Commonwealth Numbered Acts

HOUSING ASSISTANCE ACT 1989 No. 7 of 1990 - SECT 15

15. (1) In this section:

"State expenditure", in relation to a State and a grant year, means the total
amount that the State has used or proposes to use in respect of that year in
relation to housing out of money that is, under a housing agreement with the
State, matching funds.

(2) The Minister, in authorising untied grants to a State in a grant year, is
to ensure that they do not reach an amount that would result in their not
being matched, in accordance with the housing agreement with the State, by the
State expenditure for the year.

(3) Where the amount allocated under section 12 or 13 to a State in respect of
a grant year exceeds the amount of untied grants for that year that, because
of subsection (2), can be authorised, the Minister may authorise the payment,
out of the excess, of additional untied grants to such other of the States as
the Minister determines to be appropriate.