Clause 4. Interpretation

4

Interpretation

(1)

In this direction, unless the context otherwise requires:

Act means the Public and Community Housing Management Act 1992

applicable person, in relation to any particular social housing, means:

(a)

a tenant of the housing; and

(b)

includes every person who is the spouse or partner of a tenant

dependent child, in relation to a person:

(a)

has the same meaning as in Schedule 2 of the Social Security Act 2018, and also means-

(i)

a child who, on or after the child's 18th birthday, is included as a dependent child in the person's dependent child rate benefit or specified children's benefit under sections 103B to 103F of the Social Security Act 2018, until the end of a determined period under section 103F(2) of that Act:

(ii)

a child who, the agency is satisfied based on all relevant information available to the agency, on or after the child's 18th birthday, meets the criteria in (a) to (c) of section 103F(1) of the Social Security Act 2018 for a period the agency determines, but ending no later than the start of the week after 31 December in the year the child turns 18.

(b)

includes a child or young person (within the meaning of the Oranga Tamariki Act 1989) placed in the person's charge under section 362 of that Act for whom payments are being made under section 363 of that Act

tenant, in relation to any particular social housing, means the person or people to whom it is let

transferred HNZ housing means HNZ housing that HNZ has acquired from a local authority, a council-controlled organisation, or a council-controlled trading organisation (as those terms are defined in the Local Government Act 2002)

(2)

Terms used in this direction and that are not defined in subclause (1) but are defined in section 2(1) of the Act have the same meanings in this direction.