States Grants (No. 2)

No. 71 of 1967

An Act relating to the Grant of Financial Assistance to the States.

[Assented to 6 November 1967]

BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the States Grants Act (No. 2) 1967.

(2.) Section 1 of the States Grants Act 1967 is amended by omitting sub-section (3.).

(3.) The States Grants Act 1965–1966, as amended by the States Grants Act 1967 and by this Act, may be cited as the States Grants Act 1965–1967.

Commencement.

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

Grants to States.

3. Section 5 of the States Grants Act 1965–1966, as amended by the States Grants Act 1967, is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-section (1.) the word “sixty-six” and inserting in its stead the word “sixty-seven”; and

(b) by omitting sub-section (3.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-sections:—

“(2.) For the purpose of ascertaining the amount of the grant under this section payable to a State during the year that commenced on the first day of July, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-seven, there shall be deemed to have been payable under this section to that State during the year preceding that year a grant equal to the amount specified in the following table opposite to the name of the State:—

“(3.) For the purpose of ascertaining the amount of the grant payable to the State of Queensland during the year commencing on the first day of July, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-eight, or on the first day of July, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-nine, the amount of the grant under this section payable to that State in the year preceding the year concerned shall be deemed to be an amount equal to the sum of the amount of that last-mentioned grant and Two million dollars.”.