TASMANIA GRANT (GORDON RIVER ROAD).
No. 5 of
1964.
An Act to grant Financial Assistance to the State of Tasmania in
connexion with the construction of a Road in the Gordon River Area of that
State.
[Assented to 23rd April, 1964.]
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 (Gordon River Road) Act 1964.
Commencement.
2. This Act
shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
Definitions.
3. In this
Act—
“the Gordon River road” means a road of a
length of approximately fifty miles to be constructed in the State from
Kallista near Maydena to the junction of the Gordon and Serpentine Rivers;
“the prescribed period” means the period of
four years that commenced on the first day of July, One thousand nine hundred
and sixty-three;
“the State” means the State of Tasmania.
Grant
of financial assistance.
4.—(1.) Subject to this Act, there are payable to the
State, by way of financial assistance, amounts equal to the amounts expended by
the State during the prescribed period on the construction of the Gordon River
road.
(2.) The amounts payable to the State under this
Act shall not exceed, in the aggregate, Two million five hundred thousand
pounds.
Standards
of design and construction.
5. The
Treasurer may, for the purposes of this Act, approve standards of design or
construction for the Gordon River road and if, after standards so approved have
been notified to the State, expenditure is incurred by the State on the
construction of that road otherwise than in accordance with those standards,
the Treasurer may direct that payments under this Act shall not be made in
relation to that expenditure.
Information
to be furnished by State.
6.—(1.) The Treasurer may request the State to furnish
to him, not later than a specified date before the commencement of a financial
year within the prescribed period, such information as he specifies in relation
to the expenditure proposed to be incurred by the State during that financial
year on the construction of the Gordon River road and, if the Treasurer so
requests, the State is not entitled to financial assistance under this Act in
relation to expenditure incurred by the State during that financial year unless
the State has duly furnished that information.
(2.) The State is not entitled to financial
assistance under this Act in relation to any particular expenditure by the
State unless the State has furnished to the Treasurer—
(a)a statement in respect of that
expenditure in a form approved by the Treasurer, accompanied by a certificate
of the Auditor-General of the State certifying that the expenditure shown in
the statement was incurred on the construction of the Gordon River road; and
(b)such further information, if any, as
the Treasurer requires in respect of that expenditure.
Certain
expenditure not to be taken into account for purposes of Commonwealth Aid roads
Act.
7. Amounts
expended by the State in relation to which amounts have been paid, or are
payable, to the State under this Act shall not be taken into account for the
purposes of section six of the Commonwealth
Aid Roads Act 1959.
Advances.
8. The
Treasurer may, at such times as he thinks fit, make advances of such amounts as
he thinks fit to the State on account of an amount that may become payable
under this Act to the State.
Overpayments.
9. Payment
to the State under this Act of any amount (including an advance) is subject to
the condition that the State will repay to the Commonwealth, on demand by the
Treasurer, the amount by which, at the time of the demand, the total of the
amounts (including advances) paid to the State under this Act exceeds the total
of the amounts that have become payable to the State under section four of this
Act.
Appropriation.
10.