (b) prescribing matters contemplated by sections 46 to 52:

• (c) providing for any other matters contemplated by sections 46 to 52, necessary for their administration, or necessary for giving them full effect.

(2) The regulations may—

• (a) prescribe a zero proportion (or a means for calculating proportions capable of producing a zero proportion) for the purposes of any provision:

• (b) prescribe a proportion or threshold (or a means for calculating a proportion or threshold) for the purposes of any provision by reference to any or all of the following matters:

  • (i) the relationship status of the tenant concerned:

  • (ii) the relationship status of the applicable persons concerned:

  • (iii) the number of dependent children of the tenant concerned:

  • (iv) the number of dependent children of the applicable persons concerned:

  • (v) the number of people living or intended to live in the housing concerned:

• (c) prescribe a threshold (or a means for calculating a threshold) for the purposes of any provision by reference to the rate of a benefit within the meaning of section 3(1) of the Social Security Act 1964, or the rates of 2 or more such benefits.

(3) A means for calculating may comprise any number of mechanisms and parameters.

(4) Subsection (2) does not limit the generality of subsection (1).

(5) Subsection (2) overrides the Human Rights Act 1993.

(6) Subsection (5) is for the avoidance of doubt.

(1) This section and Schedule 3 apply to a tenant of HNZ housing if, but for the provisions of that schedule,—

• (a) the rent that the tenant would be required to pay for the first rent period commencing on or after the appointed day—

would be greater than—

• (b) the rent, after the deduction of any accommodation assistance (within the meaning of clause 1 of Schedule 3) to which the tenant was entitled, that the tenant was required to pay for the last rent period commencing before the appointed day.

(2) Schedule 3 overrides section 43.

For the purposes of section 54 and Schedule 3,—

• (a) the company may, with the consent of the applicable persons concerned, give the department that is, with the authority of the Prime Minister, for the time being responsible for the administration of the Social Security Act 1964 details of—

  • (i) those persons' assessable incomes and the components of those incomes, and their cash assets, as supplied to the company under section 43(1); and

  • (ii) the weekly market rent in relation to the housing; and

  • (iii) the dates of the beginning and end of the rent period in respect of the housing that commenced immediately prior to the appointed day; and

• (b) an officer or employee of the department may, on the basis of the details given,—

  • (i) certify in writing to the applicable persons the kinds of accommodation assistance (within the meaning of clause 1 of Schedule 3) they were receiving and, in respect of assistance of each kind, whether they were receiving more than their entitlement, their entitlement, or less than their entitlement immediately before the appointed day; and

  • (ii) give the company a copy of the certificate; and

• (c) the company may rely on the certificate.

(1) Every person to whom any HNZ housing is let at an income-related rent must promptly advise the company of—

• (a) any change in the person's circumstances likely to result in the payment of a higher income-related rent; and

• (b) any change known to the person in the circumstances of any other applicable person likely to result in the payment of a higher income-related rent.

(2) A person does not commit an offence by reason only of failing to comply with subsection (1).

(1) The company may at any time, of its own motion or on application by the tenant concerned, review any income-related rent to ascertain—

• (a) whether it or some other income-related rent is now appropriate for the housing concerned; or

• (b) whether at some earlier time it or some other income-related rent was appropriate for the housing concerned; or

• (c) both.

(2) After reviewing the rent, the company,—

• (a) if satisfied that some other income-related rent is now appropriate for the housing concerned, may calculate and charge that other rent for the tenant:

• (b) if satisfied that at some earlier time a higher income-related rent was appropriate for the housing concerned, may take action under section 60:

• (c) if satisfied that at some earlier time a lower income-related rent was appropriate for the housing concerned, must make any necessary refund.

(3) The company—

• (a) does not have to act under subsection (2)(a) unless, in the company's opinion, it would result in a material difference to the rent to be paid for the housing concerned; and

• (b) does not have to act under subsection (2)(b) unless, in the company's opinion, there has been a material underpayment of rent for the housing concerned.

(1) The company may investigate—

• (a) the present circumstances of—

  • (i) any tenant of HNZ housing who is paying, or has applied to the company for the company to calculate, an income-related rent for the housing; or

  • (ii) any person who is an applicable person in relation to the tenant:

• (b) to the extent that those circumstances might be relevant to the eligibility of a prospective tenant to be allocated HNZ housing, or to the housing need of a prospective tenant, the present circumstances of—

  • (i) the prospective tenant; or

  • (ii) any person who would be an applicable person in relation to the prospective tenant:

• (c) the circumstances (as they existed immediately before the income-related rent concerned was calculated or during any period when it was applicable) of—

  • (i) any tenant or former tenant of HNZ housing who was required to pay an income-related rent for the housing; or

  • (ii) any person who was an applicable person in relation to the tenant or former tenant at the time concerned.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), the company—

• (a) may ask any person whose circumstances it may investigate under that subsection any relevant questions it thinks fit; and

• (b) may ask any person whose circumstances it may investigate under that subsection to verify by statutory declaration—

  • (i) any information he or she has given when answering questions asked under paragraph (a); or

  • (ii) any other information that he or she has at any time given to the company; or

  • (iii) any information within his or her personal knowledge that any of the applicable persons concerned has at any time given to the company.

(3) The company may take the actions stated in subsection (4) if—

• (a) any person whose circumstances it may investigate under subsection (1)—

  • (i) fails or refuses to answer (or, in the company's opinion, fails or refuses to answer fully) any question asked under subsection (2)(a); or

  • (ii) fails or refuses to verify any information by statutory declaration when asked to do so under subsection (2)(b); or

• (b) it believes on reasonable grounds that any person whose circumstances it may investigate under subsection (1) has wilfully given a false or misleading answer to any question asked under subsection (2)(a).

(4) The actions are—

• (a) to the extent that the tenant is the person or people to whom any HNZ housing is let or to be let,—

  • (i) calculate an income-related rent for the tenant for that housing on the basis of its own understanding of the circumstances; or

  • (ii) treat the market rent for that housing as the income-related rent for the tenant for that housing:

• (b) to the extent that the tenant is a prospective tenant only,—

  • (i) suspend the process of determining whether to allocate, assign, or let any HNZ housing to the prospective tenant; or

  • (ii) decline the tenant's application to become a tenant of HNZ housing.

(1) For the purposes of a review under section 57 or an investigation under section 58, the company may request any person to—

• (a) answer questions; or

• (b) allow the company to inspect any document or other written information; or

• (c) give the company—

  • (i) a copy of any document or other written information; or

  • (ii) a printout of any information stored digitally.

(2) The person does not have to comply with the request; but (for the purposes of section 7(1) of the Privacy Act 1993) this subsection authorises the person to make personal information available in response to the request.

(1) Subsection (2) applies to a tenant of HNZ housing and a period of time if, at any later time, the company—

• (a) has in its possession information (whether or not obtained as a result of a review under section 57 or an investigation under section 58) that—

  • (i) it did not have during that period, or had but did not have reasonable grounds to believe; and

  • (ii) it now believes on reasonable grounds; and

• (b) is satisfied that, if it had had the information before the period and had had reasonable grounds to believe the information, it would have required the tenant to pay an income-related rent higher than the income-related rent the tenant was in fact required to pay for the housing in respect of the period.

(2) If this subsection applies to a tenant of HNZ housing and a period of time, the company may calculate, and recover as a debt due to the Crown, the difference between—

• (a) the higher income-related rent it would have required the tenant to pay for the housing in respect of the period; and

• (b) the income-related rent the tenant was in fact required to pay for the housing in respect of the period.

(3) Amounts recoverable under subsection (2) are not rent in arrear for the purposes of the Residential Tenancies Act 1986.

(1) The things to which the company may have regard in doing either or both of the things stated in subsection (2) may include criteria that have, or are capable of having, the effect that people (including prospective tenants, people who might be applicable persons in relation to those prospective tenants, and other people who might reside in the housing concerned) are treated differently on the basis of—

• (a) their marital status, disability or absence of disability, age, or family status (as the terms marital status, disability, age, and family status are defined in paragraphs (b), (h), (i), and (l) of section 21(1) of the Human Rights Act 1993); or

• (b) whether or not they are resident, or ordinarily resident, or permanently resident, or lawfully resident, in New Zealand; or

• (c) their incomes; or

• (d) their property; or

• (e) 2 or more of those factors.

(2) The things are—

• (a) assess the eligibility of prospective tenants to be allocated HNZ housing; and

• (b) allocate, assign, and let HNZ housing to prospective tenants.

(3) Subsection (1) overrides the Human Rights Act 1993.

(4) This section is for the avoidance of doubt.

(1) This subsection applies to—

• (a) any decision or determination of the company made under this Part, the calculation mechanism, or Schedule 3 (other than a decision under section 43(4)) in respect of an income-related rent; and

• (b) any assessment by the company of—

  • (i) the eligibility of any prospective tenant to be allocated HNZ housing; or

  • (ii) the housing needs of any prospective tenant.

(2) At any time on or after the appointed day, a tenant may, in accordance with regulations made under section 63, appeal against a decision, determination, or assessment to which subsection (1) applies, if the company—

• (a) has confirmed it (whether as originally made or as varied) under the process for the time being established by the company to review such decisions; or

• (b) has no such process for the time being established.

(3) In determining the appeal, the appeal body has all the powers, duties, functions, and discretions the company had in relation to the matter concerned; and may—

• (a) confirm, modify, or reverse the decision or determination; or

• (b) refer all or any part of the matter back to the company for further consideration, together with—

  • (i) any directions it thinks just relating to the reconsideration; and

  • (ii) a written statement of its reasons for doing so.

(4) The appeal body—

• (a) may award costs against the company in respect of any appeal if—

  • (i) it is allowed in whole or in part; or

  • (ii) all or any part of the matter is referred back to the company for further consideration; and

• (b) may award costs against the appellant in respect of any appeal that is refused, if the appeal body believes that it was frivolous or vexatious, or should not have been brought.

(5) If regulations under section 63(1)(a) establish a body to dispose of appeals under this section, any party to any appeal to the body who is dissatisfied with any determination of the body may appeal to a District Court; and in that case,—

• (a) within 14 days after the date of the determination, the appellant must lodge a notice of appeal with the court, and forthwith deliver or post a copy of the notice to every other party to the appeal:

• (b) the court or a Judge may, on the application of the appellant or intending appellant, extend any time prescribed or allowed under this section for the lodging of a notice of appeal:

• (c) except as provided by this subsection, the case must be dealt with in accordance with the District Courts Rules 2009.

(6) Nothing in this section, or in any regulations under section 63, limits or affects the rights of any tenant of HNZ housing under the Residential Tenancies Act 1986.

(1) The Governor-General may, by Order in Council, make regulations for all or any of the following purposes:

• (a) for the purposes of section 62,—

  • (i) establishing a body to dispose of appeals under that section, prescribing how its members are to be appointed, and prescribing how it is to hear and dispose of appeals; or

  • (ii) providing that such appeals are to be made to the Social Security Appeal Authority established by the Social Security Act 1964 as if they were appeals against decisions or determinations under that Act, and providing that sections 12J to 12N, and 12P to 12R of that Act apply, with or without modification, to the hearing and disposal of appeals; or

  • (iii) providing that such appeals are to be made to a District Court, and providing that the District Courts Act 1947 and the High Court Rules apply, with or without modification, to the hearing and disposal of appeals; or

  • (iv) providing that such appeals are to be made to the Tenancy Tribunal established by the Residential Tenancies Act 1986 as if they were applications under that Act, and providing that sections 86 to 120 of that Act apply, with or without modification, to the hearing and disposal of appeals:

• (b) providing for any other matters contemplated by the provisions of this Part (other than sections 46 to 52), necessary for their administration, or necessary for giving them full effect.

(2) Any body established under subsection (1)(a)(i) is a statutory board within the meaning of the Fees and Travelling Allowances Act 1951; and every member of it is entitled to—

• (a) remuneration by way of fees, salary, or allowances, for the member's services as a member of it:

• (b) payment of travelling allowances and expenses in respect of time spent travelling in its service.

(1) The company—

• (a) cannot delegate a power under section 57(2)(b), any of subsections (2)(b), (3), or (4) of section 58, or section 60, except to a person who is an employee of the company, the Corporation, or Community Housing Limited; and

• (b) cannot delegate any other power under this Part, the calculation mechanism, or Schedule 3, except to a person who is—

  • (i) an employee of the company, the Corporation, or Community Housing Limited; or

  • (ii) a person engaged by the company under a contract for services providing for the person to exercise that power.

(2) If the company delegates a power under this Part, the calculation mechanism, or Schedule 3 (not being a power referred to in subsection (1)(a)) to a body corporate engaged by the company under a contract for services,—

• (a) the body corporate cannot subdelegate it except to a person who is an employee of the body corporate; and

• (b) an employee of the body corporate to whom it is subdelegated cannot subdelegate it further.

(3) Subsections (1) and (2) override section 130(1) of the Companies Act 1993.

Section 7 has effect as if—

• (a) this Part, the calculation mechanism, and Schedule 3 were a requirement by the Crown for the company to enter into agreements (as the circumstances from time to time require) for the provision by the company of housing and related services to persons who are required to pay income-related rents rather than market rents for the housing, in return for the payment by the Crown of the price to the company of doing so; and

• (b) that price were the difference between the amounts of market rents for the housing and the income-related rents charged.

In this Part, unless the context otherwise requires,—

The purpose of section 68 is to facilitate the disclosure of information by the Corporation to the department for the purpose of helping the department to—

• (a) verify the entitlement or eligibility of any person to or for any benefit; and

• (b) verify the amount of any benefit to which any person is or was entitled or to which any person is or was eligible; and

• (c) recover debts due to the Crown (acting by and through the department) in respect of benefits.

(1) For the purpose stated in section 67, the chief executive of the department may from time to time request the Corporation to supply, in respect of persons who are tenants in relation to Corporation housing, or were tenants of that kind on or after the commencement of the Housing Restructuring and Tenancy Matters (Information Matching) Amendment Act 2006,—

• (a) the biographical information held by the Corporation that is sufficient to identify those persons, including their addresses; and

• (b) the details of the tenancies of those persons held by the Corporation that are necessary for the purpose stated in section 67.

(2) A request under subsection (1) must be made in accordance with arrangements made from time to time between the chief executive of the department and the Corporation.

(3) On receipt of a request under subsection (1), the Corporation may supply the information requested to any person who is an officer or employee or agent—

• (a) of the chief executive of the department; and

• (b) authorised for the purpose by that chief executive.

(4) Information supplied under a request under subsection (1) may be supplied in a form determined by agreement between the Corporation and the chief executive of the department.

Examples of the information and details referred to in section 68(1)(a) and (b) are, for every tenant or former tenant,—

• (a) his or her full name, any other names used by him or her, and his or her date of birth; and

• (b) the full name, any other names used by, and the date of birth of, his or her spouse or partner (if any) and the full names, any other names used by, and the dates of birth of, any dependent children of the tenant or his or her spouse or partner (if any); and

• (c) the physical address of the Corporation housing that is the subject of the tenancy; and

• (d) the start date, end date (if any), and weekly rent of the tenancy; and

• (e) his or her income, and the components of it, as advised by him or her on any form or forms, or in any other information, supplied to the Corporation for the purposes of enabling it to determine his or her rental, and the period or periods to which that income, or a component of it, relates; and

• (f) any address or other details supplied to the Corporation for the purposes of enabling it to contact him or her after the tenancy has ended.