STATES GRANTS (TAX REIMBURSEMENT).

No. 43 of 1948.

An Act to amend the States Grants (Tax Reimbursement) Act 1946–1947.

[Assented to 13th November, 1948.]

BE it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, for the purpose of appropriating the grant originated in the House of Representatives, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the States Grants (Tax Reimbursement) Act 1948.

(2.) The States Grants (Tax Reimbursement) Act 1946–1947, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the States Grants (Tax Reimbursement) Act 1946–1948.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Aggregate grant.

3. Section six of the States Grants (Tax Reimbursement) Act 1946–1947 is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (b) the word “Forty” and inserting in its stead the word “Forty-five”;

(b) by omitting from sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (b) the words “a percentage equal to half the percentage” and inserting in their stead the words “the percentage”; and

(c) by omitting from sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (b) the word “forty-seven” and inserting in its stead the word “forty-six”.