{"id":"C1971A00122","name":"States Grants (Special Assistance) Act 1971","slug":"states-grants-special-assistance-act-1971","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"122 of 1971","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":2437,"registerId":"commonwealth-C1971A00122-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-03-29","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"States Grants (Special Assistance) Act 1971","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\nmeta-generator: Aspose.Words for .NET 20.2\n---\n\n?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"no\"?>\n\nStates Grants (Special Assistance)\n\nNo. 122 of 1971\n\nAn Act to grant Financial Assistance to the States of South Australia and Tasmania.\n\n[Assented to 13 December 1971]\n\nBE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—\n\nShort title.\n\n1. This Act may be cited as the States Grants (Special Assistance) Act 1971.\n\n\n\n\nCommencement.\n\n2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.\n\nPayment of financial assistance to South Australia and Tasmania.\n\n3.—(1.) Subject to this section, there is payable during the year that commenced on the first day of July, One thousand nine hundred and seventy-one, for the purpose of financial assistance—\n\n(a) to the State of South Australia—the sum of Seven million dollars; and\n\n(b) to the State of Tasmania—the sum of Seven million eight hundred thousand dollars.\n\n(2.) A sum payable to a State under the last preceding sub-section shall be reduced by the sum of any amounts paid to that State under section 4 of the States Grants (Special Assistance) Act 1970.\n\nAdvances for year 1972–73.\n\n4. The Treasurer may, during the period of six months commencing on the first day of July, One thousand nine hundred and seventy-two, make advances to the State of South Australia or the State of Tasmania, for the purpose of financial assistance, of amounts not exceeding in the whole a sum equal to one-half of the amount specified in the last preceding section in relation to that State.\n\nAppropriation.\n\n5. Payments in accordance with this Act shall be made out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, which is appropriated accordingly.\n\n \n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":1313},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The Act remains tightly focused on its original purpose of providing specific financial assistance grants to South Australia and Tasmania for the designated period. No scope creep is evident."},"complexity_factors":["Extremely short statute with only 5 operative sections","No defined terms or interpretation section","Simple arithmetic calculation (deduction of prior payments)","Single cross-reference to preceding year's Act","Straightforward appropriation mechanism with no conditions or exceptions beyond the deduction clause"],"plain_english_summary":"**What this law does**\n\nThis Act gives one-off financial help to two Australian states—South Australia and Tasmania—during the 1971–72 financial year.\n\n**The money**\n- **South Australia**: $7 million\n- **Tasmania**: $7.8 million\n\n**Important catch**: If either state already received money under the previous year's *States Grants (Special Assistance) Act 1970*, that amount gets deducted from the figures above.\n\n**Advances for next year**: The federal Treasurer can also pay each state up to half of their 1971–72 amount as an advance during the first six months of 1972–73.\n\n**Where the money comes from**: Payments are drawn from the Consolidated Revenue Fund (the Commonwealth's main bank account), which this Act legally approves for this purpose."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/states-grants-special-assistance-act-1971","history":"/api/acts/states-grants-special-assistance-act-1971/history","analysis":"/api/acts/states-grants-special-assistance-act-1971/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/states-grants-special-assistance-act-1971/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/states-grants-special-assistance-act-1971/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/states-grants-special-assistance-act-1971/documents"}}