Commonwealth Numbered Acts

STATES (WORKS AND HOUSING) ASSISTANCE ACT 1982 No. 96, 1982 - SECT 7

7. (1) Subject to sub-section (4), the Northern Territory may, during the year
ending on 30 June 1983, notify the Treasurer that, for the purpose of welfare
housing, it requires a loan of a specified amount, not being an amount that
exceeds $80,419,000, and, where the Northern Territory does so, the Treasurer
may, during that year, authorize the making of that loan by way of financial
assistance for that purpose.

(2) Subject to section 8, a loan under sub-section (1) shall be made on such
terms and conditions as are specified in the agreement entered into between
the Commonwealth and the Northern Territory in pursuance of the Housing 
Assistance Act 1981 in relation to loans, other than any terms and conditions
of the agreement relating to the provision of matching funds by the Northern
Territory.

(3) Payments for the purposes of this section shall be made in such amounts
and at such times as the Treasurer approves.

(4) Nothing in this Act, the Supply Act (No. 2) 1982-83 or the Appropriation
Act (No. 2) 1982-83 shall be taken to authorize-

   (a)  the payment to the Northern Territory by way of a loan under this
        section; or

   (b)  the payment to the Northern Territory out of such of the moneys
        appropriated by the Appropriation Act (No. 2) 1982-83 as are specified
        in item 4 of Division 977 in Schedule 2 to that Act, of an amount the
        payment of which would result in the sum of the payments under this
        section and the payments out of the moneys referred to in paragraph
        (b) exceeding $80,419,000.

(5) The Acts specified in sub-section (4) have effect subject to that
sub-section.