STATES GRANTS ACT 1927 

STATES GRANTS ACT 1927 
- TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1.   Short title [see Note 1]    
5.   Payment of surplus revenue    
7.   Appropriation    

STATES GRANTS ACT 1927

- LONG TITLE

An Act to grant and apply out of the Consolidated Revenue
Fund sums for the purposes of Financial Assistance to States, and for other
purposes

STATES GRANTS ACT 1927
- SECT 1   Short title [see Note 1] 

 
        This Act may be cited as the States Grants Act 1927.

STATES GRANTS ACT 1927
- SECT 5   Payment of surplus revenue 

 
(1)  The Treasurer shall pay to the several States of the Commonwealth, in
proportion to the number of their people, any surplus revenue in his hands at
the close of the financial year commencing on the first day of July One
thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, and at the close of each financial year
thereafter. 
(2)  For the purposes of this section, the number of the people of a State
shall be deemed to be the number as ascertained according to the laws of the
Commonwealth by the Commonwealth Statistician as at the thirty-first day of
December in the financial year in respect of which a payment under this section
is to be made to that State.

STATES GRANTS ACT 1927
- SECT 7   Appropriation 

 
        All payments made under this Act shall be paid out of the Consolidated
Revenue Fund, which is, to the necessary extent, hereby appropriated accordingly.

STATES GRANTS ACT 1927

- NOTES

Compilation Information

States Grants Act 1927
Act No. 4 of 1927 as amended
This compilation was prepared on 11 October 2000taking into account
amendments up to Act No. 216 of 1973
The text of any of those amendments not in force on that date is appended
in the Notes section
Prepared by the Office of Legislative Drafting,Attorney-General's
Department, Canberra
  
  
  

STATES GRANTS ACT 1927

- NOTES

STATES GRANTS ACT 1927Notes to the States Grants Act 1927

Note 1
The States Grants Act 1927 (a) as shown in this compilation
comprises Act No. 4, 1927 amended as indicated in the Tables below.
Table of Acts

Act

Number
and year

Date
of Assent

Date
of commencement

Application,
saving or transitional provisions

States
Grants Act 1927

4,
1927

8
Apr 1927

8
Apr 1927

Statute
Law Revision Act 1934

45,
1934

6
Aug 1934

6
Aug 1934

S.
8

Statute
Law Revision Act 1950

80,
1950

16
Dec 1950

31
Dec 1950

Ss.
16 and 17

Statute
Law Revision Act 1973

216,
1973

19
Dec 1973

31
Dec 1973

Ss.
9(1) and 10

        (a)
This citation is provided for by the Amendments Incorporation Act 1905
and the Acts Citation Act 1976.

STATES GRANTS ACT 1927

- NOTES

Table of Amendments

ad.
= added or inserted      am. = amended      rep. = repealed      rs. = repealed
and substituted

Provision
affected

How
affected

Title

am.
No. 216, 1973

S.
2

rep.
No. 80, 1950

Ss.
3, 4

rep.
No. 45, 1934

S.
5

am.
No. 45, 1934

S.
6

rep.
No. 45, 1934

S.
8

rep.
No. 80, 1950

Schedule

rep.
No. 45, 1934