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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 1 Hansard (15 February) . . Page.. 107 ..
suitable long-term housing is clearly not available and that staff are making genuine efforts to obtain such housing as soon as possible. Officers are not eligible for continued TAA unless they can show that the temporary housing they occupy is unsuitable for their longer-term needs, and that suitable accommodation genuinely cannot be found.
Unfurnished housing at the relocation locality may not necessarily be defined as being suitable if staff owned a home at the pre-relocation locality. If unfurnished housing is clearly temporary, and staff provide evidence of sustained and genuine efforts to buy a home at the transfer locality, TAA is payable.
19. Unsuitable accommodation
Generally, where officers take furnished housing in preference to available unfurnished housing, they may be presumed to have accepted the furnished housing as suitable.
19.1 Settling-in Officers who rented unfurnished housing at the pre-relocation locality are not entitled to TAA except during a settling-in period if suitable unfurnished rented housing can be obtained at the new locality.
20. Classifying accommodation
21. Officer responsibility
21.1 Officer to make The onus is on officers receiving TAA to continue to genuine efforts demonstrate that they are unable to secure housing
to find suitable which is suitable for their longer term needs, having
accommodation regard to their reasonable domestic requirements.
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