Commonwealth: States Grants (Nature Conservation) Amendment Act 1976 (Cth)

STATES GRANTS (NATURE CONSERVATION) AMENDMENT ACT 1976 No. 154 of 1976 An Act to amend the States Grants (Nature Conservation) Act 1974. BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:— Short title, &c. 1. (1) This Act may be cited as the States Grants (Nature Conservation) Amendment Act 1976. (2) The States Grants (Nature Conservation) Act 1974 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act. Agreements with State Ministers. 2. Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended— (a) by omitting from sub-section (1) the word "Australia" and substituting the words "the Commonwealth"; (b) by omitting paragraph (a) of sub-section (1) and substituting the following paragraph:— "(a) agree with an appropriate Minister of a State upon programs connected with nature conservation in that State, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing— (i) programs of land acquisition by that State or an approved authority of that State; and (ii) programs related to the management of, or the provision of facilities in, parks or reserves established under a law of that State for the purposes of nature conservation; and"; and (c) by inserting in sub-section (3), after the words "under paragraph (1) (a)", the words "relating to a program of land acquisition". Expenditure to be for approved purposes. 3. Section 7 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting in paragraph (a), before the words "the land" (first occurring), the words "in the case of expenditure incurred in the acquisition of land,". Advances. 4. Section 8 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (2) the word "Australia" and substituting the words "the Commonwealth". Saving. 5. A program agreed upon in accordance with paragraph 4(1)(a) of the Principal Act before the commencement of this Act continues to be an approved program within the meaning of the Principal Act as amended by this Act as if it had been agreed upon in accordance with paragraph 4(1)(a) of the Principal Act as so amended.