Commonwealth Numbered Acts

Housing Assistance Act 1981 No. 70 of 1981 - SECT 11

11. (1) The Minister may make arrangements for the making to a State, by way
of financial assistance to the State, of advances on account of amounts that
are expected to become payable to the State under section 6.

(2) The Minister may make arrangements for the making to a State, by way of
financial assistance to the State, of advances on account of amounts that are
expected to become payable to the State under section 7.

(3) Upon the execution of an agreement between the Commonwealth and a State in
pursuance of this Act, this Act and the agreement apply, and shall be deemed
at all relevant times to have applied, to and in relation to moneys paid to
that State under sub-section (1) or (2) as if those moneys had been paid under
and in accordance with section 6 or 7, as the case requires.

(4) If a State has not, before 1 January 1982, entered into an agreement with
the Commonwealth in pursuance of this Act, the State shall repay to the
Commonwealth an amount equal to the aggregate of the amounts (if any) paid to
the State under sub-section (1) and of the amounts (if any) paid to the State
under sub-section (2).