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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 2 Hansard (29 February) . . Page.. 588 ..

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MINISTER FOR HOUSING

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION

QUESTION NO 157

Housing Trust - Eviction Summonses and Warrants

MS MCRAE - asked the Minister for Housing and Family Services -

(1) How many ACT Housing tenants have been summoned to a court hearing in (a) October 1995; (b) November 1995; (c) December 1995; (d) January 1996 and (e) February 1996 in order to be evicted from their properties.

(2) How many of the eviction orders given by Housing were overturned by a magistrate.

MR STEFANIAK - The answer to the Member's question is as follows -

The questions asked by Ms McRae are unclear. For this reason the number of warrants granted has been added to the answer. Only 25 warrants of eviction have been granted by the court since October 1995.

(1) (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) and (2)

Month Number Summoned Overturned Warrants Granted*
(Warrants Refused)

October 1995 21 Nil 5

November 1995 29 Nil 10

December 1995 22 3 5

January 1996 37 Nil 5

February 1996 Details Incomplete Nil Nil

ACT DEPARTMENT
OF URBAN SERVICES Quality housing for all Canberrans

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