Tasmania
Grant
No.
91 of 1969
An
Act to grant Financial Assistance to the State of Tasmania.
[Assented to 27 September 1969]
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 Tasmania Grant Act 1969.
Commencement.
2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it
receives the Royal Assent.
Payment
of financial assistance to Tasmania.
3.—(1.) Subject to this section, there is payable to the State of
Tasmania, during the year that commenced on the first day of July, One thousand
nine hundred and sixty-nine, for the purpose of financial assistance, the sum
of Twenty-one million nine hundred thousand dollars.
(2.) The amount
payable under the last preceding sub-section shall be reduced by the sum of any
amounts paid to the State of Tasmania under section 4 of the States Grants (Special Assistance) Act 1968.
Advances
for year 1970–71.
4. The Treasurer may, during the period of six months
commencing on the first day of July, One thousand nine hundred and seventy,
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 payable under sub-section (1.) of the last preceding section.
Appropriation.
5.