States Grants (Air Quality Monitoring) Act 1976 (Cth)

STATES GRANTS (AIR QUALITY MONITORING) ACT 1976 [Note: This Act is "repealed" by Act No. 130 of 1992]
(#DATE 30:04:1984)

- Reprinted as at 30 April 1984 *1* The States Grants (Air Quality Monitoring) Act 1976 as shown in this reprint comprises Act No. 82, 1976 amended as indicated in the Tables below. Table of Acts ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Application, saving or Number Date Date of transitional Act and year of Assent commencement provisions ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- States Grants (Air Quality Monitoring) Act 1976 82, 1976 10 June 1976 10 June 1976 Administrative Changes (Consequential Provisions) Act 1978 36, 1978 12 June 1978 12 June 1978 S. 8 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Table of Amendments ad. = added or inserted am. = amended rep. = repealed rs. = repealed and substituted ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Provision affected How affected ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ss. 6-8 . . . . . . . am. No. 36, 1978 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

STATES GRANTS (AIR QUALITY MONITORING) ACT 1976 - TABLE OF PROVISIONS 
TABLE

                             TABLE  OF  PROVISIONS
Section
  1.       Short title
  2.       Commencement
  3.       Interpretation
  4.       Approval of works, &c.
  5.       Grants for air quality monitoring
  6.       Statement as to expenditure
  7.       Advances
  8.       Overpayments
  9.       Appropriation

STATES GRANTS (AIR QUALITY MONITORING) ACT 1976 - LONG TITLE 
SECT

An Act to provide Financial Assistance to the States for Purposes connected
with the Monitoring of the Quality of the Outdoor Atmosphere

STATES GRANTS (AIR QUALITY MONITORING) ACT 1976 - SECT 1 
Short title 
SECT

  1. This Act may be cited as the States Grants (Air Quality Monitoring) Act
1976.*1*
SEE NOTES TO FIRST ARTICLE OF THIS CHAPTER .

STATES GRANTS (AIR QUALITY MONITORING) ACT 1976 - SECT 2 
Commencement 
SECT

  2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the
Royal Assent.*1*
SEE NOTES TO FIRST ARTICLE OF THIS CHAPTER .

STATES GRANTS (AIR QUALITY MONITORING) ACT 1976 - SECT 3 
Interpretation 
SECT

  3. In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears-
  "air quality monitoring" means the measurement and observation of, and of
conditions affecting the movement of, contaminants in the outdoor atmosphere,
and includes the recording, arrangement, analysis and publication of
information arising from any such measurement or observation;
  "year to which this Act applies" means the year ending on 30 June 1976.

STATES GRANTS (AIR QUALITY MONITORING) ACT 1976 - SECT 4 
Approval of works, &c. 
SECT

  4. For the purposes of this Act, a State may, during the year to which this
Act applies, request the Minister to approve, in relation to that year,
specified works, items of equipment, facilities or things in connexion with
air quality monitoring in the State (including such a work, item of equipment,
facility or thing in respect of which the State has, during that year but
before the commencement of this Act, incurred expenditure), and the Minister
may approve such a work, item of equipment, facility or thing in relation to
that year.

STATES GRANTS (AIR QUALITY MONITORING) ACT 1976 - SECT 5 
Grants for air quality monitoring 
SECT

  5. Subject to section 6, where a State has, during the year to which this
Act applies, incurred expenditure in connexion with works, items of equipment,
facilities and things approved (whether before or after the expenditure) under
section 4 in relation to that year, there is payable to the State in respect
of that year, by way of financial assistance-
  (a)  an amount equal to one-half of the expenditure so incurred; or
  (b)  the sum of $33,333,
whichever is the less.

STATES GRANTS (AIR QUALITY MONITORING) ACT 1976 - SECT 6 
Statement as to expenditure 
SECT

  6. A State is not entitled to financial assistance under this Act in
relation to expenditure incurred by the State unless the State has furnished
to the Minister for Finance-
  (a)  a statement in respect of that expenditure, in accordance with a form
approved by the Minister for Finance, accompanied by a certificate by the
Auditor-General of the State certifying that, in his opinion, the expenditure
shown in the statement was incurred by the State in connexion with works,
items of equipment, facilities and things approved under section 4; and
  (b)  such further information (if any) as the Minister for Finance requires
in respect of that expenditure.

STATES GRANTS (AIR QUALITY MONITORING) ACT 1976 - SECT 7 
Advances 
SECT

  7. The Minister for Finance may, at such times and in such amounts as he
thinks fit, make advances to a State on account of an amount that may become
payable under this Act to the State.

STATES GRANTS (AIR QUALITY MONITORING) ACT 1976 - SECT 8 
Overpayments 
SECT

  8. Payment to a State under this Act of an amount (including an advance made
under section 7) is subject to the condition that the State will repay to the
Commonwealth, on demand by the Minister for Finance, the amount by which, at
the time of the demand, the total of the amounts (including any such advances)
paid to the State under this Act exceeds the total of the amounts that have
become payable to the State under section 5.

STATES GRANTS (AIR QUALITY MONITORING) ACT 1976 - SECT 9 
Appropriation 
SECT

  9. Amounts payable to a State under this Act are payable out of the
Consolidated Revenue Fund, which is appropriated accordingly.