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LOCAL GOVERNMENT (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE) ACT 1995 - SECT 18A Recoverable payments

LOCAL GOVERNMENT (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE) ACT 1995 - SECT 18A

Recoverable payments

  (1)   If, apart from this subsection, the Commonwealth does not have power under this Act to pay an amount (the relevant amount ) to a State purportedly as an amount under this Act, then the Commonwealth may pay the relevant amount to the State.

Recovery

  (2)   If:

  (a)   a payment is made under subsection   ( 1) to a State; and

  (b)   the State is entitled to receive an amount under this Act;

then:

  (c)   the relevant amount; or

  (d)   such part of the relevant amount as the Minister determines;

may, if the Minister so directs, be recovered by deduction from the amount mentioned in paragraph   ( b).