EXPLANATORY STATEMENT – INSTRUMENT 2019/2
Issued by Authority of the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development
Subject - National Land Transport Act 2014
Roads to Recovery List 2019
Allocations for the Roads to Recovery Program, to run from 1 July 2014 to 30 June 2019, were determined on 31 October 2018 (see Roads to Recovery List 2019).
Under s.88(2B) of the National Land Transport Act 2014, the List may be varied to increase an amount specified for a person or body in the List.
On 2 April 2019, the Australian Government announced that it will provide an additional $1.1 billion for the Roads to Recovery Program over eleven years from 2019-20, increasing the funding to the program to $500 million per year from $400 million per year. This instrument increases the allocation for each body in the List by their share of the April 2019 additional funding, which is an increase of 25 per cent for every council from 2019-20 to 2023‑24.
The additional funding has been allocated using the same splits between states and territories and unincorporated areas as was used in determining the allocations in the original list and the increases for individual councils are based on the recommendations of the relevant local government grants commission for the 2018-19 local roads component of the Financial Assistance Grants. This is the same formula used for the allocations in the original List.
Subsection 88(3) of the NLT Act allows the List to be varied to update the name of a body specified in the List.
This Instrument also changes the name of the Yalata Community Inc to the Yalata Anangu Aboriginal Corporation.
The Instrument commences on 31 July 2019 with payments from the additional funding to commence from August 2019.
Authority:
Subsection 88(2B) of the National Land Transport Act 2014
Subsection 88(3) of the National Land Transport Act 2014