Commonwealth Numbered Acts

STATES (TAX SHARING AND HEALTH GRANTS) AMENDMENT ACT (No. 2) 1983 No. 53, 1983 - SECT 3

3. Section 18 of the Principal Act is amended-

   (a)  by omitting sub-section (2) and substituting the following
        sub-section:

''(2) The States are together entitled to the payment, in respect of the year
commencing on 1 July 1984, by way of financial assistance, of an amount that
bears to the sum of-

   (a)  the amount to which the States (other than South Australia and
        Tasmania) are together entitled under sub-section (1) in respect of
        the year commencing on 1 July 1983;

   (b)  the amount to which South Australia is entitled under sub-section (3)
        in respect of the year commencing on 1 July 1983;

   (c)  the amount to which Tasmania is entitled under sub-section (3) in
        respect of the year commencing on 1 July 1983;

   (d)  the agreed amount for South Australia; and

   (e)  the agreed amount for Tasmania,

the same proportion as the total amount of the taxes collected by the
Commonwealth in the last-mentioned year bears to the total amount of taxes
collected by the Commonwealth in the year commencing on 1 July 1982.''; and

   (b)  by omitting sub-section (4) and substituting the following
        sub-sections:

''(4) In addition to the payments to which South Australia and Tasmania are
each entitled under sub-section (3) in respect of the year commencing on 1
July 1983, each of those States is entitled to the payment, in respect of that
year, by way of financial assistance, of an amount equal to the difference
between the agreed amount for that State and the sum of the amounts paid to
that State by the Commonwealth in respect of the period commencing on 1 July
1983 and expiring on 31 January 1984 under the cost sharing agreement
subsisting between the Commonwealth and that State during that period under
section 30 of the Health Insurance Act 1973.

''(5) In this section, 'agreed amount', in relation to South Australia or
Tasmania, means an amount agreed upon between the Commonwealth Minister for
Health and the Minister for Health for that State to represent the amount that
would have been payable to the State in respect of the year commencing on 1
July 1983 under the cost sharing agreement subsisting between the Commonwealth
and that State under section 30 of the Health Insurance Act 1973 relating to
the provision of hospital services if-

   (a)  that agreement as in force immediately before 1 February 1984 had
        continued in force during the period commencing on
1 February 1984 and expiring on 30 June 1984; and

   (b)  the policies in relation to charges for provision of those hospital
        services in effect in that State immediately before 1 February 1984
        had continued in effect during the period referred to in paragraph
        (a).''.