NATIONAL ROADS ACT 1974 No. 52, 1974 - SECT 13
Conditions.
NATIONAL ROADS ACT 1974 No. 52, 1974 - SECT 13
Conditions.
13. Payment of an amount (including an advance) to a State in relation to an
approved project is subject to the following conditions:-
(a) that the State will at all reasonable times, permit a person
authorized by the Minister-
(i) to inspect any work involved in the carrying out of the
approved project;
(ii) to carry out reasonable tests on any work that has been or is
being carried out on the approved project, being tests designed
to ascertain whether the work has been or is being carried out
in accordance with the standards applicable to that work in
accordance with section 5; and
(iii) to inspect and take copies of, or extracts from, any plans,
designs, tenders, records or other documents relating to the
approved project;
(b) that, if the Minister so requests, there will be furnished to the
Minister by the State, as soon as practicable after such date as the
Minister specifies, a comprehensive report concerning the project or a
specified part of the project, being a report containing such
particulars as are specified by the Minister;
(c) that if the Minister informs the Treasurer of the State that he is
satisfied that the State has failed to fulfil a condition specified in
a preceding paragraph, the State will repay the amount, or such part
of the amount as the Minister specifies, to Australia; and
(d) that the Treasurer may deduct any sum repayable by a State under
paragraph (c) from an amount payable by Australia to the State under
this Act.