Commonwealth Numbered Acts

HOUSING ASSISTANCE ACT 1989 No. 7 of 1990 - SECT 13

13. (1) For the purposes of this section:

   (a)  a State is not to be taken to be a State in a grant year if a housing
        agreement with the State was not made before that year; and

   (b)  the Australian Capital Territory is not to be taken to be a State
        before 1 July 1993.

(2) Subject to sections 6 and 15, the Minister, in authorising untied grants
to be made after the first grant year, is to ensure that the amounts of those
grants are allocated among the States in accordance with this section.

(3) In each grant year, $146,000,000 is to be allocated among the States as
far as practicable on an equal per capita basis but so that no State is
allocated less than $7,300,000.

(4) In the second grant year, $208,038,000 is to be allocated among the States
in accordance with Schedule 3.

(5) In the third grant year, $102,466,000 is to be allocated among the States
in accordance with Schedule 3.

(6) Where, because of paragraph (1) (a), part of an amount referred to in
subsection (4) or (5) is not allocated under the subsection in a grant year,
the part may be allocated in the year among such of the States and, where a
housing agreement with the Australian Capital Territory is in force in the
year, that Territory, and in such proportions, as the Minister determines to
be appropriate.

(7) The balance of the amounts to be allocated in accordance with this section
in each grant year is to be allocated among the States as far as practicable
on an equal per capita basis.

(8) This section does not affect the operation of any priority provision in a
housing agreement.