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 a 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 a 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). (5) Where the Minister approves a program of projects for a year to which this Act applies: (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 year to which this Act applies—the Minister shall be deemed to have approved the inclusion of the stage of the project to be carried out in a succeeding year to which this Act applies 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 1979, be deemed to have approved the inclusion of the uncompleted part of the project in the approved program for the next following year to which this Act applies.