Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2007C00533:clause:3_203fe:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2007C00533
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 3 cl 203FE (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 466424–469032

203FE  Grants of assistance by ATSIC

Grants if there is no representative body

 (1) ATSIC may make one or more grants of money to a person or body for the purpose of enabling the person or body to perform, in respect of a specified area for which there is no representative body:
 (a) all the functions of a representative body; or
 (b) specified functions of a representative body;
either generally or in relation to one or more specified matters.

Grants following certain decisions under section 203FB

 (2) ATSIC may make one or more grants of money to a person or body for the purpose of enabling the person or body to perform specified facilitation and assistance functions of a representative body in relation to a matter to which a decision under paragraph 203FB(7)(b) relates.

Conditions of grants

 (3) A grant of money to a person or body under this section may be subject to such conditions as ATSIC thinks fit. However, ATSIC must impose conditions relating to:
 (a) the purposes for which the money may be spent; and
 (b) the period within which the money is to be spent; and
 (c) the acquittal of money spent; and
 (d) the giving of information relating to expenditure of the money; and
 (e) the appointment of a person, in cases where ATSIC considers that grant money has not been spent in accordance with the conditions of the grant, with the power to prevent expenditure of further grant money otherwise than in accordance with the conditions of the grant; and
 (f) the person's or body's continuing satisfactory performance of its functions referred to in subsection (1) or (2), as the case requires; and
 (g) the giving of information relating to the performance of the functions referred to in subsection (1) or (2), as the case requires.

Grant period to be specified

 (4) ATSIC must determine the period during which the person or body may spend the money.

Grant period may be extended

 (5) If ATSIC considers it appropriate, ATSIC may determine that the period during which the person or body may spend the money is extended for a specified further period.

Persons or bodies must comply with conditions etc.

 (6) The person or body must comply with the conditions of the grant, and with any determinations under subsection (4) or (5).

Application of ATSIC Act

 (7) Sections 20, 21, 21A and 22 of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Act 1989 apply to a grant under this section as if the grant had been made under section 14 of that Act.

Note: The effect of this subsection is to enable ATSIC to recover from a person or body amounts of grants if the