Rural and Regional Adjustment Regulation 2011

This section applies if a grant of financial assistance to an applicant for the cost of carrying out eligible works was made under the scheme set out in schedule 44 before the commencement.

The authority must, as soon as practicable after the commencement, pay the amount of the GST that was excluded from the grant of financial assistance—

if the assistance was paid to the applicant—to the applicant; or

otherwise—to the licensed contractor who carried out the eligible works or is contracted to carry out the eligible works.