9Allocation of grants and loans amongst States

9 Allocation of grants and loans amongst States

(1) The Minister shall, in authorizing grants during a year to which this Act applies for the purpose referred to in paragraph 6(1)(a), ensure that the amounts of those grants are allocated amongst the States on the basis of the respective needs of the States as determined by the Minister. (2) Subject to sections 10 and 11, the Minister shall, in authorizing: (a) grants, for the purposes referred to in paragraph 6(1)(b), during the year commencing on 1 July 1984; and (b) loans during that year; ensure that the aggregate amount of such grants and loans authorized to be paid to a State is not less than the amount specified in Schedule 2 opposite to the name of that State. (3) Subject to sections 10 and 11, the Minister shall, in authorizing: (a) grants, for the purposes referred to in paragraph 6(1)(b), during a year to which this Act applies (not being the year commencing on 1 July 1984); and (b) loans during a year to which this Act applies (not being the year commencing on 1 July 1984); ensure that the aggregate amount of such grants and loans authorized during each such year to which this Act applies is allocated amongst the States in accordance with the following paragraphs: (c) the amount of $146,000,000 shall be allocated amongst the States in the proportions determined by the Minister, by writing signed by the Minister, to be the appropriate proportions in respect of the year concerned for the purposes of this paragraph but so that no State is allocated in respect of that year an amount that, or amounts the sum of which, is less than $7,300,000; (d) the amount by which that aggregate amount exceeds $146,000,000 shall be allocated amongst the States in the proportions determined by the Minister, by writing signed by the Minister, to be the appropriate proportions in respect of that year for the purposes of this paragraph. (4) The appropriate proportions to be determined by the Minister under paragraphs (3)(c) and (d) for the allocation amongst the States of the amounts of the grants and loans to be made during the years to which this Act applies shall be determined, as far as practicable: (a) so as progressively to achieve the result that the amounts of the grants and loans made will, in the year commencing on 1 July 1990, be allocated amongst the States on an equal per capita basis; and (b) so that the amounts of the grants and loans made in the years to which this Act applies subsequent to the year commencing on 1 July 1990 will be allocated amongst the States on an equal per capita basis. (5) Subject to sections 10 and 11, the Minister shall, in authorizing grants and loans during a year to which this Act applies, ensure that the aggregate of the amounts of those grants and loans is not less than the sum of all amounts appropriated by this Act, or by any other Act, in respect of that year for a relevant purpose.