Commonwealth Numbered Acts

STATES GRANTS (GENERAL PURPOSES) ACT 1991 No. 170, 1991 - SECT 4

4. In this Act, a reference to a hospital grant, in relation to a State, is a
reference to an amount worked out using the formula:
TAP - (SDA - RCC) where:

"TAP" (Total Amount Payable( means the amount determined by the Health
Minister before 10 June 1992 to be the estimate of the total amount payable to
the State, during the grant year, under the hospital funding arrangements for
that year;

"SDA" (Sum of Deductible Amounts( means the amount determined by that Minister
before that date to be the estimate of such part of TAP as is the sum of the
amounts payable to the State, during the grant year, under the hospital
funding arrangements for that year, for:

   (a)  additional day surgery procedures; and

   (b)  post-acute and palliative care services; and

   (c)  development of cost-based information systems; and

   (d)  purposes relating to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome;

"RCC" (Reduction in Certain Circumstances) means the amount determined by that
Minister before that date to be the estimate of any reduction in the amount
otherwise payable to the State, during the grant year, under the
hospital funding arrangements for that year, because of the existence of
circumstances that under those arrangements require the reduction to be made.