Local Government (Financial Assistance) Amendment Act 1987
No. 45 of 1987
An Act to amend the Local Government (Financial Assistance) Act 1986
[Assented to 5 June 1987]
BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:
Short title etc.
1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Local Government (Financial Assistance) Amendment Act 1987.
(2) The Local Government (Financial Assistance) Act 19861 is in this Act called the Principal Act.
Commencement
2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
State entitlements for local government purposes
3. Section 7 of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end the following subsection:
“(11) So far as practicable, but subject to section 8, the amount to which a State is entitled under this section in respect of a year shall be paid in equal quarterly instalments.”.
NOTE
1. No. 79, 1986.
[Minister’s second reading speech made in—
House of Representatives on 29 May 1987
Senate on 1 June 1987]