1Queensland Grant (Maraboon Dam) Act 1968

Queensland Grant (Maraboon Dam)

No. 35 of 1968

An Act to grant Financial Assistance to the State of Queensland in connexion with the construction of a Dam on the Nogoa River near Emerald in that State.

[Assented to 13 June 1968]

BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title.

1. This Act may be cited as the Queensland Grant (Maraboon Dam) Act 1968.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Interpretation.

3.—(1.) In this Act, “the State” means the State of Queensland.

(2.) A reference in this Act to the construction of the Maraboon Dam shall be read as a reference to the carrying out of the works and the doing of the other things referred to in the Schedule to this Act.

Grant of financial assistance.

4.—(1.) Subject to this Act, there are payable to the State, by way of financial assistance amounts equal to the amounts expended by the State on or after the twenty-first day of December, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-seven, on the construction of the Maraboon Dam.

(2.) The amounts payable to the State under this Act shall not exceed, in the aggregate, Twenty million dollars.

Power of Minister to vary description of work.

5. Where the State so requests, the Minister may from time to time, by instrument in writing, direct that this Act shall have effect in relation to a work referred to in the Schedule to this Act as if the description in that Schedule of that work were varied in such manner as is specified in the instrument.

State to carry out irrigation and other works.

6. The State is not entitled to financial assistance under this Act unless the Minister is satisfied that reasonable progress has been made by the State in carrying out irrigation and other works for the purpose of using the water made available by the construction of the dam referred to in the Schedule to this Act.

Provision relating to carrying out of works.

7. The State is not entitled to financial assistance under this Act in relation to expenditure by the State, whether incurred before or after the commencement of this Act, in carrying out a particular work—

(a) where the Minister has requested the State to furnish information in relation to the design or construction of the work—unless the State has duly furnished that information;