Clause 19. Responsibilities

19

Responsibilities

(1)

An applicant must comply with the following responsibilities from the 8th night of a stay in emergency housing, paid for by an emergency housing grant or grants made to the applicant, during their emergency housing event-

(a)

engage with support services, if a referral has been made by MSD (see subclause (6)); and

(b)

make reasonable efforts to obtain other housing, including accessing other sources of housing assistance or other assistance; and

(c)

pay the emergency housing contribution by the date or dates determined by MSD under clause 23(4).

(2)

Before making any subsequent grant under clause 15 MSD must be satisfied that an applicant complied with subclause (1) (if that subclause applied) from when MSD last made an emergency housing grant to the applicant for the same emergency housing event.

(3)

MSD must determine that an applicant has failed to comply with the responsibilities in subclause (1) if, when the applicant applies for a subsequent emergency housing grant under clause 15 for the same emergency housing event, MSD is satisfied that the applicant, without good and sufficient reason, has failed to comply with one or more of the responsibilities in subclause (1).

(4)

If MSD determines that the applicant has failed to comply with the responsibilities in subclause (1), MSD must notify the applicant in writing, of that decision.

(5)

A notification in subclause (4) for a decision that does not result in a non-entitlement period applying to an applicant must include a warning about the consequences of any future failure to comply with responsibilities.

(6)

When making an emergency housing grant under clause 15, MSD may refer an applicant to support services for the purposes of subclause (1)(a).