{"id":"C1945A00033","name":"Appropriation Act 1945-46","slug":"appropriation-act-1945-46","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"33 of 1945","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":22225,"registerId":"commonwealth-C1945A00033-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-01","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Appropriation Act 1945-46","content":"APPROPRIATION 1945–46.\n\nNo. 33 of 1945.\n\nAn Act to grant and apply out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund a sum for the service of the year ending the thirtieth day of June, One thousand nine hundred and forty-six, and to appropriate the Supplies granted by the Parliament for that year.\n\n\\[Assented to 10th October, 1945.\\]\n\nPreamble.\n\nBE it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, for the purpose of appropriating the grant originated in the House of Representatives, as follows:—\n\nShort title\n\n1. This Act may be cited as the Appropriation Act 1945–46.\n\n \n\nCommencement.\n\n2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.\n\nIssue and application of £146,689,000.\n\n3. The Treasurer may issue out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund and apply towards making good the supply hereby granted to His Majesty for the service of the year ending the thirtieth day of June, One thousand nine hundred and forty-six, the sum of One hundred and forty-six million six hundred and eighty-nine thousand pounds.\n\nAppropriation of supply £202,246,000.\n\n4. All sums granted by this Act and the other Act mentioned in the First Schedule to this Act out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund towards making good the supply granted to His Majesty for the service of the year ending the thirtieth day of June, One thousand nine hundred and forty-six, amounting as appears by that Schedule in the aggregate, to the sum of Two hundred and two million two hundred and forty-six thousand pounds, are appropriated and shall be deemed to have been appropriated as from the first day of July, One thousand nine hundred and forty-five, for the purposes and services expressed in the Second Schedule to this Act in relation to the financial year ending the thirtieth day of June, One thousand nine hundred and forty-six.\n\nTHE SCHEDULES.\n\n—\n\nTHE FIRST SCHEDULE.\n\n—\n\nGRANTS OUT OF THE CONSOLIDATED REVENUE FUND.\n\n| | £ |\n| ------------------------------------------------------------ | ----------- |\n| Act No. 9 of 1945........................................... | 55,557,000 |\n| Under this Act.............................................. | 146,689,000 |\n| | 202,246,000 |\n\n \n\nTHE SECOND SCHEDULE\n\n—\n\nAbstract.\n\n```html\n

PART 1.—DEPARTMENTS AND SERVICES—OTHER THAN BUSINESS UNDERTAKINGS AND TERRITORIES OF THE COMMONWEALTH.

£

PARLIAMENT.................................................

219,500

PRIME MINISTER’S DEPARTMENT.................................

1,286,300

DEPARTMENT OF EXTERNAL, AFFAIRS.............................

260,500

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY.................................

2,362,000

ATTORNEY-GENERAL’S DEPARTMENT.............................

403,400

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR..................................

549,300

DEPARTMENT OF WORKS AND HOUSING............................

175,000

DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AVIATION.................................

717,000

DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND CUSTOMS............................

767,000

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH.......................................

211,000

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND AGRICULTURE....................

374,000

DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES...............................

632,000

DEPARTMENT OF SUPPLY AND SHIPPING...........................

288,000

DEPARTMENT OF EXTERNAL TERRITORIES..........................

40,000

DEPARTMENT OF IMMIGRATION..................................

216,000

DEFENCE AND WAR (1939–45) SERVICES—

£

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENCE......................

197,000

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY.....................

31,815,000

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY.....................

174,757,000

DEPARTMENT OF AIR...........................

86,208,000

DEPARTMENT OF MUNITIONS....................

7,432,000

DEPARTMENT OF AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION..........

4,724,000

DEPARTMENT OF SUPPLY AND SHIPPING............

8,326,000

DEPARTMENT OF HOME SECURITY................

60,000

RECIPROCAL LEND-LEASE TO UNITED STATES FORCES

20,000,000

MISCELLANEOUS CREDITS.......................

Cr.25,000,000

OTHER WAR SERVICES..........................

44,549,000

OTHER ADMINISTRATIONS — RECOVERABLE EXPENDITURE

Cr.20,000,000

CREDITS FROM DISPOSALS COMMISSION...........

Cr.28,000,000

305,068,000

Less AMOUNT CHARGEABLE TO LOAN FUND

152,106,000

152,962,000

MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES......................................

1,007,000

REFUNDS OF REVENUE.........................................

5,000,000

ADVANCE TO THE TREASURER...................................

10,000,000

WAR (1914–18) SERVICES........................................

929,000

TOTAL PART 1.............................

178,399,000

PART 2.—BUSINESS UNDERTAKINGS.

COMMONWEALTH RAILWAYS....................................

2,120,000

POSTMASTFR-GENERAL’S DEPARTMENT............................

20,899,000

TOTAL PART 2.............................

23,019,000

PART 3.—TERRITORIES OF THE COMMONWEALTH.

NORTHERN TERRITORY.........................................

316,300

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY................................

507,700

NORFOLK ISLAND.............................................

4,000

TOTAL PART 3.............................

828,000

TOTAL...................................

202,246,000

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