Commonwealth Consolidated ActsSection 2A
THIS AGREEMENT is made the FOURTH day of AUGUST One thousand
nine hundred and seventy-one between THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA (in this
agreement called
"the Commonwealth") of the one part and THE STATE OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA (in
this
agreement called "the State") of the other part and is supplemental to the
agreement made the tenth day of May, 1965 between the Commonwealth and the
State and approved by the Parliament of the Commonwealth by the Western
Australia (South-West Region Water Supplies) Agreement Act 1965 (in this
agreement called "the Principal Agreement") in relation to the carrying out of
works for the development of water supplies in the South-West region of the
State.
WHEREAS
(a) the Principal Agreement made provision for the
grant by the Commonwealth to the State for the carrying out of the said works
of financial assistance consisting of an amount which is equivalent to
one-half of the cost of the works but does not exceed ten million five hundred
thousand dollars ($10,500,000) and which is repayable by the State as provided
in the Principal Agreement;
(b) the State has sought an increase in the total
amount of the financial assistance to be provided by the Commonwealth for the
carrying out of the works;
(c) the Parliament of the Commonwealth will
accordingly be asked to approve an increase of one million five hundred
thousand dollars ($1,500,000) in the total amount of the financial assistance
that may be provided by the Commonwealth under the Principal Agreement:
NOW
IT IS HEREBY AGREED as follows:
1. This agreement will have no force or
effect and shall not be binding on either party until it has been approved by
the Parliament of the Commonwealth.
2. Upon the coming into force of this
agreement, the Principal Agreement shall be amended by deleting from
sub-clause (2) of clause 4 the words and figures "Five million two
hundred and fifty thousand pounds (£5,250,000)" and inserting in their
place the words and figures "Twelve million dollars ($12,000,000)".
3.
Subject to clause 2 of this agreement, the Principal Agreement is
confirmed.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF this agreement has been executed as at the day
and year first above written.
SIGNED on behalf of THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA by the Right Honourable WILLIAM McMAHON, the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth, in the presence of |
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D. J. MUNRO |
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SIGNED on behalf of THE STATE OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA by the Honourable JOHN TREZISE TONKIN, the Premier of the State, in the presence of |
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R. J. SEDDON |