Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01281:clause:1ab_62
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01281
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1AB cl 62
Character Range: 394656–398594

62        National Stronger Regions Fund                                                                                                                       To provide grants to support the construction, expansion and enhancement of infrastructure across regional Australia.
                                                                                                                                                               This objective also has the effect it would have if it were limited to providing grants:
                                                                                                                                                               (a) in or in relation to a Territory; or
                                                                                                                                                               (b) as financial assistance to a State or Territory; or
                                                                                                                                                               (c) to or in relation to Indigenous Australians and particular groups of Indigenous Australians; or
                                                                                                                                                               (d) to commemorate Australians killed or injured in war, and support veterans and defence force members and their families and communities; or
                                                                                                                                                               (e) in relation to aliens or immigrants; or
                                                                                                                                                               (f) in connection with trade and commerce with other countries, or among the States and Territories; or
                                                                                                                                                               (g) in connection with assisting Australia to meet its obligations under international agreements; or
                                                                                                                                                               (h) to provide medical services, unemployment, pharmaceutical, sickness and hospital benefits, benefits to students, and measures incidental to the provision of those matters; or
                                                                                                                                                               (i) in connection with electronic communications; or
                                                                                                                                                               (j) to provide assistance to trading, financial and foreign corporations to which paragraph 51(xx) of the Constitution applies where the assistance relates to the existing activities of the corporations; or
                                                                                                                                                               (k) for the construction or extension of railways in any State with the consent of that State; or
                                                                                                                                                               (l) to provide for measures that are peculiarly adapted to the government of a nation and cannot otherwise be carried on for the benefit of the nation; or
                                                                                                                                                               (m) in the exercise of the executive power of the Commonwealth.