States Grants
(Petroleum Products) Act 1973
No. 112 of 1973
AN
ACT
To
amend the States Grants (Petroleum Products) Act 1965–1969.
[Assented to 16 October 1973]
BE
IT ENACTED by the Queen, the Senate and the House of Representatives of
Australia, as follows:—
Short
title and citation.
1. (1) This Act may be cited as the States Grants (Petroleum Products) Act 1973.
(2) The States
Grants (Petroleum Products) Act 1965–1969, as amended by this Act,
may be cited as the States Grants (Petroleum Products) Act 1965–1973.
Commencement.
2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives
the Royal Assent.
Repeal.
3. Section 6 of the States
Grants (Petroleum Products) Act 1965–1969 is repealed.
4. After section 7 of the States
Grants (Petroleum Products) Act 1965–1969 the following section is
inserted:—
Disallowance
of amendment of schedule to scheme.
“7a. (1) In
this section, ‘amendment’, in relation to the schedule to the scheme in
relation to a State, includes the substitution of another schedule for that
schedule.
“(2) The provisions of sections 48 and 49 of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901–1973 (other
than paragraphs (a) and (b) of sub-section (1), sub-section (2) and sub-section
(6) of the first-mentioned section) apply, by force of this section, to
amendments of the schedules to the schemes in relation to the States in like
manner as those provisions apply in relation to regulations.
“(3) Where an amendment of the schedule to the
scheme in relation to a State is disallowed, or is to be deemed to be
disallowed, under a provision of the Acts
Interpretation Act 1901