36Programs submitted before commencement of Act

##### 36 Programs submitted before commencement of Act (1) Where a State has, before the commencement of this Act, submitted to the Minister: (a) a program of projects to be carried out by the State during the year that commenced on 1 July 1977, being projects for the carrying out of road works; or (b) a program of proposed allocations to be made in the year that commenced on 1 July 1977 for the carrying out of road works, that program shall be deemed, after the commencement of this Act, to have been submitted in accordance with section 7, 11 or 12, as the case requires. (2) Where, before the commencement of this Act, the Minister has approved a program referred to in subsection (1), that approval shall be deemed, after the commencement of this Act, to have been given under section 7, 11 or 12, as the case requires.