Commonwealth Numbered Acts

A NEW TAX SYSTEM (COMMONWEALTH-STATE FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENTS) ACT 1999

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Short title  
   2.      Commencement  
   3.      Outline of Act  
   4.      Definitions  
   5.      GST revenue  
   6.      Hospital grants  
   7.      Determination of population of a State  
   8.      Index factor  
   9.      Relativities factor  

   PART 2--INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT ON THE REFORM OF COMMONWEALTH-STATE FINANCIAL RELATIONS

   10.     Intergovernmental Agreement on the Reform of Commonwealth-State Financial Relations  

   PART 3--CHANGING THE RATE AND BASE OF GST

   11.     Changing the rate and base of GST  
   12.     Definitions  

   PART 4--GRANTS TO THE STATES

           Division 1--GST revenue grants

   13.     GST revenue grants  

           Division 2--Other grants

   14.     Franchise fees windfall tax reimbursement payments  
   15.     Competition Agreement payments  
   16.     Revenue replacement payments—2000-01  

           Division 3--Payment of grants

   17.     Overpayment or underpayment of grant  
   18.     Advance payments for GST year  
   19.     Treasurer may fix amounts, and times of payments, of financial assistance  

   PART 5--MISCELLANEOUS

   20.     Appropriation  
   21.     Delegation by Treasurer  
   22.     Determinations  
   23.     Regulations  
           SCHEDULE 1 - Transitional arrangements
           SCHEDULE 2 - Intergovernmental Agreement on the Reform of Commonwealth-State Financial Relations