States
Grants (Housing Assistance)
No. 40 of 1971
An
Act relating to Financial Assistance to the States for the purpose of Housing.
[Assented to 18 May 1971]
[Date of commencement 15 June 1971]
BE
it enacted by the Queen’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 (Housing Assistance) Act 1971.
Definition.
2. In this Act, “the Housing Agreement” means the agreement executed
in pursuance of the Housing Agreement Act
1956 as amended by the agreement executed in pursuance of the Housing Agreement Act 1961 and by the
agreement executed in pursuance of the Housing
Agreement Act 1966.
Authority
to Treasurer to make advances for purpose of housing.
3. The Treasurer may, during the financial year commencing on the
first day of July, One thousand nine hundred and seventy-one, out of moneys
lawfully available for the purpose, make such advances to a State as the
Commonwealth would be required to make to that State during that financial year
under the Housing Agreement if that Agreement applied in relation to that
financial year in like manner as it applies in relation to the financial year
that commenced on the first day of July, One thousand nine hundred and seventy.
Conditions
on which Treasurer may make advances.
4.—(1.) An advance to a State under this Act is
subject to the same conditions as would be applicable to the advance if the Housing
agreement applied in relation to the financial year commencing on the first day
of July, One thousand nine hundred and seventy-one, in like manner as it
applies in relation to the financial year that commenced on the first day of
July, One thousand nine hundred and seventy, and the advance were made under
that Agreement.
(2.) In
addition to the conditions applicable under the last preceding sub-section,
payment of an amount to a State under this Act is subject to the condition
that—
(a)if the Treasurer informs the Treasurer of the State that he is satisfied
that the State has failed to fulfil a condition applicable to that amount under
that sub-section, the State will repay that amount to the Commonwealth; and
(b)