{"id":"C1941A00059","name":"States Grants Act 1941","slug":"states-grants-act-1941","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"59 of 1941","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":4121,"registerId":"commonwealth-C1941A00059-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-03-30","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"States Grants Act 1941","content":"STATES GRANTS.\n\nNo. 59 of 1941.\n\nAn Act to grant and apply out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund sums for the purposes of Financial Assistance to the States of South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania.\n\n\\[Assented to 3rd December, 1941.\\]\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 States Grants Act 1941.\n\n  \n\nCommencement.\n\n2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.\n\nPayment for financial assistance to States.\n\n3. There shall be payable to the States of South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania, during the year which commenced on the first day of July, One thousand nine hundred and forty-one, for the purposes of financial assistance, the sum of Two million, three hundred thousand pounds.\n\nAllocation of grant.\n\n4. The amount payable to each State under this Act shall be the amount shown in the following table opposite the name of that State:—\n\n|                                     | £         |\n| ----------------------------------- | --------- |\n| South Australia...................  | 1,150,000 |\n| Western Australia.................. | 630,000   |\n| Tasmania.......................     | 520,000   |\n|                                     | 2,300,000 |\n\nMethod of payment.\n\n5. The amount payable to any State under this Act shall be paid to that State in equal monthly instalments.\n\nAppropriation.\n\n6. 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":1731},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The legislation remains tightly focused on its original purpose of providing specific financial assistance grants to three designated states for the 1941-42 financial year, with no expansion beyond the appropriation mechanism described in the title and preamble."},"complexity_factors":["No defined terms or interpretation section requiring legal construction","No cross-references to other legislation or complex statutory schemes","Linear structure with unconditional, straightforward payment obligations","Simple arithmetic allocation (fixed sums) without formulas or conditional triggers","No exceptions, exemptions, or nested provisions"],"plain_english_summary":"The Act authorises the Commonwealth to pay £2.3 million from the Consolidated Revenue Fund to South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania in 1941–42, disbursed in equal monthly instalments. It gives untied financial relief to those three states and draws on federal revenue, reflecting wartime fiscal equalisation to help smaller states maintain services during World War II."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/states-grants-act-1941","history":"/api/acts/states-grants-act-1941/history","analysis":"/api/acts/states-grants-act-1941/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/states-grants-act-1941/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/states-grants-act-1941/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/states-grants-act-1941/documents"}}