STATES
GRANTS.
No. 33 of 1939.
An Act to grant and apply out of the
Consolidated Revenue Fund sums for the purposes of Financial Assistance to the
States of South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania.
[Assented
to 26th September, 1939.]
Preamble.
BE
it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of
Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, for the purpose of
appropriating the grant originated in the House of Representatives, as
follows:—
Short
title.
1. This Act may be cited as the States
Grants Act 1939.
Commencement.
2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives
the Royal Assent.
Payment
for financial assistance to States.
3. There shall be payable, for the purposes of financial assistance to
the States of South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania, during the year
commencing on the first day of July, One thousand nine hundred and thirty-nine,
the sum of Two million and twenty thousand pounds.
Allocation
of grant.
4. The amount payable to each State under this Act shall be the amount
shown in the following table opposite the name of that State:—
£
|
South
Australia.....................................................
| 995,000
|
Western
Australia..................................................
| 595,000
|
Tasmania..............................................................
| 430,000
|
2,020,000
|
Method
of payment.
5.The amount payable to any State under this Act shall
be paid to that State in equal monthly instalments.
Appropriation.
6.