AusLink (National Land Transport) Act 2005
Explanatory statement – Variation of AusLink Roads to Recovery List No. 2008/3
On 2 August 2005, the Minister determined a list of bodies to receive Roads to Recovery funds (the list) and their allocations as required under s.87 of the AusLink (National Land Transport) Act 2005 (the Act). The bodies listed are the local government authorities that existed at the time but there is provision in the Act to amend the list to take account of council amalgamations etc. Several changes have already occurred which are now reflected in the list.
Local government in Queensland was restructured with effect from 15 March 2008 and the list was amended by instrument 2008/1 to reflect these changes. Unfortunately, the instrument purported to remove eight funding recipients which are listed in the original August 2005 list under slightly different names. It is necessary to amend the list to remove these councils using the names by which they are listed in the original instrument.
The name of one of the eight councils proposed for removal, the Erub Community Community Council, appears to be an error. In fact, we understand that it is, with the duplicated word, the alternative name for the Erub Island Council. This instrument removes the name as it appears in the original list.
Section 88(3) of the Act allows for the errors to be corrected. This instrument will correct those errors.