STATES GRANTS (NATURE CONSERVATION)
AMENDMENT ACT 1976
No. 154 of 1976
An Act to amend the States
Grants (Nature Conservation)
Act 1974.
BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and House of Representatives
of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—
Short title, &c.
1. (1) This Act may be cited as
the States Grants (Nature
Conservation) Amendment Act 1976.
(2) The States
Grants (Nature Conservation)
Act 1974 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.
Agreements with State Ministers.
2. Section 4 of the Principal
Act is amended—
(a) by
omitting from sub-section (1) the word “Australia” and substituting the words “the
Commonwealth”;
(b) by
omitting paragraph (a) of sub-section (1) and substituting the following paragraph:—
“(a) agree with an appropriate Minister of
a State upon programs connected with nature conservation in that State,
including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing—
(i)
programs of land acquisition by that State or an approved authority of that
State; and
(ii)
programs related to the management of, or the provision of facilities in, parks
or reserves established under a law of that State for the purposes of nature
conservation; and”; and
(c) by
inserting in sub-section (3), after the words “under paragraph (1) (a)”, the
words “relating to a program of land acquisition”.
Expenditure to be for approved purposes.
3. Section 7 of the Principal
Act is amended by inserting in paragraph (a), before the words “the land”
(first occurring), the words “in the case of expenditure incurred in the
acquisition of land,”.
Advances.
4. Section 8 of the Principal
Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (2) the word “Australia” and
substituting the words “the Commonwealth”.
Saving.
5. A program agreed upon in
accordance with paragraph 4(1)(a) of the Principal Act before the commencement
of this Act continues to be an approved program within the meaning of the
Principal Act as amended by this Act as if it had been agreed upon in accordance
with paragraph 4(1)(a) of the Principal Act as so amended.