TASMANIA GRANT (GORDON RIVER ROAD).

No. 5 of 1964.

An Act to grant Financial Assistance to the State of Tasmania in connexion with the construction of a Road in the Gordon River Area of that State.

[Assented to 23rd April, 1964.]

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.

1.  This Act may be cited as the Tasmania Grant (Gordon River Road) Act 1964.

Commencement.

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

Definitions.

3.  In this Act—

“the Gordon River road” means a road of a length of approximately fifty miles to be constructed in the State from Kallista near Maydena to the junction of the Gordon and Serpentine Rivers;

“the prescribed period” means the period of four years that commenced on the first day of July, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-three;

“the State” means the State of Tasmania.

Grant of financial assistance.

4.—(1.)  Subject to this Act, there are payable to the State, by way of financial assistance, amounts equal to the amounts expended by the State during the prescribed period on the construction of the Gordon River road.

(2.)  The amounts payable to the State under this Act shall not exceed, in the aggregate, Two million five hundred thousand pounds.

Standards of design and construction.

5.  The Treasurer may, for the purposes of this Act, approve standards of design or construction for the Gordon River road and if, after standards so approved have been notified to the State, expenditure is incurred by the State on the construction of that road otherwise than in accordance with those standards, the Treasurer may direct that payments under this Act shall not be made in relation to that expenditure.

Information to be furnished by State.

6.—(1.)  The Treasurer may request the State to furnish to him, not later than a specified date before the commencement of a financial year within the prescribed period, such information as he specifies in relation to the expenditure proposed to be incurred by the State during that financial year on the construction of the Gordon River road and, if the Treasurer so requests, the State is not entitled to financial assistance under this Act in relation to expenditure incurred by the State during that financial year unless the State has duly furnished that information.

(2.)  The State is not entitled to financial assistance under this Act in relation to any particular expenditure by the State unless the State has furnished to the Treasurer—

(a) a statement in respect of that expenditure in a form approved by the Treasurer, accompanied by a certificate of the Auditor-General of the State certifying that the expenditure shown in the statement was incurred on the construction of the Gordon River road; and

(b) such further information, if any, as the Treasurer requires in respect of that expenditure.

Certain expenditure not to be taken into account for purposes of Commonwealth Aid roads Act.

7.  Amounts expended by the State in relation to which amounts have been paid, or are payable, to the State under this Act shall not be taken into account for the purposes of section six of the Commonwealth Aid Roads Act 1959.

Advances.

8.  The Treasurer may, at such times as he thinks fit, make advances of such amounts as he thinks fit to the State on account of an amount that may become payable under this Act to the State.

Overpayments.

9.  Payment to the State under this Act of any amount (including an advance) is subject to the condition that the State will repay to the Commonwealth, on demand by the Treasurer, the amount by which, at the time of the demand, the total of the amounts (including advances) paid to the State under this Act exceeds the total of the amounts that have become payable to the State under section four of this Act.

Appropriation.

10.   Amounts payable to the State under this Act are payable out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, which is appropriated accordingly.