Commonwealth Numbered Acts

STATES GRANTS (GENERAL PURPOSES) ACT 1991 No. 170, 1991 - SECT 3

3.(1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:

"adjusted population", in relation to a State, means the estimated population
of the State on 31 December 1991 multiplied by the population factor for the
State;

"base assistance amount" means $13,381,200,733;

"calculation quarter" means a period of 3 months ending on 30 June 1991, 30
September 1991, 31 December 1991 or 31 March 1992;

"Education Minister" means the Minister for Employment, Education and
Training;

"estimated population" has the meaning given by section 5;

"grant year" means the financial year that commenced on 1 July 1991;

"Health Minister" means the Minister for Health, Housing and Community
Services;

"higher education institution" has the same meaning as in the Employment, 
Education and Training Act 1988 ;

"hospital funding arrangements" means the arrangements set out in the
agreements entered into with the States under section 23F of the Health 
Insurance Act 1973 ;

"hospital grant" has the meaning given by section 4;

"index estimate" means:

   (a)  except where paragraph (b) applies, 876.1, being the sum of the index
        numbers, in respect of the calculation quarters, estimated by the
        Department in May 1991; or

   (b)  if the Statistician changes the reference base for the Consumer Price
        Index in relation to a calculation quarter, the number that the
        Treasurer determines would have been the sum of the index numbers, in
        respect of the calculation quarters, estimated by the Department in
        May 1991 if it had known the terms of the new reference base;

"index factor" means the factor worked out by dividing the sum of the index
numbers in respect of the calculation quarters by the index estimate;

"index number", in relation to a calculation quarter, means the All Groups
Consumer Price Index number, being the weighted average of the 8 capital
cities, published by the Statistician in respect of that quarter;

"population factor" means:

   (a)  in relation to New South Wales - 1.015; or

   (b)  in relation to Victoria - 1.000; or

   (c)  in relation to Queensland - 1.335; or

   (d)  in relation to Western Australia - 1.408; or

   (e)  in relation to South Australia - 1.526; or

   (f)  in relation to Tasmania - 1.731; or

   (g)  in relation to the Northern Territory - 5.673;

"State" includes the Northern Territory;

"Statistician" means the Australian Statistician;

"unfunded superannuation liabilities", in relation to higher education
institutions in a State, means unfunded superannuation liabilities in relation
to higher education under superannuation schemes conducted by the State.

(2) Subject to subsection (3), if, at any time after the publication of an
index number in respect of the calculation quarter ending on31 March 1992, the
Statistician publishes an index number in respect of a calculation quarter in
substitution for an index number previously published by the Statistician in
respect of the last-mentioned quarter, the publication of the later index
number is to be disregarded for the purposes of this Act.

(3) If at any time the Statistician changes the reference base for the
Consumer Price Index in relation to a calculation quarter, then, for the
purposes of the application of this Act, regard is to be had only to index
numbers published in terms of the new reference base.