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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 1 Hansard (15 February) . . Page.. 99 ..

. Temporary Accommodation Allowance payments,

whichever occurs first.

9. Accommodation standards

9.1Government or Accommodation or temporary accommodation must

rental not be taken to be unsuitable to the needs of the

accommodation officer by reason only that the accommodation is:

� provided by the ACT Government; or

� is available only for rent by the officer by way of a lease or tenancy agreement.

9.2 Unfurnished Unfurnished housing at the relocation locality may not

housing 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.

9.3Furniture If unfurnished housing is not regarded as suitable

removal - long-term accommodation and TAA is payable as a

unfurnished result, household furniture and effects should be

house removed to the unfurnished housing wherever economical and practicable. The relevant Chief Executive may authorise payment for later removal of household furniture and effects to permanent housing. Where unfurnished housing is rented and staff hire furniture (provided that this is economical), Chief Executives may allow reasonable hire costs within the TAA rent ceiling.

9.4 Furniture If furnished housing is rented, staff may supplement

removal - the furniture provided with household furniture and

furnished effects of their own, but the relevant Chief Executive

house must be satisfied under section B: 4.5 that removal of the items is reasonable. Items may be removed at agency expense from previous housing or from storage to the temporary housing and subsequently to permanent housing.

10. Special conditions - SES

10.1 Application Rule B: 10 refers to SES staff who may be relocated as a result of a fixed-term appointment or engagement, or relocated on term transfer to a new locality and moved again at the end of that term, either to the former locality or to another transfer locality.

10.1.1 Subject to eligibility, all the following special TAA provisions apply to substantive SES officers on

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