Local Government (Financial
Assistance) Amendment Act 1987
No.
45 of 1987
An
Act to amend the Local Government (Financial Assistance) Act
1986
[Assented to 5 June 1987]
BE
IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and the House of Representatives of the
Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:
Short
title etc.
1. (1)
This Act may be cited as the Local
Government (Financial Assistance) Amendment Act 1987.
(2) The Local Government (Financial
Assistance) Act 19861is in this Act called the
Principal Act.
Commencement
2. This
Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
State
entitlements for local government purposes
3. Section
7 of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end the following
subsection:
“(11) So far as practicable, but
subject to section 8, the amount to which a State is entitled under this
section in respect of a year shall be paid in equal quarterly instalments.”.
NOTE
1. No. 79, 1986.
[Minister’s
second reading speech made in—
House of Representatives on 29 May 1987
Senate on 1 June 1987