{"id":"C1954A00038","name":"States Grants (Special Financial Assistance) Act 1954","slug":"states-grants-special-financial-assistance-act-1954","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"38 of 1954","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":14755,"registerId":"commonwealth-C1954A00038-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-03-31","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"States Grants (Special Financial Assistance) Act 1954","content":"STATES GRANTS (SPECIAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE).\n\nNo. 38 of 1954.\n\nAn Act to grant and apply out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund sums for the purpose of Financial Assistance to the States.\n\n\\[Assented to 29th October, 1954.\\]\n\nBE it enacted by the Queen’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 (Special Financial Assistance) Act 1954.\n\nCommencement.\n\n2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.\n\n  \nFinancial assistance to States.\n\n3. There is payable to each State, during the year which commenced on the first day of July, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-four, for the purpose of financial assistance, an amount calculated in accordance with the next succeeding section.\n\nAmount of financial assistance payable.\n\n4. The amount payable to a State under this Act is the amount by which the amount calculated in respect of that State under sections six and seven of the States Grants (Tax Reimbursement) Act 1946-1948 in respect of the year which commenced on the first day of July, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-four, is less than the amount that would be payable to that State if the aggregate grant to be divided amongst the States in accordance with section seven of that Act in respect of that year were One hundred and fifty million pounds.\n\nAppropriation.\n\n5. Payments in accordance with this Act shall be made out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, which is appropriated accordingly.","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":1526},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The legislation remains strictly limited to its original purpose as a temporary, one-year supplementary grant mechanism for the 1954-55 financial year. It has not expanded beyond this narrow fiscal adjustment role."},"complexity_factors":["Requires cross-reference to the States Grants (Tax Reimbursement) Act 1946-1948 for base calculation figures","Contains a mathematical comparison between actual calculated grants and a hypothetical £150 million aggregate benchmark","Limited to a single financial year (commencing 1 July 1954), creating a time-bound conditional application"],"plain_english_summary":"This Act makes a one‑off federal \"top‑up\" payment in 1954–55 to each Australian State so that each receives at least the amount they would have gotten if the total tax‑reimbursement pool had been £150 million. It fills the gap between actual 1946 Act receipts and that £150 million benchmark.\n\nIt affects the six States and serves as a temporary budgetary guarantee supplementing the existing tax‑reimbursement scheme."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/states-grants-special-financial-assistance-act-1954","history":"/api/acts/states-grants-special-financial-assistance-act-1954/history","analysis":"/api/acts/states-grants-special-financial-assistance-act-1954/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/states-grants-special-financial-assistance-act-1954/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/states-grants-special-financial-assistance-act-1954/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/states-grants-special-financial-assistance-act-1954/documents"}}