7Approval of programs

#### 7 Approval of programs (1) The Minister may request a State to submit a program of projects proposed to be undertaken by the State during a relevant year in accordance with any notification or notifications in force under section 6 and may, in the request, specify: (a) the form in accordance with which, and the date before which, the program of projects is to be furnished to him for the purposes of this section; (b) the particulars of projects to be specified in the program; and (c) classes of projects in respect of which particulars of the projects are to be approved by him before the projects are included in the program. (2) Where a State, in accordance with a request made to it under subsection (1), submits to the Minister a program of projects proposed to be undertaken by the State during a relevant year, the Minister may: (a) approve the program; or (b) modify the program to the extent he thinks desirable and approve the program as so modified. (3) A reference in subsection (2) to the modification of a program includes references to the omission of a project from a program and the addition of a project to a program. (4) The Minister shall not approve, under subsection (2), a program of projects submitted to him by a State unless he is satisfied that the program complies with the requirements set out in any notification given to the State under paragraph 6(1)(b), (c) or (d) that are applicable in relation to it. (5) 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. (6) The Minister may, after consultation with the appropriate Minister of a State, vary a program of projects approved by him under subsection (2) by omitting a project or a part of a project from the program and, if he does so, he shall notify the appropriate Minister of the State accordingly. (7) Where a variation or substitution is approved under subsection (5) or a variation is made under subsection (6), the program as varied or the substituted program shall be deemed to be a program of projects approved by the Minister under subsection (2). (8) Where the Minister approves a program of projects for a relevant year: (a) if the program includes a project that is a stage of a larger project and the Minister has approved the carrying out of the larger project partly in that year and partly in a succeeding relevant year—the Minister shall be deemed to have approved the inclusion of the stage of the project to be carried out in the succeeding year in the program of projects to be carried out in that succeeding year; and (b) if the program includes a project that is to be carried out in that year but the project is not completed in that year—the Minister shall, unless the year is the year commencing on 1 July 1984, be deemed to have approved the inclusion of the uncompleted part of the project in the program of projects for the next following year.