Commonwealth Numbered Acts

LOCAL GOVERNMENT (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE) AMENDMENT ACT 1991 No. 78, 1991 - SECT 9

9. Section 7 of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section is
substituted: State entitlements for local government purposes

"7. (1) Subject to this section and to section 10, each State is entitled to
the payment, in respect of the year commencing on 1 July 1991 and each
subsequent year, by way of financial assistance for local government purposes,
of an amount calculated using the formula:
Base figure X Proportion of total Australian population where: `Base figure'
means the base figure for that year; `Proportion of total Australian
population' means the State's proportion of the total Australian population
for that year.

"(2) A reference in this section to a State's proportion of the total
Australian population for a year is a reference to:

   (a)  the proportion, calculated to 6 decimal places, obtained using the
        formula:
Population of the State
Population of Australia where: `Population of the State' means the population
of the State on 31 December in the preceding year as estimated by the
Statistician; `Population of Australia' means the total population of all
States on 31 December in the preceding year as estimated by the Statistician;
or

   (b)  if the proportion calculated under paragraph (a) would, if it were
        calculated to 7 decimal places, end in a number greater than 4 - that
        proportion increased by 0.000001.

"(3) The estimate by the Statistician for the purposes of this section of the
population of a State on 31 December in a year must be made after that date
and before 10 June next following that date.

"(4) The Statistician, in making an estimate under this section of the
population of a State, must:

   (a)  where practicable, consult the official statistician of the State; and

   (b)  have regard to the latest statistics in relation to the population
        available to the Statistician on the day on which the estimate is
        made.

"(5) The Treasurer must, as soon as practicable after the Statistician
estimates the population of each State for the purposes of this section, cause
to be given to the Treasurer of each State a written notice specifying each
State's proportion of the total Australian population.

"(6) The Treasurer must cause a copy of a notice covered by subsection (5) to
be given to the Minister.

"(7) A State is not entitled to a payment under this section in respect of a
year unless a notice under section 5 has been given in relation to that year.

"(8) A State is not entitled to a payment under this section in respect of a
year until 15 August in that year.

"(9) So far as practicable, the amount to which a State is entitled under this
section in respect of a year must be paid in equal quarterly instalments.".