States
Grants (Aboriginal Advancement)
No. 130 of 1971
An Act to grant Financial Assistance
to the States in connexion with the Welfare and Advancement of the Aboriginal
People of Australia.
[Assented to 16 December 1971]
BE it enacted
by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of
Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—
Short title.
1.This Act may
be cited as the States Grants (Aboriginal Advancement) Act 1971.
Commencement.
2. This Act shall come into operation on the day
on which it receives the Royal Assent.
Grants of financial assistance to
States.
3.—(1.) There is payable, during the year that commenced on the first day
of July, One thousand nine hundred and seventy-one, to each State, for the
purpose of financial assistance in connexion with the welfare and advancement
of the Aboriginal people of Australia living in that State, amounts not
exceeding in the whole the amount specified in the Schedule to this Act
opposite to the name of that State.
(2.) The grant of financial assistance to a State
under this Act is subject to the following conditions:—
(a) that
each amount paid to a State under this Act will be applied by the State, in a
manner and within a time approved by the Minister, for the purposes of
expenditure in connexion with the welfare or advancement of Aboriginal people
of Australia living in that State; and
(b)that,
if the Minister informs the Treasurer of that State that he is satisfied that
the State has failed, in respect of an amount paid to the State under this Act,
to fulfil the condition referred to in the last preceding paragraph, the State
will repay that amount to the Commonwealth.
Payments to be made out of Trust
Account.
4.A payment to
a State under this Act shall be made out of the Aboriginal Advancement Trust
Account established under section 62a of
the Audit Act 1901-1969.
THE
SCHEDULE Section 3(1.).
$ |
New South Wales........................................................................................
| 2,400,000 |
Victoria.......................................................................................................
| 400,000 |
Queensland..................................................................................................
| 3,038,000 |
South Australia............................................................................................
| 800,000 |
Western Australia........................................................................................
| 2,500,000 |
Tasmania.....................................................................................................
| 62,000 |
9,200,000 |