States Grants (General Purposes) Amendment Act 1998 (Cth)

States Grants (General Purposes) Amendment Act 1998

No. 109, 1998

States Grants (General Purposes) Amendment Act 1998

No. 109, 1998

An Act to amend the States Grants (General Purposes) Act 1994, and for related purposes

Contents 1 Short title 2 Commencement 3 Schedule(s) Schedule 1—Amendment of the States Grants (General Purposes) Act 1994

States Grants (General Purposes) Amendment Act 1998

No. 109, 1998

An Act to amend the States Grants (General Purposes) Act 1994, and for related purposes

[Assented to 7 December 1998]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1 Short title This Act may be cited as the States Grants (General Purposes) Amendment Act 1998.

2 Commencement This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

3 Schedule(s) Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendment of the States Grants (General Purposes) Act 1994

1 Subsection 4(1) Insert: Torres Strait Treaty means the Treaty between Australia and the Independent State of Papua New Guinea concerning Sovereignty and Maritime Boundaries in the area between the 2 countries, including the area known as Torres Strait, and Related Matters, signed at Sydney, Australia on 18 December 1978. Note: The text of the Treaty is set out in the Australian Treaty Series 1985 No. 4.

2 Subsection 5(1) Omit all the words after "where:", substitute: RCC (reduction in certain circumstances) means the amount determined by the Health Minister before 10 June in the grant year to be the estimate of the reduction in the amount otherwise payable to the State during the grant year under a health care grant (being a reduction required by the conditions of the grant). SDA (sum of deductible amounts) means the amount determined by the Health Minister before 10 June in the grant year to be the estimate of such part of TAP as is the sum of the following amounts: (a) the sum of the deductible amounts payable to the State during the grant year; (b) the sum of the deductible amounts payable to a hospital, or to another person, during the grant year, being amounts that would have been payable to the State had the Health Minister been satisfied that the State was adhering to the principles set out in subsection 6(2) of the Health Care (Appropriation) Act 1998. TAP (total amount payable) means the amount determined by the Health Minister before 10 June in the grant year to be the estimate of the sum of the following amounts: (a) the amount payable to the State during the grant year under a health care grant; (b) the amount payable to a hospital, or to another person, during the grant year under a health care grant, being an amount that would have been payable to the State had the Health Minister been satisfied that the State was adhering to the principles set out in subsection 6(2) of the Health Care (Appropriation) Act 1998.