{"id":"C2004A02718","name":"Appropriation Act (No. 3) 1982-83","slug":"appropriation-act-no-3-1982-83","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"1 of 1983","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":25847,"registerId":"commonwealth-C2004A02718-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-01","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Appropriation Act (No. 3) 1982-83","content":"![](image.001.png)\n\nAppropriation Act (No. 3) 1982‑83\n\nNo. 1 of 1983\n\n![](image.003.png)![](image.002.png)An Act to appropriate a sum out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, additional to the sum appropriated by the Appropriation Act (No. 1) 1982‑83, for the service of the year ending on 30 June 1983\n\n\\[Assented to 27 April 1983\\]\n\nBE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:\n\nShort title\n\n1. This Act may be cited as the Appropriation Act (No. 3) 1982‑83.\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 $211,338,000\n\n3. The Minister for Finance may issue out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund and apply for the services specified in the Schedule, in respect of the year ending on 30 June 1983, the sum of $211,338,000.\n\n12265/83 Cat. No. 83 4253 5 Recommended retail price 40c\n\n \n\nAppropriation\n\n4. The sum authorized by this Act to be issued out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund is appropriated, and shall be deemed to have been appropriated as from 1 July 1982, for the services specified in the Schedule in respect of the financial year that commenced on that date.\n\nAdditional appropriation in respect of increases in salaries\n\n5. Section 5 of the Appropriation Act (No. 1) 1982‑83 has effect, on and from the commencement of this Act, as if the reference in that section to Schedule 2 to that Act included a reference to the Schedule to this Act.\n\nAct subject to Loan Act\n\n6. This Act has effect subject to the Loan Act (No. 2) 1982.\n\n![](image.004.png)![](image.004.png) \n\nSCHEDULE Section 4\n\nABSTRACT\n\n| Page Reference | Departments and Services | Total |\n| -------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------- |\n| | | $ |\n| 4 | Attorney‑General's Department.......................... | 12,596,000 |\n| 4 | Department of Defence...................................... | 18,086,000 |\n| 5 | Department of Defence Support................................ | 8,906,000 |\n| 5 | Department of Education and Youth Affairs........................ | 20,515,000 |\n| 6 | Department of Employment and Industrial Relations.................. | 5,140,000 |\n| 6 | Advance to the Minister for Finance............................. | 50,000,000 |\n| 7 | Department of Foreign Affairs................................. | 10,000,000 |\n| 7 | Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs...................... | 4,900,000 |\n| 7 | Department of the Special Minister of State........................ | 18,141,000 |\n| 8 | Department of Transport..................................... | 34,500,000 |\n| 8 | Department of Veterans' Affairs................................ | 28,554,000 |\n| | Total............................................. | 211,338,000 |\n\n \n\n```html\n

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Additional appropriation for 1982‑83

Appropriation made by Appropriation Act (No. 1) 1982‑83

Expenditure for 1981‑82

$

$

$

ATTORNEY‑GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT

Division 175.—AUSTRALIAN LEGAL AID OFFICE

2.—Administrative Expenses—

07. Private legal practitioners—Payment in respect of Legal Aid Services

2,739,000

7,971,000

9,209,984

08. Legal Aid Commissions—Reimbursements for legal aid provided in the Federal area in accordance with agreements between the Commonwealth and the States and between the Commonwealth and the Northern Territory

9,857,000

22,830,400

17,091,200

Total: Division 175

12,596,000

Total: Attorney‑General's Department..

12,596,000

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENCE

Division 233.—ADMINISTRATIVE AND OTHER EXPENDITURE

1.—Administrative Expenses—

04. Fuel, light, power, water supply and sanitation....

14,615,000

52,494,000

48,806,034

08. Personal injury and damage to property‑Compensation

3,471,000

1,743,000

3,428,691

Total: Division 233

18,086,000

Total: Department of Defence..............

18,086,000

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Appropriation made by Appropriation Act (No. 1) 1982‑83

Expenditure for 1981‑82

$

$

$

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENCE SUPPORT

Division 263.—ADMINISTRATIVE

2.—Administrative Expenses—

06. Fuel, light, power, water supply and sanitation....

2,302,000

2,556,000

2,771,681

Division 264.—DEFENCE INDUSTRIAL CAPACITY

1.—Maintenance of Production Capability—

01. Munitions Industry......................

6,604,000

57,800,000

56,892,937

Total: Department of Defence Support............

8,906,000

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND YOUTH AFFAIRS

Division 270.—ADMINISTRATIVE

4.—Student Assistance Programs—

02. Tertiary students........................

6,511,000

179,311,500

169,434,160

03. Secondary students......................

6,559,000

22,612,000

15,558,810

Total: Division 270

13,070,000

Division 279.—THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

1.—Running Expenses—Supplementary grant......

7,445,000

112,024,700

112,108,506

Total: Department of Education and Youth Affairs

20,515,000

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Appropriation made by Appropriation Act (No. 1) 1982‑83

Expenditure for 1981‑82

DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS

$

$

$

Division 287.—ADMINISTRATIVE

4.—Trade Training—

02. Special apprentice training schemes...........

5,140,000

5,000,000

3,359,583

Total: Department of Employment and Industrial Relations

5,140,000

ADVANCE TO THE MINISTER FOR FINANCE

Division 310.—ADVANCE TO THE MINISTER FOR FINANCE

To enable the Minister for Finance—

(a) to make advances that will be. recovered during the financial year, in respect of expenditure that is expenditure for the ordinary annual services of the Government;

(b) to make moneys available for expenditure—

(i) that the Minister for Finance is satisfied is expenditure that is urgently required and that was unforeseen until after the last day on which it was practicable to include appropriation for that expenditure in the Bill for the Appropriation Act (No. 1) 1982‑83 before the introduction of that Bill into the House of Representatives; and

(ii) particulars of which will afterwards be submitted to the Parliament,

being expenditure for the ordinary annual services of the Government; and

(c) to make moneys available for expenditure, being expenditure for the ordinary annual services of the Government, pending the issue of a warrant of the Governor‑General specifically applicable to the expenditure

50,000,000

125,000,000

*

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Additional appropriation for 1982‑83

Appropriation made by Appropriation Act (No. 1) 1982‑83

Expenditure for 1981‑82

$

$

$

DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Division 318.—AUSTRALIAN DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE BUREAU

9.—Emergency Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief

10,000,000

8,855,000

10,185,078

Total: Department of Foreign Affairs.........

10,000,000

DEPARTMENT OF IMMIGRATION AND ETHNIC AFFAIRS

Division 360.—ADMINISTRATIVE

5.—Adult Migrant Education Services—

01. For expenditure under the Immigration (Education) Act 1971

4,900,000

34,200,000

32,241,697

Total: Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs

4,900,000

DEPARTMENT OF THE SPECIAL MINISTER OF STATE

Division 161.—AUSTRALIAN ELECTORAL OFFICE

(Function previously performed by the Department of Administrative Services)

2.—Administrative Expenses—

06. Conduct of Commonwealth elections, referendums and industrial ballots

18,141,000

955,000

601,278

Total: Department of the Special Minister of State

18,141,000

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Appropriation made by Appropriation Act (No. 1) 1982‑83

Expenditure for 1981‑82

$

$

$

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT

Division 668. AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL RAILWAYS COMMISSION

1.—Subsidy to meet anticipated operating losses.....

34,500,000

71,500,000

70,400,000

Total: Department of Transport.............

34,500,000

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS' AFFAIRS

Division 692. OTHER REPATRIATION BENEFITS

01. Specialists, local medical officer and ancillary medical services

8,707,000

87,839,000

85,606,022

03. Maintenance of patients in non‑departmental institutions

19,847,000

94,884,000

86,156,500

Total: Division 692

28,554,000

Total: Department of Veterans' Affairs........

28,554,000

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