Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

HOUSING ASSISTANCE ACT 1989 - SECT 18

Where:

                     (a)  a payment was made to a State under the 1984 Act after 30 June 1989 and before the commencement of section 4; and

                     (b)  the State enters into a housing agreement with the Commonwealth during the first grant year;

the payment is to be taken to have been an advance to the State under section 17 on account of:

                     (c)  in the case of a payment made for the purpose mentioned in paragraph 6(1)(a) of the 1984 Act—the appropriate specific grant; and

                     (d)  in the case of a payment made for a purpose mentioned in paragraph 6(1)(b) of the 1984 Act—an untied grant.