Prescribed expenditure to assist council with natural disaster response
170A Prescribed expenditure to assist council with natural disaster response
For the Act, section 55(3)(n)(i), the amount of $500,000 is prescribed, but only for a contract that—
is primarily for the purpose of response to or recovery from a declared natural disaster, and
is entered into within 12 months after the date on which the natural disaster is declared.
In this section—
declared natural disaster means a natural disaster that has been declared in relation to the area of a council by either—
a Natural Disaster Declaration for the purposes of the Natural Disaster Relief and Recovery Arrangements jointly administered by the Commonwealth and the States and Territories, or
a declaration under the State Emergency and Rescue Management Act 1989, section 33.
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