States Grants (Petroleum Products)
No. 90 of 1969
An Act to amend section 6 of the States Grants (Petroleum Products) Acts 1965.
[Assented to 27 September 1969]
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 and citation.
1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the States Grants (Petroleum Products) Act 1969.
(2.) The States Grants (Petroleum Products) Acts 1965, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the States Grants (Petroleum Products) Act 1965–1969.
Commencement.
2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
Amendment of schedule to scheme.
3. Section 6 of the States Grants (Petroleum Products) Acts 1965 is amended—
(a) by omitting sub-section (3.);
(b) by omitting from sub-section (4.) the words “either of the last two preceding sub-sections” and inserting in their stead the words “sub-section (2.) of this section”; and
(c) by omitting sub-section (6.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-sections:—
“(6.) Before the first day of December, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-nine, the Minister may amend the schedule to the scheme in relation to a State by varying any rate set out in that schedule having regard to any change of circumstances that has occurred since the thirty-first day of December, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-four.
“(7.) An amendment made in accordance with the last preceding sub-section shall take effect on the first day of December, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-nine.
“(8.) Where, after the first day of December, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-nine, the Minister is satisfied that, by reason of circumstances that existed on that date, it is desirable to vary a rate set out in the schedule to the scheme in relation to a State, he may amend the schedule by varying that rate.”.