Commonwealth Numbered Acts

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY (SELF-GOVERNMENT) ACT 1988 No. 106 of 1988 - SECT 59

59. (1) The Commonwealth shall conduct its financial relations with the
Territory so as to ensure that the Territory is treated on the same basis as
the States and the Northern Territory, while having regard to the special
circumstances arising from the existence of the national capital and the seat
of government of the Commonwealth in the Territory.

(2) The Territory is not liable to bear the cost, or part of the cost, of:

   (a)  any power of the Commonwealth relating to a matter referred to in
        section 23;

   (b)  administering a law, or a provision of a law, referred to in Schedule
        3; or

   (c)  any other power of the Commonwealth, or of a Commonwealth authority,
        relating to the Territory.