States Grants (Beef Cattle Roads) Act 1968 (Cth)

STATES GRANTS (BEEF CATTLE ROADS) ACT 1968
- Reprinted as at 31 July 1981 (#DATE 31:07:1981)

*1* The States Grants (Beef Cattle Roads) Act 1968 (a) as shown in this reprint

comprises Act No. 44, 1968 as amended by the other Act specified in the
following table:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Application,
saving
Number Date Date of or
transitional
Act and year of Assent commencement provisions
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- States Grants (Beef
Cattle Roads) Act
1968 44, 1968 19 June 1968 19 June 1968
States Grants (Beef
Cattle Roads) Act
1974 74, 1974 4 Oct 1974 4 Oct 1974 -
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- (a) This citation is provided for by the Amendments Incorporation Act 1905
and the Acts Citation Act 1976.

STATES GRANTS (BEEF CATTLE ROADS) ACT 1968 - TABLE OF PROVISIONS 
TABLE

                             TABLE  OF  PROVISIONS

Section

  1.        Short title

  2.        Commencement

  3.        Interpretation

  4.        Approval of work

  5.        Grant of financial assistance

  6.        Standards of design and construction

  7.        Information to be furnished by States

  8.        Certain expenditure not to be taken into account for purposes of

            Commonwealth Aid Roads Act

  9.        Advances

  10.       Over-payments

  11.       Appropriation

  12.       Relief from conditions as to repayment of certain moneys
previously

            granted by way of financial assistance

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STATES GRANTS (BEEF CATTLE ROADS) ACT 1968 - LONG TITLE 
SECT

An Act to grant Financial Assistance to the States of Queensland, Western
Australia and South Australia in connexion with the construction of certain
Roads to be used for the transport of Beef Cattle

STATES GRANTS (BEEF CATTLE ROADS) ACT 1968 - SECT. 1. 
Short title 
SECT

  1. This Act may be cited as the States Grants (Beef Cattle Roads) Act
1968.*1*
See notes to first article of this CHAPTER.

STATES GRANTS (BEEF CATTLE ROADS) ACT 1968 - 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 (BEEF CATTLE ROADS) ACT 1968 - SECT. 3. 
Interpretation 
SECT

  3. (1) In this Act, ''approved work'', in relation to a State to which this
Act applies, means a work approved by the Minister under sub-section (1) of
the next succeeding section.
  (2) For the purposes of this Act, each of the following States is a State to
which this Act applies:

  (a)  the State of Queensland;

  (b)  the State of Western Australia; and

  (c)  the State of South Australia.
  (3) For the purposes of this Act, each of the following years is a year to
which this Act applies:

  (a)  the year ending on the thirtieth day of June, One thousand nine hundred
and sixty-eight; and

  (b)  each of the next six succeeding years.

STATES GRANTS (BEEF CATTLE ROADS) ACT 1968 - SECT. 4. 
Approval of work 
SECT

  4. (1) For the purposes of this Act, the Minister may-

  (a)  at the request of a State to which this Act applies made before the
commencement of or during a year to which this Act applies, approve, in
relation to that year, a work in connexion with the construction of roads in
the State to be used for the transport of beef cattle; and

  (b)  vary such an approval.
  (2) Works that may be approved under the last preceding sub-section
include-

  (a)  works in connexion with the construction of a road from the
intersection of the Duncan Highway with the Behn River to Dingo Gap on the
road from the Duncan Highway to Timber Creek; and

  (b)  works in connexion with the improvement of that part of the road from
the Duncan Highway to Timber Creek that lies between the Duncan Highway and
Dingo Gap,

whether those works or any part or parts of those works are to be carried out
in the Northern Territory of Australia or not.

STATES GRANTS (BEEF CATTLE ROADS) ACT 1968 - SECT. 5. 
Grant of financial assistance 
SECT

  5. (1) Subject to this Act, there are payable to a State to which this Act
applies, by way of financial assistance, amounts equal to the amounts expended
by the State in a year to which this Act applies on works approved under
sub-section (1) of the last preceding section in relation to that year,
including amounts so expended before the giving of the approval.
  (2) The amounts paid under this Act to a State to which this Act applies
shall not exceed, in the aggregate-

  (a)  in the case of the State of Queensland-Thirty-nine million five hundred
thousand dollars;

  (b)  in the case of the State of Western Australia-Nine million five hundred
thousand dollars; and

  (c)  in the case of the State of South Australia-One million dollars.
Added by No. 74, 1974, s. 3

  (3) For the purposes of sub-section (1), amounts expended by the State of
Queensland, in the period that commenced on 1 July 1974 and ends on 31
December 1974, in carrying out works approved under sub-section (1) of section
4 in relation to the year that ended on 30 June 1974 shall be deemed to have
been expended in that year.

STATES GRANTS (BEEF CATTLE ROADS) ACT 1968 - SECT. 6. 
Standards of design and construction 
SECT

  6. The Minister may, for the purposes of this Act, approve standards of
design or construction for any approved work to be carried out by a State to
which this Act applies and if, after standards so approved have been notified
to the State, expenditure is incurred by the State in carrying out that work
otherwise than in accordance with those standards, the Minister may direct
that payment under this Act shall not be made in respect of that expenditure.

STATES GRANTS (BEEF CATTLE ROADS) ACT 1968 - SECT. 7. 
Information to be furnished by States 
SECT

  7. (1) The Minister may request a State to which this Act applies to furnish
to him, not later than a specified date before the commencement of a year to
which this Act applies, such information as he specifies in relation to the
expenditure proposed to be incurred by the State during that year in connexion
with specified approved works and, if the Minister so requests, the State is
not entitled to financial assistance under this Act in relation to expenditure
incurred by the State during that year in connexion with those works unless
the State has furnished that information.
  (2) A State to which this Act applies is not entitled to financial
assistance under this Act in relation to any particular expenditure by the
State unless the State has furnished to the Treasurer-

  (a)  a statement in respect of that expenditure in a form approved by the
Treasurer, accompanied by a certificate of the Auditor-General of the State
certifying that the expenditure shown in the statement was incurred in
connexion with approved works; and

  (b)  such further information, if any, as the Treasurer requires in respect
of that expenditure.

STATES GRANTS (BEEF CATTLE ROADS) ACT 1968 - SECT. 8. 
Certain expenditure not to be taken into account for purposes of Commonwealth 
Aid Roads Act 
SECT

  8. Amounts expended by a State to which this Act applies in relation to
which amounts have been paid, or are payable, to the State under this Act
shall not be taken into account for the purposes of section 4 of the
Commonwealth Aid Roads Act 1964.*2*
*2* S. 8-The Commonwealth Aid Roads Act 1964 was repealed by the Statute Law

Revision Act 1973 (No. 216, 1973).

STATES GRANTS (BEEF CATTLE ROADS) ACT 1968 - SECT. 9. 
Advances 
SECT

  9. The Treasurer may, at such times as he thinks fit, make advances of such
amounts as he thinks fit to a State to which this Act applies on account of an
amount that may become payable under this Act to the State.

STATES GRANTS (BEEF CATTLE ROADS) ACT 1968 - SECT. 10. 
Overpayments 
SECT

  10. Payment of an amount (including an advance) under this Act to a State to
which this Act applies is subject to the condition that the State will repay
to the Commonwealth, on demand by the Treasurer, the amount by which, at the
time of the demand, the total of the amounts (including advances) paid to the
State under this Act exceeds the total of the amounts that have become payable
to the State under section 5 of this Act.

STATES GRANTS (BEEF CATTLE ROADS) ACT 1968 - SECT. 11. 
Appropriation 
SECT

  11. Amounts payable under this Act are payable out of the Consolidated
Revenue Fund, which is appropriated accordingly.

STATES GRANTS (BEEF CATTLE ROADS) ACT 1968 - SECT. 12. 
Relief from conditions as to repayment of certain moneys previously granted 
by 
way of financial assistance 
SECT

  12. Upon completion of the works referred to in paragraph (a) of sub-section
(2) of section 4 of this Act, section 7 of the States Grants (Encouragement of
Meat Production) Act 1949-1954*3* ceases to apply to and in relation to
payments made under that Act in respect of the construction of that part of
the road from Wyndham to Nicholson Station that lies between the Behn River
and the junction of that road with the road to Timber Creek.
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*3* S. 12-The States Grants (Encouragement of Meat Production) Act 1949 was

repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 1973 (No. 216, 1973).