1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Albury-Wodonga Development (Financial Assistance) Amendment Act 1982.

(2) The Albury-Wodonga Development (Financial Assistance) Act 1973¹ is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

Commencement

2. (1) Subject to sub-section (2), this Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

(2) Section 3 shall be deemed to have come into operation on 1 July 1981.

4. (1) Where an amount by way of financial assistance in respect of expenditure referred to in section 4 of the Principal Act, other than financial assistance in respect of such of that expenditure as was expenditure on municipal works, was paid or advanced under the Principal Act as in force at a time before the commencement of section 3 of this Act to a State by way of a loan—

(a) every condition to which that payment or advance was subject immediately before 1 July 1981, being a condition relating to—

(i) the repayment of the principal, or payment of interest, by the State in respect of that payment or advance; or

(ii) the payment by the State of an amount in respect of such interest,

shall be deemed to have ceased to apply in relation to that payment or advance on 1 July 1981; and

(b) where, by reason of such a condition, an amount of interest payable by the State in respect of that payment or advance, or an amount payable by the State in respect of such interest, had accrued before that date, but that amount had not been, and was not required to be, paid before that date, the obligation to pay that amount shall be deemed to have ceased on that date.

(2) Nothing in sub-section (1) shall be taken to affect any condition other than a condition referred to in that sub-section to which a payment or advance to which that sub-section applies is, or has at any time been, subject.