WESTERN AUSTRALIA GRANT (BEEF CATTLE ROADS).
No. 83 of 1962.
An Act to grant Financial Assistance to the
State of Western Australia for Works in connexion with certain Roads to be used
for the transport of Beef Cattle.
[Assented to 12th December, 1962.]
BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate,
and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, for the
purpose of appropriating the grant originated in the House of Representatives,
as follows:—
Short title.
1. This Act
may be cited as the Western Australia
Grant (Beef Cattle Roads) Act 1962.
Commencement.
2. This Act
shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
Definitions.
3.— In this Act—
“the northern part of the State” means that
part of the State that is north of the twentieth parallel of south latitude;
“the State” means the State of Western
Australia.
Years to which Act applies.
4. This Act
applies to the year ending on the thirtieth day of June, One thousand nine
hundred and sixty-three, and to each of the next three succeeding years.
Approval of works.
5.For
the purposes of this Act, the State may, before or during a year to which this
Act applies, request the Commonwealth to approve, in relation to that year,
specified works in connexion with roads in the northern part of the State to be
used for the transport of beef cattle, and the Treasurer may, on behalf of the
Commonwealth, approve any such work in relation to that year.
Grant of financial assistance.
6.—(1.) Subject
to this Act, there are payable to the State, for the purpose of financial
assistance, amounts equal to the amounts expended by the State in a year to
which this Act applies on works approved under the last preceding section in
relation to that year, including amounts so expended before the giving of the
approval.
(2.) The amounts payable to the State under this
Act in respect of expenditure by the State in a year to which this Act applies
shall not exceed, in the aggregate—
(a)in the case of the year ending on the
thirtieth day of June, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-three— Seven hundred
thousand pounds; and
(b)in the case of any other year—Seven
hundred and fifty thousand pounds.
(3.) The amounts payable to the State under this
Act shall not exceed, in the aggregate, one-half of the total of the amounts
expended by the State in the years to which this Act applies on all works in
connexion with roads in the northern part of the State.
Standards of design and construction.
7.The
Treasurer may, for the purposes of this Act, approve standards of design or
construction for any work approved under section five of this Act and if, after
standards so approved have been notified to the State, expenditure is incurred
by the State in carrying out that work otherwise than in accordance with those
standards, the Treasurer may direct that payments under this Act shall not be
made in respect of that expenditure.
Statements of expenditure.
8.—(1.) The
State is not entitled to a payment under this Act in respect of any expenditure
by the State unless the State furnishes to the Treasurer, as soon as
practicable after the end of the half-yearly period in which the expenditure
was made—
(a)a statement, in accordance with a form
approved by the Treasurer, giving particulars of the expenditure;
(b)a certificate by the Auditor-General of
the State that the particulars shown in the statement are correct; and
(c)
such other relevant information as the Treasurer requests.
(2.) In the last preceding sub-section, “half-yearly
period” means a period of six months ending on the thirty-first day of December
or the thirtieth day of June.
Certain expenditure not to be taken into
account for purposes of Commonwealth Aid Roads Act.
9. Amounts
expended by the State in a year to which this Act applies on works approved
under section five of this Act in relation to the year shall not, except to the
extent to which those amounts exceed the amount specified in relation to that
year in sub-section (2.) of section six of this Act, be taken into account for
the purposes of section six of the Commonwealth
Aid Roads Act 1959.
Advances.
10.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.
11.Payment
to the State under this Act of any amount (including an advance) shall be
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 six of this Act.
Appropriation
12.