4Payments from the Fund for certain programs

4 Payments from the Fund for certain programs

4 Payments from the Fund for certain programs

(1) There is to be paid out of the Fund such amounts as the Minister for Climate Change and the Environment directs for payment into the Consolidated Fund to offset the amounts paid from the Consolidated Fund for the following expenditure—

(a)–(c) (Repealed)

(d) Expenditure for the purpose of implementing forestry restructure and assistance schemes and programs in the Brigalow and Nandewar and adjacent areas, including business exit assistance, timber worker assistance and industry development assistance, shown in the Budget Papers or declared in writing by the Treasurer as expenditure to be recouped from the Fund. That expenditure is referred to in this Act as Brigalow and Nandewar areas expenditure.

(e) (Repealed)

(1A) (Repealed)

(2) The Treasurer is to certify to the Minister from time to time the amounts paid from the Consolidated Fund for the expenditure referred to in this section.

(3), (4) (Repealed)

(5) Money is not to be paid from the Fund under this Act in respect of Brigalow and Nandewar areas expenditure unless the Minister for Climate Change and the Environment and the Minister for Mineral and Forest Resources jointly certify that the expenditure has been incurred for the purposes of implementing a scheme or program designed to assist persons affected by Government forest conservation initiatives in the Brigalow or Nandewar areas.

(6) (Repealed)

s 4: Am 1997 No 64, Sch 4.1; 1998 No 82, Sch 2.1 [5]; 2005 No 56, Sch 12.3 [1]–[3]; 2010 No 22, Sch 10.2 [1]–[4]; 2018 No 25, Sch 6.