States Grants (General Purposes) Amendment Act (No. 2) 1997

 

No. 193, 1997

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

States Grants (General Purposes) Amendment Act (No. 2) 1997

 

No. 193, 1997

 

 

 

 

An Act to amend the States Grants (General Purposes) Act 1994

 

 

Contents

1 Short title..................................1

2 Commencement..............................1

3 Schedule(s).................................2

Schedule 1—Amendment of the States Grants (General Purposes) Act 1994              3

States Grants (General Purposes) Amendment Act (No. 2) 1997

No. 193, 1997

 

 

 

An Act to amend the States Grants (General Purposes) Act 1994

[Assented to 8 December 1997]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

  This Act may be cited as the States Grants (General Purposes) Amendment Act (No. 2) 1997.

  This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

  Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.


 

1  Subclause 5(1) of Schedule 4 (definition of AS)

Omit “means the number set out opposite the name of the State in the following table”, substitute:

means:

 (a) if paragraph (b) does not apply—the number set out opposite the name of the State in the table at the end of this definition; or

 (b) if the regulations prescribe, in respect of each State, a number as the alcohol share for that State for the purposes of this definition—the number so prescribed in respect of the State.

2  Subclause 5(1) of Schedule 4 (definition of TS)

Repeal the definition, substitute:

TS (tobacco share) means:

 (a) if paragraph (b) does not apply—the number set out opposite the name of the State in the table at the end of this definition; or

 (b) if the regulations prescribe, in respect of each State, a number as the tobacco share for that State for the purposes of this definition—the number so prescribed in respect of the State.

 

Tobacco Share

 

State

Tobacco Share

New South Wales

0.32492

Victoria

0.21803

Queensland

0.19065

Western Australia

0.11100

South Australia

0.08988

Tasmania

0.03226

Australian Capital Territory

0.01456

Northern Territory

0.01870

3  Subclause 5(1) of Schedule 4 (definition of PS)

Omit “means the number set out opposite the name of the State in the following table”, substitute:

means:

 (a) if paragraph (b) does not apply—the number set out opposite the name of the State in the table at the end of this definition; or

 (b) if the regulations prescribe, in respect of each State, a number as the petroleum share for that State for the purposes of this definition—the number so prescribed in respect of the State.

 

 

[Minister's second reading speech made in the

House of Representatives on 23 October 1997

Senate on 30 October 1997]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(195/97)