Local Government Grants Act 1975
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LOCAL GOVERNMENT GRANTS ACT 1975
No. 114 of 1975
An Act to grant Financial Assistance in relation to Local Governing Bodies.
BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, the Senate and the House of Representatives of Australia, as follows:—
Short title.
- This Act may be cited as the Local Government Grants Act 1975.
Commencement.
- This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
Definition.
- In this Act, “local governing body” means a local governing body established by or under a law of a State.
Grants for local governing bodies.
- (1) In relation to each local governing body specified in the Schedule, there is payable in the financial year that commenced on 1 July 1975 to the State in which the local governing body is situated, for the purpose of financial assistance, the amount specified opposite to the name of that body in the Schedule.
(2) Payments to a State under sub-section (1) shall be made at such times and in such amounts as the Treasurer approves.
(3) The financial assistance to a State constituted by a payment of an amount under sub-section (1) in relation to a local governing body situated in that State is granted on condition that the State will, without undue delay and before 1 July 1976, make an unconditional payment of that amount to that local governing body and, in making the payment, will describe the amount as a payment to that body in respect of the financial year that commenced on 1 July 1975 out of moneys paid to the State by Australia for that purpose.
Variation of the Schedule.
- (1) Payment of an amount to a State under this Act is subject to the condition that, if a local governing body specified in respect of that State in the Schedule has ceased to exist before the commencement of this Act or ceases to exist after the commencement of this Act but before the whole of the amount specified in the Schedule opposite to the name of that body has been paid by the State to that body in pursuance of this Act, the appropriate State Minister shall, forthwith after the commencement of this Act or after the body ceases to exist, notify the Minister that the body has ceased to exist and furnish to the Minister particulars of any amount paid to the State under this Act in relation to the body that was not paid to the body in pursuance of this Act before it ceased to exist.
(2) Where the appropriate State Minister notifies the Minister that a local governing body has ceased to exist, the Minister shall then direct, in writing, that this Act shall have effect as if the Schedule were varied—