- (1)
- This section applies to any payment made out of money appropriated by a
State payment item for an outcome identified in column 2 of the table in
Schedule 1.
- (2)
- The payment:
(a) must be made on the applicable terms and conditions (if any) for that
outcome; and
(b) must be made in the amounts, and at the times, that are determined in
writing by the Minister specified in column 4 of the table.
- (3)
- This
section does not, by implication, limit the power of the Commonwealth
to:
(a) apply terms and conditions to non-State payments; or
(b) determine the amounts and times of non-State payments.
- (4)
- A
determination under paragraph (2)(b) is not a legislative
instrument.
- (5)
- In this section:
"applicable terms and conditions", in relation to an outcome identified in the
table in Schedule 1, means terms and conditions from time to time
determined (either before or after the commencement of this Act) in writing by
the Minister specified in column 3 of the table as being the terms and
conditions that apply to payments that are made to or for a State in relation
to that outcome out of money appropriated by an annual Appropriation Act.
"non-State payment" means a payment made out of money that is appropriated by
the Parliament (either under this Act or another Act), other than a payment
out of money appropriated by a State payment item.
- (6)
- A determination of terms and conditions as mentioned in the definition of
applicable terms and conditions in subsection (5) is not a legislative
instrument.
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