New South Wales Consolidated Acts

FORESTRY RESTRUCTURING AND NATURE CONSERVATION ACT 1995 - SECT 4

4 Payments from the Fund for certain programs

(1) There is to be paid out of the Fund such amounts as the Minister for the Environment directs for payment into the Consolidated Fund to offset the amounts paid from the Consolidated Fund for the following expenditure:

(a) Expenditure for the purpose of implementing a program of forest industry restructuring, shown in the Budget Papers as expenditure to be recouped from the Fund. That expenditure is referred to in this Act as "forest industry restructuring expenditure".

(d) Expenditure for the purpose of implementing forestry restructure and assistance schemes and programs in the Brigalow and Nandewar and adjacent areas, including business exit assistance, timber worker assistance and industry development assistance, shown in the Budget Papers or declared in writing by the Treasurer as expenditure to be recouped from the Fund. That expenditure is referred to in this Act as "Brigalow and Nandewar areas expenditure".

(2) The Treasurer is to certify to the Minister from time to time the amounts paid from the Consolidated Fund for the expenditure referred to in this section.

(3) Money is not to be paid from the Fund under this Act in respect of forest industry restructuring expenditure unless the Minister for Land and Water Conservation certifies that the expenditure has been incurred for the purpose of implementing a program designed to assist persons affected by Government forest conservation initiatives.

(5) Money is not to be paid from the Fund under this Act in respect of Brigalow and Nandewar areas expenditure unless the Minister for the Environment and the Minister for Primary Industries jointly certify that the expenditure has been incurred for the purposes of implementing a scheme or program designed to assist persons affected by Government forest conservation initiatives in the Brigalow or Nandewar areas.