{"id":"C1934A00035","name":"South Australia Grant Act 1934","slug":"south-australia-grant-act-1934","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"35 of 1934","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":3677,"registerId":"commonwealth-C1934A00035-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-03-30","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"South Australia Grant Act 1934","content":"SOUTH AUSTRALIA GRANT.\n\nNo. 35 of 1934.\n\nAn Act to grant and apply out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund a sum for the purposes of Financial Assistance to the State of South Australia.\n\n\\[Assented to 4th August, 1934.\\]\n\nPreamble.\n\nBE it-enacted by the King’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:—\n\nShort title.\n\n1. This Act may be cited as the South Australia Grant Act 1934.\n\nPayment for financial assistance to South Australia.\n\n2. There shall be payable, for the purposes of financial assistance to the State of South Australia, during the year commencing on the first day of July One thousand nine hundred and thirty-four, the sum of One million four hundred thousand pounds.\n\nMethod of payment.\n\n3. The amount payable under this Act shall be paid in equal monthly instalments.\n\nAppropriation.\n\n4. Payments in accordance with this Act shall be made out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, which is hereby appropriated accordingly.","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":1869},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This is a standalone, single-purpose appropriation Act. Its scope remains exactly as originally enacted: a specific one-off payment to South Australia with no expansion of purpose or function."},"complexity_factors":["Only 4 operative sections with no subsections or schedules","No definitions or interpretation clauses","No cross-references to other legislation","Single unconditional appropriation with no exceptions, conditions or contingencies","Linear payment structure requiring only simple arithmetic (equal monthly division)"],"plain_english_summary":"This Act authorises the Commonwealth to pay South Australia £1,400,000 (about $140 million today) from the Consolidated Revenue Fund as general financial assistance in the 1934–35 year. Payments are to be made in 12 equal monthly instalments.\n\nIt’s a one‑off “grant Act” giving Parliament’s legal authority for a Depression‑era bailout to help the state meet its obligations when revenues had collapsed."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/south-australia-grant-act-1934","history":"/api/acts/south-australia-grant-act-1934/history","analysis":"/api/acts/south-australia-grant-act-1934/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/south-australia-grant-act-1934/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/south-australia-grant-act-1934/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/south-australia-grant-act-1934/documents"}}