STATES
GRANTS (DROUGHT RELIEF).
No. 70 of 1946.
An Act to grant and apply out of the
Consolidated Revenue Fund a Sum for the purpose of making Grants to certain
States for the purpose of Drought Relief.
[Assented to 14th December, 1946.]
[Date of commencement, 11th January, 1947.]
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 (Drought Relief) Act 1946.
Definition.
2. In this Act, “cereal crops” means crops of
wheat, oats or barley or wheaten or oaten hay.
Payment for financial assistance to certain
States.
3. There shall be payable out of the Consolidated
Revenue Fund, which is hereby appropriated accordingly, the amounts payable in
accordance with this Act, but not exceeding in the whole the sum of Five
hundred and twenty thousand pounds, for the purpose of financial assistance to
the States of New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia, or such of those
States as the Governor-General, having regard to the effects of drought on
cereal crops in each of those States, determines.
Allocation of grant.
4. The amount payable to each State under this
Act shall be such amount as the Governor-General determines, but no such
determination shall be made until after the Minister has conferred with the
Premiers of each of the States to which an amount is payable under this Act
concerning the amounts to be paid to those States.
Conditions of grant.
5. Any amount granted and paid to a State under
this Act shall be paid to that State upon condition—
(a)that it is applied by that State, in a manner approved by the Minister, for
the purpose of the alleviation of hardship suffered, in consequence of drought,
by persons concerned in the production of cereal crops; and
(b)