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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 9 Hansard (29 August) . . Page.. 2840 ..

. Dual occupancy policy for single unit residential leases was first introduced in February 1986. From February 1986 to November 1994 it was Departmental policy not to charge betterment following a variation of lease from a single residence to dual occupancy. On 21 November 1994 it was proposed to introduce a policy to charge 100% on the added value to residential leases following a variation to allow dual occupancy. Such a charge would be levied should the lessee make application to sub-divide the block by unit title. After the change of Government this proposed policy was scrapped and the sliding scale of remission still applies.

. In respect of Housing Trust Properties, any Trust property held by the Commissioner for Housing for a term commencing on or before 16 December 1987 a remission of 50% of the added value for a lease variation applies automatically. In cases involving leases issued after 16 December 1987 any remission is based on the sliding scale for variations to higher order residential or full cost to leases varying to include a commercial component.

. In cases involving variations of concessional and free of charge leases the same rules were applied as for commercial and residential leases. The only difference being that with the introduction of the sliding scale for remission on 22 February 1990 that a free of charge lease could receive a maximum remission rate after 20 years of 10% and a concessional lease 20%.

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