11Re‑allocation or retention of specific housing grants

11 Re‑allocation or retention of specific housing grants

(1) Where: (a) the Minister has, under subsection 6(1), authorized, in respect of a year to which this Act applies, the making of grants to a State for the purpose referred to in paragraph 6(1)(a); and (b) after consulting the State Minister of that State, the Minister is satisfied, having regard to the amounts that the State has been, or will be, able to expend during that year for that purpose, that it would not be appropriate for the total amount of the grants so authorized to be paid to the State; the Minister may: (c) vary the authorization in relation to that State by reducing the total amount so authorized to be paid to that State; and (d) authorize grants for the purpose referred to in paragraph 6(1)(a), of such amounts as the Minister determines to be appropriate, to such of the States other than that State as the Minister determines to be appropriate, being grants that do not in the aggregate exceed the amount by which the total amount authorized to be paid to that State has been reduced as mentioned in paragraph (c). (1A) Where: (a) the Minister has, under subsection 6(1), authorised the making of a grant or grants to a State for the purpose of particular specific housing assistance referred to in paragraph 6(1)(a); and (b) the Minister is satisfied, in respect of the grant or any of the grants, that the State has contravened, or has acted in a manner that is inconsistent with, either or both of the following: (i) a provision of an agreement entered into between the Commonwealth and the State pursuant to this Act, being a provision relating to the grant; (ii) a guideline made under the agreement and agreed between the Minister and the State Minister, being a guideline relating to the grant; the Minister: (c) may revoke the authorisation or any of the authorisations; (d) may vary the authorisation or any of the authorisations by reducing the amount authorised; (e) may: (i) revoke the authorisation or any of the authorisations; and (ii) declare the amount authorised before the authorisation was revoked to be an amount available for re‑allocation; or (f) may: (i) vary the authorisation or any of the authorisations by reducing the amount authorised; and (ii) declare the amount by which the amount authorised has been reduced to be an amount available for re‑allocation. (1B) Where the Minister: (a) revokes or reduces an authorisation in relation to a State; and (b) declares an amount to be an amount available for re‑allocation; the Minister may authorise grants for the purpose referred to in paragraph 6(1)(a), of such amounts as the Minister determines to be appropriate, to such of the States other than that State as the Minister determines to be appropriate, being grants that do not in the aggregate exceed that amount. (2) In this section, the State Minister, in relation to a State with which the Commonwealth has entered into an agreement pursuant to this Act, has the same meaning as that expression has in that agreement.