Section 3CSection 3C

Section 3C

AN AGREEMENT made the day of One thousand nine hundred and seventy- between—

THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA (in this agreement called “the Commonwealth”) of the one part, and THE STATE OF QUEENSLAND (in this agreement called “the State”) of the other part.

WHEREAS—

(a) by an agreement between the Commonwealth and the State made the first day of December 1962 (in this agreement called “the Agreement”) provision was made for the Commonwealth to grant financial assistance to the State for the purpose of the further development of land in the Fitzroy River Basin;

(b) by further agreements between the Commonwealth and the State made the second day of December 1965 and the twenty-seventh day of April 1967 (called respectively “the Amending Agreement” and “the Second Amending Agreement” and referred to in this agreement as “the Amending Agreements”) the plan of development provided for by the Agreement was amended, the operation of the Agreement was extended to the development of additional land and for an additional period of time and the terms and conditions on which the assistance was provided under the Agreement were varied;

(c) the Agreement and the Amending Agreements have been approved and the payment of financial assistance to the State on the terms and conditions provided thereby has been authorized by the Parliament of the Commonwealth by the Brigalow Lands Agreement Act 1962 as amended by the Brigalow Lands Agreement Act 1965 and the Brigalow Lands Agreement Act 1967;

(d) the Agreement and the Amending Agreements have been approved and their implementation provided for by the Parliament of the State by “The Brigalow and Other Lands Development Acts, 1962 to 1967”;

(e) it is proposed that, subject to the approval of the Parliament of the Commonwealth and of the State, the terms and conditions on which financial assistance is provided under the Agreement as amended by the Amending Agreements be further varied as set out in this agreement:

NOW IT IS HEREBY AGREED as follows:

1. This agreement shall have no force or effect and shall not be binding on either party unless the execution of it on behalf of the parties shall have been authorized, or having been executed on behalf of the parties, that execution is approved, by the Parliament of the Commonwealth and the Parliament of the State.

2. When this agreement comes into force, the Agreement as amended by the Amending Agreements (in this agreement called “the Principal Agreement”) shall be construed and take effect as further amended by this agreement, which shall be known as the Third Amending Agreement.

3. Clause 7 of the Principal Agreement, which was amended by clause 4 of the Second Amending Agreement, is further amended by inserting after sub-clause (2) the following sub-clause—