sec.228Allocating Commonwealth funding

### sec.228 Allocating Commonwealth funding The grants commission is a body that is created under this Act to perform the responsibilities of a Local Government Grants Commission under the Local Government (Financial Assistance) Act . The grants commission and the Minister must comply with the Local Government (Financial Assistance) Act . The public hearings that the grants commission is required to hold under the Local Government (Financial Assistance) Act must be held in the way set out in part 1 . If— the grants commission requires a local governing body to provide information to help the grants commission make a decision about funding under the Local Government (Financial Assistance) Act ; and the local governing body does not make a submission by the date reasonably specified by the grants commission; the grants commission can recommend that no funding be allocated to the local governing body. A local governing body is a local governing body within the meaning of the Local Government (Financial Assistance) Act . The Minister must not distribute to a local government an amount equal to notional GST if the local government has not paid the notional GST. Notional GST is an amount that a local government may pay under the GST and Related Matters Act 2000 , section 5 . The Minister must table the following in the Legislative Assembly— the grants commission’s recommendations about the allocation of funding; a breakdown of how the funding was allocated between local governments. (sec.228-ssec.1) The grants commission is a body that is created under this Act to perform the responsibilities of a Local Government Grants Commission under the Local Government (Financial Assistance) Act . (sec.228-ssec.2) The grants commission and the Minister must comply with the Local Government (Financial Assistance) Act . (sec.228-ssec.3) The public hearings that the grants commission is required to hold under the Local Government (Financial Assistance) Act must be held in the way set out in part 1 . (sec.228-ssec.4) If— the grants commission requires a local governing body to provide information to help the grants commission make a decision about funding under the Local Government (Financial Assistance) Act ; and the local governing body does not make a submission by the date reasonably specified by the grants commission; the grants commission can recommend that no funding be allocated to the local governing body. (sec.228-ssec.5) A local governing body is a local governing body within the meaning of the Local Government (Financial Assistance) Act . (sec.228-ssec.6) The Minister must not distribute to a local government an amount equal to notional GST if the local government has not paid the notional GST. (sec.228-ssec.7) Notional GST is an amount that a local government may pay under the GST and Related Matters Act 2000 , section 5 . (sec.228-ssec.8) The Minister must table the following in the Legislative Assembly— the grants commission’s recommendations about the allocation of funding; a breakdown of how the funding was allocated between local governments. - (a) the grants commission requires a local governing body to provide information to help the grants commission make a decision about funding under the Local Government (Financial Assistance) Act ; and - (b) the local governing body does not make a submission by the date reasonably specified by the grants commission; - (a) the grants commission’s recommendations about the allocation of funding; - (b) a breakdown of how the funding was allocated between local governments.