17Variations of Schedule 5

17 Variations of Schedule 5

(1) Subject to subsection (2), the Minister may, by determination in writing, vary during the program year 1989 or 1990 some or all of the amounts set out in columns 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 of Part 1 or Part 2 of Schedule 5 respectively. (1A) Subject to subsection (2), the Minister may, by determination in writing, vary during the program year 1991 or a later program year some or all of the amounts set out, opposite the name of a State, in columns 2, 3 and 4 of the part of Schedule 5 that relates to the year. (2) The Minister shall not vary amounts set out opposite to the name of a State in columns of the part of Schedule 5 that relates to a year in a way that, after the variation, the total of those amounts is greater or less than the total of those amounts before the variation. (3) As soon as practicable after making a determination under this section, the Minister shall:

(a) send a copy of the determination to the relevant State Minister; and

(b) cause a copy of the determination to be laid before each House of the Parliament.