Commonwealth Numbered Acts

STATES (PERSONAL INCOME TAX SHARING) AMENDMENT ACT 1978 No. 85, 1978 - SECT 5

5. Section 13 of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the
following sub-sections:

''(3) The Minister shall before 30 June 1981 arrange, and, after consultations
between the Government of the Commonwealth and the Governments of the States,
may periodically after that date arrange, for the question whether any change
is desirable in the State factors to be referred to the Commonwealth Grants
Commission for inquiry and report by a Division of the Commission constituted
in accordance with section 19A of the Commonwealth  Grants Commission Act 1973
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   (a)  on the basis of the principle that the respective payments to which
        the States are entitled under this Act should enable each State to
        provide, without imposing taxes and charges at levels appreciably
        different from the levels of the taxes and charges imposed by the
        other States, government services at standards not appreciably
        different from the standards of the government services provided by
        the other States;

   (b)  taking account of-

        (i)    differences in the capacities of the States to raise revenues;
               and

        (ii)   differences in the amounts required to be expended by the
               States in providing comparable government services; and

   (c)  in the light of an examination by the Commission of-

        (i)    the matters that influenced the determination of the State
               factors; and

        (ii)   any events that have occurred since those State factors were
               determined that, in the opinion of the Commission, affect the
               appropriateness of the continued application of those factors.

''(4) For the purposes of sub-section (3), the State factors are-

   (a)  in the case of a State other than Victoria-the number by which the
        estimated population of the State on 31 December in a year is, by
        virtue of the definition of 'adjusted population figure' in
        sub-section 4 (1), required to be multiplied for the purpose of
        ascertaining the adjusted population figure of that State in respect
        of that year; and

   (b)  in the case of Victoria-the number one.''.
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