Albury-Wodonga
Development (Financial Assistance) Amendment Act 1982
No.
42 of 1982
An Act to vary
the conditions of certain financial assistance provided pursuant to the Albury-Wodonga Development (Financial
Assistance) Act 1973 and to repeal section 10 of that Act
[Assented to 9 June 1982]
BE
IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and the House of Representatives of the
Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:
Short
title, &c.
1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Albury-Wodonga Development (Financial Assistance) Amendment Act 1982.
(2) The Albury-Wodonga Development (Financial Assistance) Act 19731
is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.
Commencement
2. (1) Subject to sub-section (2), this Act shall come into operation
on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
(2) Section 3 shall be
deemed to have come into operation on 1 July 1981.
Payment
for certain purposes to be loans
3. Section 10 of the
Principal Act is repealed.
Conditions
relating to repayment, &c., of certain financial assistance deemed to cease
to apply
4. (1) Where an amount by way
of financial assistance in respect of expenditure referred to in section 4 of
the Principal Act, other than financial assistance in respect of such of that
expenditure as was expenditure on municipal works, was paid or advanced under
the Principal Act as in force at a time before the commencement of section 3 of
this Act to a State by way of a loan—
(a)
every condition to which that payment or advance was subject immediately before
1 July 1981, being a condition relating to—
(i)
the repayment of the principal, or payment of interest, by the State in respect
of that payment or advance; or
(ii)
the payment by the State of an amount in respect of such interest,
shall be
deemed to have ceased to apply in relation to that payment or advance on 1 July
1981; and
(b)
where, by reason of such a condition, an amount of interest payable by the
State in respect of that payment or advance, or an amount payable by the State
in respect of such interest, had accrued before that date, but that amount had
not been, and was not required to be, paid before that date, the obligation to
pay that amount shall be deemed to have ceased on that date.
(2) Nothing in sub-section
(1) shall be taken to affect any condition other than a condition referred to
in that sub-section to which a payment or advance to which that sub-section
applies is, or has at any time been, subject.
NOTE
1. No. 190,
1973. For previous amendments, see No. 36, 1978.