States Grants (Mental Health Institutions) Act 1970 (Cth)

States Grants (Mental Health Institutions)

No. 83 of 1970

An Act to amend the States Grants (Mental Health Institutions) Act 1964–1967 and for purposes connected therewith.

[Assented to 26 October 1970]

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 and citation.

1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the States Grants (Mental Health Institutions) Act 1970.

(2.) The States Grants (Mental Health Institutions) Act 1964–1967 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the States Grants (Mental Health Institutions) Act 1964–1970.

Commencement.

2.This Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on the first day of July, One thousand nine hundred and seventy.

Financial assistance for period from 1st July, 1964, to 30th June, 1973.

3.Section 5 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the word “seventy” and inserting in its stead the word “seventy-three”.

Financial assistance on or after 1st July, 1967.

4. Section 6 of the Principal Act is repealed.

Expenditure for purposes of this Act.

5. Section 8 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by omitting from paragraph (b)the words “, in respect of expenditure other than expenditure to which section 6 of this Act relates,”; and

(b)by omitting from that paragraph the word “sixty-nine” and inserting in its stead the word “seventy-two”.

Approval of expenditure between 1 July, 1969, and Assent.

6. For the purposes of section 8 of the Principal Act as amended by this Act, where—

(a)during the period commencing on the first day of July, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-nine, and ending on the day immediately preceding the day on which this Act received the Royal Assent, an amount has been expended for or in connexion with a purpose referred to in paragraph (a) of that section; and

(b) not later than the date referred to in paragraph (b)of that section, the Minister or a person referred to in paragraph (b)of that section approves that expenditure,

that approval shall be deemed to have been given before that expenditure was incurred.