Queensland Consolidated Acts

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 2009 - SECT 228

228 Allocating Commonwealth funding

(1) The
"grants commission" is a body that is created under this Act to perform the responsibilities of a Local Government Grants Commission under the Local Government (Financial Assistance) Act .

(2) The grants commission and the Minister must comply with the Local Government (Financial Assistance) Act .

(3) The public hearings that the grants commission is required to hold under the Local Government (Financial Assistance) Act must be held in the way set out in part 1 .

(4) If—

(a) the grants commission requires a local governing body to provide information to help the grants commission make a decision about funding under the Local Government (Financial Assistance) Act ; and

(b) the local governing body does not make a submission by the date reasonably specified by the grants commission;

the grants commission can recommend that no funding be allocated to the local governing body.

(5) A
"local governing body" is a local governing body within the meaning of the Local Government (Financial Assistance) Act .

(6) The Minister must not distribute to a local government an amount equal to notional GST if the local government has not paid the notional GST.

(7)
"Notional GST" is an amount that a local government may pay under the GST and Related Matters Act 2000 , section 5 .

(8) The Minister must table the following in the Legislative Assembly—

(a) the grants commission’s recommendations about the allocation of funding;

(b) a breakdown of how the funding was allocated between local governments.