{"id":"C1969A00091","name":"Tasmania Grant Act 1969","slug":"tasmania-grant-act-1969","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"91 of 1969","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":5398,"registerId":"commonwealth-C1969A00091-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-03-30","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Tasmania Grant Act 1969","content":"Tasmania Grant\n\nNo. 91 of 1969\n\nAn Act to grant Financial Assistance to the State of Tasmania.\n\n\\[Assented to 27 September 1969\\]\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 Tasmania Grant Act 1969.\n\nCommencement.\n\n2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.\n\n  \n\nPayment of financial assistance to Tasmania.\n\n3.—(1.) Subject to this section, there is payable to the State of Tasmania, during the year that commenced on the first day of July, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-nine, for the purpose of financial assistance, the sum of Twenty-one million nine hundred thousand dollars.\n\n(2.) The amount payable under the last preceding sub-section shall be reduced by the sum of any amounts paid to the State of Tasmania under section 4 of the States Grants (Special Assistance) Act 1968.\n\nAdvances for year 1970–71.\n\n4. The Treasurer may, during the period of six months commencing on the first day of July, One thousand nine hundred and seventy, make advances to 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 payable under sub-section (1.) of the last preceding section.\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":1369},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The Act maintains a narrow, specific scope limited to financial assistance payments to Tasmania for designated financial years, exactly as described in the short title and preamble."},"complexity_factors":["Only 5 sections with no defined terms","Single purpose: direct monetary appropriation","Minimal conditional logic (only one reduction clause referencing a prior Act)","No cross-references to complex regulatory schemes","Straightforward arithmetic calculations only"],"plain_english_summary":"This law authorizes a one-off payment of **$21.9 million** from the Commonwealth to Tasmania for the 1969-70 financial year as general financial assistance.\n\n**Key points:**\n- The payment is reduced by any amounts already given to Tasmania under the *States Grants (Special Assistance) Act 1968*\n- The Treasurer can also make **advance payments** to Tasmania for the first six months of the 1970-71 financial year, capped at half of the main amount (roughly $10.95 million)\n- All money comes from the **Consolidated Revenue Fund** (the government's main bank account containing tax revenue)\n\nThis is a simple appropriation (spending) law with no ongoing legal effect beyond authorizing these specific grants."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/tasmania-grant-act-1969","history":"/api/acts/tasmania-grant-act-1969/history","analysis":"/api/acts/tasmania-grant-act-1969/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/tasmania-grant-act-1969/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/tasmania-grant-act-1969/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/tasmania-grant-act-1969/documents"}}