States Grants (Petroleum Products) Act 1973

No. 112 of 1973

AN ACT

To amend the States Grants (Petroleum Products) Act 1965–1969.

[Assented to 16 October 1973]

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, the Senate and the House of Representatives of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the States Grants (Petroleum Products) Act 1973.

(2) The States Grants (Petroleum Products) Act 1965–1969, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the States Grants (Petroleum Products) Act 1965–1973.

Commencement.

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

Repeal.

3. Section 6 of the States Grants (Petroleum Products) Act 1965–1969 is repealed.

4. After section 7 of the States Grants (Petroleum Products) Act 1965–1969 the following section is inserted:—

Disallowance of amendment of schedule to scheme.

“7a. (1) In this section, ‘amendment’, in relation to the schedule to the scheme in relation to a State, includes the substitution of another schedule for that schedule.

“(2) The provisions of sections 48 and 49 of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901–1973 (other than paragraphs (a) and (b) of sub-section (1), sub-section (2) and sub-section (6) of the first-mentioned section) apply, by force of this section, to amendments of the schedules to the schemes in relation to the States in like manner as those provisions apply in relation to regulations.

“(3) Where an amendment of the schedule to the scheme in relation to a State is disallowed, or is to be deemed to be disallowed, under a provision of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901–1973 as applied by sub-section (2), the schedule has effect as if the amendment bad been revoked with effect from and including the date of the disallowance.”.