15Approval of allocations for local roads

15 Approval of allocations for local roads

(1) The Minister may notify a State of the date before which a program of allocations for local roads in respect of the year to which this Act applies, being allocations for a purpose 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 a program of allocations for local roads in respect of the State for 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 allocations for local roads 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) The giving of an approval by the Minister under subsection (2) or (3) is subject to subsection 16(4). (5) 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 allocations for local roads approved by the Minister under subsection (2).