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 year to which this Act applies 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 such a program. (2) Where: (a) a State, in accordance with a request made to it under subsection (1), furnishes to the Minister a program of projects of works referred to in a notification in force under paragraph 6(1)(b); and (b) the program complies with any requirements set out in a notification in force under paragraph 6(1)(c) or (d) that are applicable in relation to it; the Minister may: (c) approve the program; or (d) 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) Without limiting the power of the Minister to modify a program under paragraph (2)(d), the Minister may modify a program furnished by a State by omitting a project from that program: (a) if he is of the opinion that consultation with the State should be held concerning the project before the project is included in an approved program; or (b) if he is of the opinion that preliminary investigations in respect of the project should be carried out before it is included in an approved program. (5) For the purposes of this Part, the Minister may, whether or not a notification has been given to a State in accordance with paragraph 6(1)(b), approve, in consultation with the appropriate Minister of the State, programs of projects proposed to be undertaken by the State during a year to which this Act applies. (6) The Minister may approve: (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 him under subsection (2) or (5). (7) 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 partlyin 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.