Commonwealth Numbered Acts

Housing Assistance Act 1981 No. 70 of 1981 - SECT 6

6. (1) Subject to this Act, the Minister may, during a year to which this
Act applies, if an agreement has been entered into between the Commonwealth
and a State in pursuance of this Act, authorize the payment to the State, by
way of financial assistance, of such amounts as he determines to be
appropriate-

   (a)  for expenditure by the State in respect of that year for any purpose
        relating to the provision of rental housing to any person included in
        a class of persons that is specified by the Minister for the purposes
        of the payment, being a class of persons that is specified in the
        agreement to be a class of persons in need of assistance or is
        declared by the Minister, in pursuance of the agreement, to be such a
        class; or

   (b)  for expenditure by the State in respect of that year for any purpose
        related to housing that the State determines to be appropriate, being
        a purpose in respect of which moneys paid under this section are
        permitted to be expended under the agreement.

(2) Grants shall be made on such terms and conditions as are specified in the
agreement in relation to the grants.