4Payments to or for the States and Territories

4 Payments to or for the States and Territories

(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.

State includes the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory.

(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 an item in Schedule 1, being payments that are made to a State for a purpose specified in column 3 of that item, must be made:

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

(b) in the amounts and at the times that are determined, in writing, by the Minister specified in column 5 of that item.

(3) Payments to or for 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 the amounts and at the times determined by the Treasurer.

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

(a) on the terms and conditions; and

(b) in the amounts and at the times;

that the Commonwealth determines.