21Power of Kāinga Ora–Homes and Communities to require information, and to terminate sales and leases where false information is furnished

1. Kāinga Ora–Homes and Communities may require any applicant for the purchase, lease, or tenancy of any State housing land on which any dwelling or other building is erected, or the wife, husband, civil union partner, or de facto partner of that applicant,—

2. to furnish such information as Kāinga Ora–Homes and Communities may specify as to the means and circumstances of the applicant and of the wife, husband, civil union partner, or de facto partner of the applicant:
3. to verify any such information by statutory declaration.

4. If any such applicant is convicted under section 302 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1927, or under section 133 of the Crimes Act 1908, of an offence in respect of any statutory declaration made for the purposes of this section, Kāinga Ora–Homes and Communities may thereupon terminate any lease or tenancy or rescind any agreement for sale which it has granted to or entered into with the applicant either alone or together with any other person in respect of any State housing land, and may recover possession of the land to which the lease, tenancy, or agreement relates, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Residential Tenancies Act 1986.