STATES (TAX SHARING AND HEALTH GRANTS) AMENDMENT ACT 1982 NO. 8, 1982 

STATES (TAX SHARING AND HEALTH GRANTS) AMENDMENT ACT 1982 NO. 8, 1982 
- TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1. Short title.  
2. Commencement  
3. Tax sharing grants for 1981-82  
4.  
5. Minimum entitlements  
6. Review of distribution of Part II grants  
7. Schedule 2  
8. Application  

STATES (TAX SHARING AND HEALTH GRANTS) AMENDMENT ACT 1982 No. 8, 1982
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Short title.

          STATES (TAX SHARING AND HEALTH GRANTS) AMENDMENT ACT 1982
                                No. 8 of 1982
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      An Act to amend the States (Tax Sharing and Health Grants) Act 1981

                                                     (Assented to 30 March 1982)

  BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and the House of Representatives
of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:
Short title, &c.

  1. (1) This Act may be cited as the States (Tax Sharing and Health Grants)
Amendment Act 1982.

  (2) The States (Tax Sharing and Health Grants) Act 1981*1* is in this Act
referred to as the Principal Act.

STATES (TAX SHARING AND HEALTH GRANTS) AMENDMENT ACT 1982 No. 8, 1982
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Commencement

  2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the
Royal Assent.

STATES (TAX SHARING AND HEALTH GRANTS) AMENDMENT ACT 1982 No. 8, 1982
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Tax sharing grants for 1981-82

  3. Section 8 of the Principal Act is amended-

  (a) by inserting in sub-section (1) ''other than the Northern Territory''
after ''State'' (first occurring);

  (b) by  omitting  sub-section  (2)  and  substituting  the  following
sub-section:

     ''(2) For the purposes of sub-section (1), the basic tax sharing grant,
in relation to a State in respect of the year commencing on 1 July 1981, shall
be an amount that is the product of $6,524,600,000 and the factor obtained by
dividing the adjusted population figure in relation to that State in respect
of that year by the total of the adjusted population figures in relation to
all the States other than the Northern Territory in respect of that year.'';
and

  (c) by omitting sub-paragraphs (3) (b) (v) and (vi) and substituting the
following word and sub-paragraph:

     ''and (v) in the case of Tasmania-2.00188.''.

STATES (TAX SHARING AND HEALTH GRANTS) AMENDMENT ACT 1982 No. 8, 1982
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  4. After section 8 of the Principal Act the following sections are
inserted:
Fixed tax sharing grant to the Northern Territory for 1981-82

  ''8A. The Northern Territory is entitled to the payment, in respect of the
year commencing on 1 July 1981, by way of financial assistance, of
$315,100,000. 
Additional fixed tax sharing grant to Queensland for 1981-82

  ''8B. In addition to the payment to which Queensland is entitled under
section 8 in respect of the year commencing on 1 July 1981, that State is
entitled to the payment, in respect of that year, by way of financial
assistance, of $9,000,000.''.

STATES (TAX SHARING AND HEALTH GRANTS) AMENDMENT ACT 1982 No. 8, 1982
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Minimum entitlements

  5. Section 11 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting sub-section (3).

STATES (TAX SHARING AND HEALTH GRANTS) AMENDMENT ACT 1982 No. 8, 1982
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Review of distribution of Part II grants

  6. Section 28 of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end thereof
the following sub-section:

  ''(2) In sub-section (1), 'States' does not include the Northern
Territory.''. 

STATES (TAX SHARING AND HEALTH GRANTS) AMENDMENT ACT 1982 No. 8, 1982
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Schedule 2

  7. Schedule 2 to the Principal Act is repealed and the following Schedule
substituted:

                                 ''SCHEDULE 2
                                                                       Section 8

                            ALLOCATIONS TO STATES
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Column 1                                   Column 2             Column 3
                                                           Allocations in lieu
                                                                  of
                                           Special         terminated specific
Name of State                            allocations          purpose programs
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                                               $                    $
New South Wales . . . . . . . . . . .     24,500,000           23,300,000
Victoria . . . . . . . . . . . . . .      26,000,000           19,300,000
Queensland  . . . . . . . . . . . . .     20,500,000           12,300,000
South Australia . . . . . . . . . . .     11,000,000            7,200,000
Western Australia . . . . . . . . . .         ..                4,800,000
Tasmania  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .      5,000,000            2,200,000''.
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STATES (TAX SHARING AND HEALTH GRANTS) AMENDMENT ACT 1982 No. 8, 1982
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Application

  8. (1) An amount paid to a State under Part II of the Principal Act shall be
taken, for the purposes of the Principal Act as amended by this Act, to have
been paid under Part II of that Act as so amended.

  (2) In sub-section (1), ''State'' includes the Northern Territory.
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STATES (TAX SHARING AND HEALTH GRANTS) AMENDMENT ACT 1982 No. 8, 1982 - NOTE

                                      NOTE
1.  No. 99, 1981.
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