6Grants for rental housing and other purposes

6 Grants for rental housing and other purposes

(1) Subject to this Act, the Minister may, during a year to which this Act applies, if an agreement has been entered into between the Commonwealth and a State in pursuance of this Act, authorize the payment to the State, by way of financial assistance, of such amounts as he determines to be appropriate: (a) for expenditure by the State in respect of that year for any purpose relating to the provision of rental housing to any person included in a class of persons that is specified by the Minister for the purposes of the payment, being a class of persons that is specified in the agreement to be a class of persons in need of assistance or is declared by the Minister, in pursuance of the agreement, to be such a class; or (b) for expenditure by the State in respect of that year for any purpose related to housing that the State determines to be appropriate, being a purpose in respect of which moneys paid under this section are permitted to be expended under the agreement. (2) Grants shall be made on such terms and conditions as are specified in the agreement in relation to the grants.