Marginal note:Payments to trust — immunization and public health

• 7. (1) The Minister of Finance may make direct payments, in an aggregate amount of not more than four hundred million dollars, to a trust established to provide the provinces with funding for the purposes of supporting a national immunization strategy and assisting in the enhancement of their public health capacities.

• Marginal note:Provincial share

  (2) The amount that may be provided to a province under this section is to be determined in accordance with the terms of the trust indenture establishing the trust referred to in subsection (1).

• Marginal note:Payments out of C.R.F.

  (3) Any amount payable under this section may be paid by the Minister of Finance out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund at the times and in the manner that the Minister of Finance considers appropriate.

Marginal note:Payment for 2004–2005

• 8. (1) For the fiscal year beginning on April 1, 2004, the Minister of Finance may make a cash payment to the Province of Nova Scotia in an amount equal to the aggregate of twentyone million dollars and an amount equal to 20 per cent of the Province's offshore minerals revenue for that fiscal year included in the description set out in paragraph (z.5) of the definition “revenue source” in subsection 4(2) of the FederalProvincial Fiscal Arrangements Act.

• Marginal note:Payment for 2005–2006

  (2) For the fiscal year beginning on April 1, 2005, the Minister of Finance may make a cash payment to the Province of Nova Scotia in an amount equal to 10 per cent of the Province's offshore minerals revenue for that fiscal year included in the description set out in paragraph (z.5) of the definition “revenue source” in subsection 4(2) of the FederalProvincial Fiscal Arrangements Act.

• Marginal note:Determination of offshore minerals revenue

  (3) The offshore minerals revenue of the Province of Nova Scotia for each of the fiscal years referred to in subsections (1) and (2) shall be determined by the Minister of Finance after the end of that fiscal year at the time of the final computation of the amount, if any, of the fiscal equalization payment that is payable to the Province for that fiscal year under Part I of the FederalProvincial Fiscal Arrangements Act.

• Marginal note:Payment out of C.R.F.

  (4) Any amount payable under subsection (1) or (2) may be paid by the Minister of Finance out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund at the time and in the manner that the Minister of Finance considers appropriate.

Marginal note:Payment of $120,000,000

• 9. (1) The Minister of Finance may make a cash payment of one hundred and twenty million dollars to the Province of Saskatchewan.

• Marginal note:Payment out of C.R.F.

  (2) Any amount payable under subsection (1) may be paid by the Minister of Finance out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund at the time and in the manner that the Minister of Finance considers appropriate.