36Money deemed to have been expended on national highway projects

#### 36 Money deemed to have been expended on national highway projects (1) Subject to subsection (2), a State may, for the purposes of this Act, treat money expended by the State, in a financial year, for the purpose of meeting administrative costs incurred directly in connection with the construction or maintenance of national highways in the State, not being administrative costs incurred in respect of particular works involved in the carrying out of any project or program approved under subsection 26(3), as having been expended in that year by the State on such a project or program. (2) Money treated as having been expended on a project or program in a year by virtue of subsection (1): (a) shall not include any money treated, by virtue of that subsection, as having been expended on any other project or program; and (b) shall not exceed, in the aggregate, 4% of the money otherwise expended on that project or program since its commencement.