Commonwealth Numbered Acts

ROADS GRANTS ACT 1980 No. 106, 1980 - SECT 19

PART V-GENERAL
19. (1) In this section, "quota", in relation to a State, means the amount
applicable to the State in accordance with Schedule 5.

(2) Where the quota applicable to a State exceeds the amount, or the aggregate
of the amounts, that the State has, during the year to which this Act applies,
from its own resources, expended, or set aside for expenditure, on road works,
the State shall pay to the Commonwealth an amount equal to the excess, or such
lesser amount as the Minister for Finance determines.

(3) For the purposes of this section, an amount set aside for expenditure
during the year to which this Act applies shall not be taken into account as
an amount so set aside unless it is expended during a period of 6 months next
following the expiration of that year.

(4) For the purposes of this section-

   (a)  where a State has received, or is entitled to receive, financial
        assistance under the
        Transport Planning and Research (Financial Assistance)  Act 1977 in
        relation to moneys expended by the State on road planning or research,
        the State shall be deemed to have, from its own resources, expended on
        road works an amount equal to the amount by which the moneys so
        expended exceed the amount of that financial assistance; and

   (b)  moneys expended by a State from its own resources in meeting the costs
        of operating any of the following works or equipment, being works or
        equipment associated with a road, shall be deemed to have been
        expended on road works:

        (i)    opening-span bridges;

        (ii)   tunnels;

        (iii)  vehicular ferries;

        (iv)   traffic control systems.

(5) Subject to sub-section (6), a State may, for the purposes of this section,
treat-

   (a)  moneys expended by the State in the year to which this Act applies
        directly in connection with the provision or maintenance of roads in
        the State, not being moneys expended on particular road works; or

   (b)  moneys expended, or set aside for expenditure, by the State, in the
        year to which this Act applies, in payment of interest on moneys
        borrowed by the State and expended by the State on road works, as
        having been expended in that year by the State on road works carried
        out by the State in that year.

(6) Moneys treated as having been expended on road works in a year by virtue
of sub-section (5) shall not include-

   (a)  any moneys treated, by virtue of section 26, as having been expended
        in that year on an approved project; or

   (b)  moneys expended during a period of 6 months commencing on 1 July 1980
        that have been taken into account for the purposes of section 15 of
        the States  Grants (Roads) Act 1977 .