States (Tax Sharing and Health Grants) Amendment Act 1982 (Cth)

States (Tax Sharing and Health Grants) Amendment Act 1982

No. 8 of 1982

 

An Act to amend the States (Tax Sharing and Health Grants) Act 1981

[Assented to 30 March 1982]

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:

Short title, &c.

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the States (Tax Sharing and Health Grants) Amendment Act 1982.

(2) The States (Tax Sharing and Health Grants) Act 1981 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

Commencement

2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

 

Tax sharing grants for 1981-82

3. Section 8 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by inserting in sub-section (1) “other than the Northern Territory” after “State” (first occurring);

(b) by omitting sub-section (2) and substituting the following sub-section:

“(2) For the purposes of sub-section (1), the basic tax sharing grant, in relation to a State in respect of the year commencing on 1 July 1981, shall be an amount that is the product of $6,524,600,000 and the factor obtained by dividing the adjusted population figure in relation to that State in respect of that year by the total of the adjusted population figures in relation to all the States other than the Northern Territory in respect of that year.”; and

(c) by omitting sub-paragraphs (3) (b) (v) and (vi) and substituting the following word and sub-paragraph:

“and (v) in the case of Tasmania—2.00188.”.

4. After section 8 of the Principal Act the following sections are inserted:

Fixed tax sharing grant to the Northern Territory for 1981-82

“8a. The Northern Territory is entitled to the payment, in respect of the year commencing on 1 July 1981, by way of financial assistance, of $315,100,000.

Additional fixed tax sharing grant to Queensland for 1981-82

“8b. In addition to the payment to which Queensland is entitled under section 8 in respect of the year commencing on 1 July 1981, that State is entitled to the payment, in respect of that year, by way of financial assistance, of $9,000,000.”.

Minimum entitlements

5. Section 11 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting sub-section (3).

Review of distribution of Part II grants

6. Section 28 of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-section:

“(2) In sub-section (1), ‘States’ does not include the Northern Territory.”.

Schedule 2

7. Schedule 2 to the Principal Act is repealed and the following Schedule substituted:

“SCHEDULE 2 Section 8

ALLOCATIONS TO STATES

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Name of State	Special allocations	Allocations in lieu of terminated specific purpose programs
			New South Wales............................	$	$
				24,500,000	23,300,000
Victoria...........................................	26,000,000	19,300,000
Queensland......................................	20,500,000	12,300,000
South Australia................................	11,000,000	7,200,000
Western Australia............................	.. 5,000,000	4,800,000
Tasmania.........................................		2,200,000”.

Application

8. (1) An amount paid to a State under Part II of the Principal Act shall be taken, for the purposes of the Principal Act as amended by this Act, to have been paid under Part II of that Act as so amended.

(2) In sub-section (1), “State” includes the Northern Territory.

NOTE

1. No. 99, 1981.