STATES GRANTS (ADMINISTRATION OF CONTROLS
REIMBURSEMENT).
No. 56 of
1948.
An Act to
make provision for the grant of Financial Assistance to the States in connexion
with the administration of Prices, Rents and. Land Sales Controls, and for
other purposes.
[Assented to 3rd December, 1948.]
BE it enacted by the King’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 (Administration of Controls Reimbursement) Act 1948.
Commencement.
2. This Act
shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
Grants
to States.
3.—(1.) There shall be payable to each State, for the
purposes of financial assistance towards the costs of administering prices,
rents and land sales controls in that State during the financial year which
commenced on the first day of July, One thousand nine hundred and forty-eight,
such amount as is determined in accordance with the provisions of this Act.
(2.) Payment of any amount to a State under this
Act shall be subject to the condition that if the total of the amounts paid to
the State in pursuance of section four of this Act exceeds the amount
determined by the Treasurer in pursuance of section six of this Act, the amount
of the excess shall be repaid by the State to the Commonwealth.
Payment
of instalments.
4. The
Treasurer may, at such times as he thinks fit, make advances of such amounts as
he thinks fit to a State on account of the total amount payable to that State
under this Act.
Statement
of expenditure by State.
5.—(1.) The Premier of each State shall, as soon as
possible after the thirtieth day of June, One thousand nine hundred and
forty-nine, forward to the Treasurer a statement, duly certified by the
Auditor-General of that State, setting out the amount actually expended by that
State in administering prices, rents and land sales controls during the
financial year which commenced on the first day of July, One thousand nine
hundred and forty-eight.
(2.) The Treasurer may disallow any item of
expenditure set out in a statement forwarded to him in pursuance of the last
preceding sub-section.
Amount
of grant payable to State.
6. Upon
receipt of a statement from the Premier of a State in accordance with
sub-section (1.) of the last preceding section, there shall be payable to that
State, in addition to any amounts paid to the State in pursuance of section
four of this Act, such further amount (if any) as the Treasurer determines, but
so that no payment made under this section shall cause the total amount paid to
the State under this Act to exceed the amount set out in the statement
forwarded in pursuance of sub-section (1.) of the last preceding section less
the amount of any item of expenditure disallowed by the Treasurer in pursuance
of sub-section (2.) of that section.
Appropriation.
7.