STATES GRANTS (WATER RESOURCES MEASUREMENT) ACT 1970 STATES GRANTS (WATER RESOURCES MEASUREMENT) ACT 1970 - TABLE OF PROVISIONS 1. Short title see Note 1] 2. Commencement [see Note 1] 3. Interpretation 4. Grants in respect of expenditure in connexion with measurement of discharge of rivers 5. Grants in respect of expenditure on underground water investigation 6. Information to be verified 7. Approval of expenditure 8. Information to be furnished by States 9. Advances 10. Overpayments 11. Appropriation SECOND SCHEDULE - Investigation and measurement of underground water resources STATES GRANTS (WATER RESOURCES MEASUREMENT) ACT 1970 - LONG TITLE An Act to grant Financial Assistance to the States in connexion with the Measurement and Investigation of their Water Resources STATES GRANTS (WATER RESOURCES MEASUREMENT) ACT 1970 - SECT 1 Short title see Note 1] This Act may be cited as the States Grants (Water Resources Measurement) Act 1970. STATES GRANTS (WATER RESOURCES MEASUREMENT) ACT 1970 - SECT 2 Commencement [see Note 1] This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent. STATES GRANTS (WATER RESOURCES MEASUREMENT) ACT 1970 - SECT 3 Interpretation (1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears: "approved expenditure" means expenditure in connexion with the measurement of discharge of rivers, or the investigation and measurement of underground water resources, being expenditure approved by the Minister under section 7 of this Act. "discharge", in relation to a river in a State, means the volume of water that flows past a point or place in the course of the river during an interval of time. "measurement" includes the recording, arrangement, analysis or publication of information obtained by measurement. "river" means a surface river and includes any surface watercourse. "Schedule" means Schedule to this Act. (2) For the purposes of this Act, each of the following years is a year to which this Act applies: (a) the year ending on the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and seventy-one; and (b) each of the next two succeeding years. STATES GRANTS (WATER RESOURCES MEASUREMENT) ACT 1970 - SECT 4 Grants in respect of expenditure in connexion with measurement of discharge of rivers Where: (a) a State furnishes to the Treasurer such information as he requires with respect to the amount of approved expenditure incurred by the State during a year to which this Act applies in connexion with the measurement of the discharge of the rivers of the State; and (b) the amount of expenditure that the Treasurer is satisfied has been so incurred by the State exceeds the amount specified opposite to the name of that State in the second column of the First Schedule, there is payable to the State in respect of that year for the purpose of financial assistance: (c) the amount specified opposite to the name of that State in the third, fourth or fifth column of that Schedule, whichever is applicable to that year; (d) the amount of that excess; or (e) an amount equal to one-half of the amount of that expenditure, whichever is the least. STATES GRANTS (WATER RESOURCES MEASUREMENT) ACT 1970 - SECT 5 Grants in respect of expenditure on underground water investigation Where: (a) a State furnishes to the Treasurer such information as he requires with respect to the amount of approved expenditure incurred by the State during a year to which this Act applies in connexion with the investigation and measurement of the underground water resources of the State; and (b) the amount of expenditure that the Treasurer is satisfied has been so incurred by that State exceeds the amount specified opposite to the name of that State in the second column of the Second Schedule, there is payable to the State in respect of that year for the purpose of financial assistance: (c) the amount specified opposite to the name of that State in the third, fourth or fifth column of that Schedule, whichever is applicable to that year; (d) the amount of that excess; or (e) an amount equal to one-half of the amount of that expenditure,whichever is the least. STATES GRANTS (WATER RESOURCES MEASUREMENT) ACT 1970 - SECT 6 Information to be verified Information furnished by a State as mentioned in paragraph (a) of each of the last two preceding sections shall not be accepted for the purposes of this Act unless it is certified to be correct by the Auditor-General of the State. STATES GRANTS (WATER RESOURCES MEASUREMENT) ACT 1970 - SECT 7 Approval of expenditure For the purposes of this Act, a State may, before or during a year to which this Act applies, request the Minister to approve, in relation to that year, expenditure in connexion with: (a) the measurement of the discharge of the rivers in the State; or (b) the investigation and measurement of the underground water resources of the State, that the State has incurred or proposes to incur during that year, and the Minister may approve any such expenditure in relation to that year. STATES GRANTS (WATER RESOURCES MEASUREMENT) ACT 1970 - SECT 8 Information to be furnished by States (1) A State is not entitled to financial assistance under this Act in respect of a year to which this Act applies unless the State has duly furnished to the Minister a report in relation to the first six months of that year and a report in relation to the whole of that year, to the satisfaction of the Minister, setting out particulars of the works carried out, the facilities provided, and the things done, by the State during that period in connexion with: (a) the measurement of the discharge of the rivers in the State; and (b) the investigation and measurement of underground water resources of the State. (2) A report referred to in the last preceding subsection is not duly furnished for the purposes of this Act unless it is received by the Minister: (a) not later than: (i) in the case of the report in relation to the first six months of a year--the last day of February in that year; or (ii) in the case of the report in relation to the whole of a year--the last day of August next succeeding the end of that year; or (b) within such further time as the Minister, before or after the relevant date specified in the last preceding paragraph, allows. STATES GRANTS (WATER RESOURCES MEASUREMENT) ACT 1970 - SECT 9 Advances The Treasurer may, at such times as he thinks fit, make advances of such amounts as he thinks fit to a State on account of an amount that may become payable under this Act to the State. STATES GRANTS (WATER RESOURCES MEASUREMENT) ACT 1970 - SECT 10 Overpayments Payment to a State under this Act of any amount (including an advance made under the last preceding section) 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 any such advances) paid to the State under this Act exceeds the total of the amounts that have become payable to the State under sections 4 and 5 of this Act. STATES GRANTS (WATER RESOURCES MEASUREMENT) ACT 1970 - SECT 11 Appropriation Amounts payable to a State under this Act are payable out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, which is appropriated accordingly. STATES GRANTS (WATER RESOURCES MEASUREMENT) ACT 1970The Schedules First Schedule--Measurement of discharge of rivers Section 4 First Column SecondColumn ThirdColumn FourthColumn FifthColumn Name of State Base amount of expenditure Maximum amount of grant for year ending -- 30 June 1971 30 June 1972 30 June 1973 $ $ $ $ New South Wales 299,400 308,400 321,500 334,500 Victoria 199,000 180,500 189,700 198,800 Queensland 180,000 331,700 326,200 334,100 South Australia 10,500 52,000 23,300 25,900 Western Australia 176,000 249,700 296,200 318,400 Tasmania 89,500 47,400 47,400 47,400 STATES GRANTS (WATER RESOURCES MEASUREMENT) ACT 1970 - SECOND SCHEDULE - Investigation and measurement of underground water resources Section 5 First Column SecondColumn ThirdColumn FourthColumn FifthColumn Name of State Base amount of expenditure Maximum amount of grant for year ending -- 30 June 1971 30 June 1972 30 June 1973 $ $ $ $ New South Wales 136,000 554,500 557,900 565,000 Victoria 379,000 210,400 231,900 254,500 Queensland 180,000 206,600 217,500 228,400 South Australia 82,000 134,900 134,900 134,900 Western Australia 260,000 321,900 374,100 391,500 Tasmania 15,000 23,100 23,100 23,100 STATES GRANTS (WATER RESOURCES MEASUREMENT) ACT 1970 - NOTES Compilation Information States Grants (Water Resources Measurement) Act 1970 Act No. 108 of 1970 STATES GRANTS (WATER RESOURCES MEASUREMENT) ACT 1970 - NOTES STATES GRANTS (WATER RESOURCES MEASUREMENT) ACT 1970Notes to the States Grants (Water Resources Measurement) Act 1970 Note 1 The States Grants (Water Resources Measurement) Act 1970 as shown in this compilation comprises Act No. 108, 1970 amended as indicated in the Tables below. Table of Acts Act Number and year Date of Assent Date of commencement Application, saving or transitional provisions States Grants (Water Resources Measurement) Act 1970 108, 1970 11 Nov 1970 11 Nov 1970