Commonwealth Numbered Acts

LOCAL GOVERNMENT (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE) ACT 1986 No. 79, 1986 - SECT 10

10. A State is not entitled to payment of an amount under section 7 or 8 in
respect of a year unless-

   (a)  there is a Local Government Grants Commission of the State;

   (b)  that Commission has made recommendations with respect to the
        allocation of the amount amongst local governing bodies in the State;

   (c)  that Commission-

        (i)    held public hearings (whether or not that Commission also held
               private hearings) in connection with those recommendations; and

        (ii)   permitted or required local governing bodies in the State or
               associations of those bodies to make submissions to that
               Commission in connection with those recommendations;

   (d)  the Minister is satisfied that that Commission will, at least once
        every 3 years, publish a report setting out details of the methods
        used by that Commission in making its recommendations with respect to
        the allocation amongst local governing bodies of amounts to which the
        State is entitled under this Act;

   (e)  the Minister is satisfied that, in determining the manner in which the
        State has allocated the amount amongst local governing bodies in the
        State, the State has had regard to or has adopted those
        recommendations;

   (f)  before particulars of the manner in which the State has allocated the
        amount amongst local governing bodies in the State are made public,
        the relevant State Minister has informed the Minister, in writing, of
        those particulars; and

   (g)  the Minister is satisfied that the State has allocated the amount
        amongst local governing bodies in the State-

        (i)    in a case where principles applicable to the State under
               section 9 have effect in respect of that year-in accordance
               with those principles; or

        (ii)   in any other case-in accordance with the method of allocating
               amounts payable to the State under the
               Local Government (Personal Income Tax  Sharing) Act 1976 that
               was applied in respect of the year that commenced on 1 July
               1985 or, if the Minister has, by agreement with the
               relevant State Minister, modified that method, in accordance
               with that method as so modified.