11Approval of programs

11 Approval of programs

(1) The Minister may notify a State of the date before which a program of projects proposed to be undertaken by the State during the year to which this Act applies, being projects of a kind specified in the notification, is to be submitted to him for approval. (2) The Minister, after consultation with the appropriate Minister of a State, may approve programs of projects proposed to be undertaken by the State during the year to which this Act applies. (3) A State may propose to the Minister: (a) a variation of; (b) a revocation of; or (c) a revocation of, and the substitution of a new program for; a program of projects approved by the Minister under subsection (2), but the variation, revocation or revocation and substitution does not take effect for the purposes of this Part until it has been approved by the Minister. (4) Where a variation or substitution is approved under subsection (3), the program as varied or the substituted program shall be deemed to be a program of projects approved by the Minister under subsection (2).