5Payments to States

Payments to States

5. (1) In this section and in determinations for the purposes of paragraph (2) (a) or (b):

"Appropriation Act" means an Act appropriating money for expenditure in respect of a financial year and includes an Act appropriating money, by way of interim provision, for such expenditure.

(2) Payments out of such money appropriated by this Act as is specified in the Division, or unit of a Division, in Schedule 2 that is specified in column 2 of Schedule 1 opposite to an item number listed in column 1 of Schedule 1, being payments that are made to a State for a purpose specified in column 3 opposite to that item number, must be made:

(a) on such terms and conditions (if any) as are from time to time determined, in writing, for the purposes of Appropriation Acts, by the Minister specified in column 4 opposite to that item number, as being terms and conditions applicable to payments under such Acts to a State for that purpose; and

(b) in such amounts and at such times as are determined, in writing, by the Minister specified in column 5 opposite to that item number.

(3) Payments to a State out of such of the money appropriated by this Act as is specified in Division 977 in Schedule 2 must be made in accordance with any determinations of the Treasurer as to the amounts and times of payments.

(4) Nothing in this section is taken to limit, by implication, the power of the Commonwealth to make payments to a Territory, a local government body, a body corporate, an organisation or a natural person for any purposes for which money is appropriated under Appropriation Acts:

(a) on such terms and conditions; and

(b) in such amounts and at such times;

as the Commonwealth determines.