Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2005C00098:section:10:p3
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2005C00098
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 10 (pt 3/5)
Character Range: 10502–13625

by this agreement:

NOW IT IS HEREBY AGREED as follows:

1. This agreement shall have no force or effect and shall not be binding upon either party unless and until it has been approved by the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia.

2. As from the coming into force of this agreement but with operation deemed to have commenced on the first day of July 1973 as provided in sub-clause 1 (2) of the Principal Agreement, the amount of the financial assistance that may be provided in accordance with the Principal Agreement shall be increased by 1,000,000 dollars, that is, to a total amount of 4,100,000 dollars.

3. As varied by this agreement the Principal Agreement is confirmed to the intent that its provisions shall have effect as terms and conditions of the additional financial assistance provided for by this agreement as well as to the financial assistance made available under the Principal Agreement itself.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF this agreement has been executed as at the day and year first above written.
SIGNED for and on behalf of THE GOVERNMENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA by THE HONOURABLE EDWARD GOUGH WHITLAM, Prime Minister, in the presence of—

JIM CAIRNS
                                                                                                                                                            E. G. WHITLAM

SIGNED for and on behalf of THE GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE QUEENSLAND by THE HONOURABLE JOHANNES BJELKE-PETERSEN, Premier, in the presence of—

KEITH SPANN
                                                                                                                                                            JOH. BJELKE-PETERSEN

PART III

AN AGREEMENT made the twenty-ninth day of May One thousand nine hundred and seventy-four between—

    THE GOVERNMENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA (in this agreement called "the Australian Government") of the one part, and

    THE GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA (in this agreement called "the State Government") of the other part.

    WHEREAS—

    (a) by the Sewerage Agreements Act 1973 the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia authorized the payment to the Government of a State of Australia of financial assistance for sewerage works on the terms and conditions contained in an agreement between the Australian Government and the Government of the State provided for by section 3 of that Act;

    (b) on the eighteenth day of January 1974 the Australian Government and the State Government made an agreement (in this agreement called "the Principal Agreement") under which financial assistance is provided to the State Government with the objective of eliminating within the shortest feasible time the backlog of sewerage works in the urban centre of Perth;

    (c) under the Principal Agreement an amount of 3,800,000 dollars was allocated to the State Government by way of financial assistance as aforesaid in respect of backlog sewerage works that are commenced before the first day of July 1974;

    (d) the Australian Government and the State Government are desirous of increasing the