Commonwealth Numbered Acts

STATES GRANTS (ROADS) ACT 1977 No. 101, 1977 - SECT 7

7. (1) The Minister may request a State to submit a program of projects
proposed to be undertaken by the State during a year to which this Act applies
in accordance with any notification or notifications in force under section 6
and may, in the request, specify-

   (a)  the form in accordance with which, and the date before which, the
        program of projects is to be furnished to him for the purposes of this
        section;

   (b)  the particulars of projects to be specified in the program; and

   (c)  classes of projects in respect of which particulars of the projects
        are to be approved by him before the projects are included in such a
        program.

(2) Where-

   (a)  a State, in accordance with a request made to it under sub-section
        (1), furnishes to the Minister a program of projects of works referred
        to in a notification in force under paragraph 6 (1) (b); and

   (b)  the program complies with any requirements set out in a notification
        in force under paragraph 6 (1) (c) or (d) that are applicable in
        relation to it, the Minister may-

   (c)  approve the program; or

   (d)  modify the program to the extent he thinks desirable, and approve the
        program as so modified.

(3) A reference in sub-section (2) to the modification of a program includes
references to the omission of a project from a program and the addition of a
project to a program.

(4) Without limiting the power of the Minister to modify a program under
paragraph (2) (d), the Minister may modify a program furnished by a State by
omitting a project from that program-

   (a)  if he is of the opinion that consultation with the State should be
        held concerning the project before the project is included in an
        approved program; or

   (b)  if he is of the opinion that preliminary investigations in respect of
        the project should be carried out before it is included in an approved
        program.

(5) For the purposes of this Part, the Minister may, whether or not a
notification has been given to a State in accordance with paragraph 6 (1) (b),
approve, in consultation with the appropriate Minister of the State, programs
of projects proposed to be undertaken by the State during a year to which this
Act applies.

(6) The Minister may approve-

   (a)  a variation of;

   (b)  a revocation of; or

   (c)  a revocation of, and the substitution of a new program for, a program
        of projects approved by him under sub-section (2) or (5).

(7) Where the Minister approves a program of projects for a year to which
this Act applies-

   (a)  if the program includes a project that is a stage of a larger project
        and the Minister has approved the carrying out of the larger project
        partly in that year and partly in a succeeding
        year to which this Act applies-the Minister shall be deemed to have
        approved the inclusion of the stage of the project to be carried out
        in a succeeding year to which this Act applies in the program of
        projects to be carried out in that succeeding year; and

   (b)  if the program includes a project that is to be carried out in that
        year but the project is not completed in that year-the Minister shall,
        unless the year is the year commencing on 1 July 1979, be deemed to
        have approved the inclusion of the uncompleted part of the project in
        the approved program for the next following
        year to which this Act applies.