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Payment Schedule

4(27) Commonwealth Financial Assistance and State funding contributions for each Grant Year will be paid in equal instalments, fortnightly in advance or as otherwise agreed between the Minister and a State Minister.

4(28) Payment of Financial Assistance, other than ARHP funding, to a State in each Grant Year will be made only when a Bilateral Agreement is in force with that State and where annual outputs and targets have been agreed where these are required under subclause 6(1)(e). Payments delayed pending execution of a Bilateral Agreement will be paid upon execution of the Bilateral Agreement.

4(29) In the first Grant Year, notwithstanding subclauses 4(28) and 4(31), the Minister agrees to commence Financial Assistance, or a proportion of such funding, to a State for a period of up to four months, irrespective of whether a Bilateral Agreement has yet to be agreed.

4(30) Where Commonwealth Financial Assistance has been withheld under subclauses 8(1), 8(2) or 8(4), the remaining Commonwealth payments after the sanction has been removed will be adjusted so as to enable expenditure of the remainder of the full Grant Year's funding.

4(31) ARHP funds in each of Grant Years one to five will only be paid following submission of an annual Indigenous Housing plan for ARHP and agreement on the contents of that annual plan between the Minister and the State Minister.