States Grants
(Special Assistance)
No. 138 of 1968
An Act to Grant
Financial Assistance to the States of Western Australia and Tasmania.
[Assented
to 9 December 1968]
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 (Special Assistance) Act 1968.
Commencement.
2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives
the Royal Assent.
Payment
of financial assistance to Western Australia and Tasmania.
3.—(1.) Subject to this section, there is payable
during the year that commenced on the first day of July, One thousand nine
hundred and sixty-eight, to a State specified in the Schedule to this Act, for
the purpose of financial assistance, the amount specified in that Schedule
opposite to the name of that State.
(2.) The amount payable to the State of Tasmania
under the last preceding sub-section shall be reduced by the sum of any amounts
paid to that State under section 4 of the States
Grants (Special Assistance) Act 1967.
Advances
for year 1969-70.
4. The Treasurer may, during the period of six months commencing on
the first day of July, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-nine, make advances
to the State of Tasmania, for the purpose of financial assistance, of amounts
not exceeding in the whole a sum equal to one-half of the amount specified in
the Schedule to this Act opposite to the name of that State.
Appropriation.
5. Payments in accordance with this Act shall be made out of the
Consolidated Revenue Fund, which is appropriated accordingly.
THE
SCHEDULE
Section 3.
$
|
Western Australia.......................................................................................
| 582,000
|
Tasmania...................................................................................................
| 16,810,000
|
17,392,000
|