accommodation

Accommodation for Housing Support Products means the premises that a client occupies or intends to occupy as a home for the purpose of accommodation.

A premises is considered accommodation regardless of whether or not the Residential Tenancies Act 1986 applies, but does not include the following:

• premises owned in part or fully by the applicant or their spouse or partner
• tents, including tents adjoined to vehicles
• homeless shelters
• prisons and correctional facilities
• premises used to provide emergency or transitional accommodation for which—
  • an Emergency Housing Grant has been made to the applicant or their spouse or partner; or
  • any other payment has been made by a government department for the provision of emergency or transitional accommodation to people in need of housing