{"id":"C2004A00787","name":"Appropriation Act (No. 3) 2000-2001","slug":"appropriation-act-no-3-2000-2001","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"20 of 2001","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":6161,"registerId":"commonwealth-C2004A00787-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-03-30","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Appropriation Act (No. 3) 2000-2001","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\n---\n\n?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"no\"?>\n\n![](image.001.png)\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\nAppropriation Act (No. 3) 2000‑2001\n\n \n\nNo. 20, 2001\n\n![](image.001.png)\n\nAppropriation Act (No. 3) 2000-2001\n\nNo. 20, 2001\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\nAn Act to appropriate additional money out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the ordinary annual services of the Government, and for related purposes\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\nContents\n\nPart 1—Preliminary\n\n1 Short title...................................\n\n2 Commencement...............................\n\n3 Definitions..................................\n\n4 Portfolio Budget Statements and Portfolio Additional Estimates Statements             \n\n5 Notional payments, receipts etc.......................\n\nPart 2—Basic appropriations\n\n6 Summary of basic appropriations.....................\n\n7 Departmental items—basic appropriation................\n\n8 Administered items—basic appropriation................\n\nPart 3—Additions to basic appropriations\n\n9 Net appropriations..............................\n\n10 Departmental items—adjustments.....................\n\n11 Advance to the Finance Minister—unforeseen expenditure etc....\n\n12 Comcover receipts..............................\n\nPart 4—Miscellaneous\n\n13 Crediting amounts to Special Accounts..................\n\n14 Appropriation of the Consolidated Revenue Fund...........\n\nSchedule—Services for which money is appropriated\n\n \n\n![](image.001.png)\n\nAppropriation Act (No. 3) 2000-2001\n\nNo. 20, 2001\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\nAn Act to appropriate additional money out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the ordinary annual services of the Government, and for related purposes\n\n[Assented to 6 April 2001]\n\nThe Parliament of Australia enacts:\n\n## Part 1—Preliminary\n\n \n\n##### 1  Short title\n\n  This Act may be cited as the Appropriation Act (No. 3) 2000‑2001.\n\n##### 2  Commencement\n\n  This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.\n\n##### 3  Definitions\n\n  In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:\n\nadministered item means an amount set out in the Schedule opposite an outcome of an entity under the heading “Administered Expenses”.\n\nAgency has the same meaning as in the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997.\n\nAgency Minister, in relation to an Agency, means the Minister responsible for the Agency.\n\nChief Executive has the same meaning as in the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997.\n\nCommonwealth authority has the same meaning as in the Commonwealth Authorities and Companies Act 1997.\n\nCommonwealth company has the same meaning as in the Commonwealth Authorities and Companies Act 1997.\n\ncurrent year means the financial year ending on 30 June 2001.\n\ndepartmental item means the total amount set out in the Schedule in relation to an entity under the heading “Departmental Outputs”.\n\nNote: The amounts set out opposite outcomes, under the heading “Departmental Outputs”, are “notional”. They are not part of the item, and do not in any way restrict the scope of the expenditure authorised by the item.\n\nentity means any of the following:\n\n (a) an Agency;\n\n (b) a Commonwealth authority;\n\n (c) a Commonwealth company.\n\nexpenditure means payments for expenses, acquiring assets, making loans or paying liabilities.\n\nFinance Minister means the Minister administering this Act.\n\nitem means an administered item or a departmental item.\n\nPortfolio Additional Estimates Statements means the Portfolio Additional Estimates Statements that were tabled in the Senate or the House of Representatives in relation to the Bill for this Act and the Bill for the Appropriation Act (No. 4) 2000‑2001.\n\nPortfolio Budget Statements means the Portfolio Budget Statements that were tabled in the Senate or the House of Representatives in relation to the Bill for the Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2000‑2001 and the Bill for the Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2000‑2001.\n\nsection 31 agreement means an agreement under section 31 of the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997.\n\nSpecial Account has the same meaning as in the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997.\n\n##### 4  Portfolio Budget Statements and Portfolio Additional Estimates Statements\n\n (1) The Portfolio Budget Statements and Portfolio Additional Estimates Statements are hereby declared to be relevant documents for the purposes of section 15AB of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901.\n\nNote: See paragraph 15AB(2)(g) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901.\n\n (2) If the Portfolio Budget Statements or Portfolio Additional Estimates Statements indicate that activities of a particular kind were intended to be treated as activities in respect of a particular outcome, then expenditure for the purpose of carrying out those activities is taken to be expenditure for the purpose of contributing to achieving the outcome.\n\n##### 5  Notional payments, receipts etc.\n\n  For the purposes of this Act, notional transactions between Agencies are to be treated as if they were real transactions.\n\nNote: This section applies, for example, to a “payment” between Agencies that are both part of the Commonwealth. One of the effects of this section is that the payment will be debited from an appropriation for the paying Agency, even though no payment is actually made from the Consolidated Revenue Fund.\n\n\n\n\n## Part 2—Basic appropriations\n\n \n\n##### 6  Summary of basic appropriations\n\n  The total of the items specified in the Schedule is $1,879,240,000.\n\nNote 1: Items in the Schedule can be increased under Part 3 of this Act and under section 12 of the Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2000‑2001 (as modified by section 12 of this Act).\n\nNote 2: See also section 30A of the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997, which provides for adjustment of appropriations to take account of GST.\n\n##### 7  Departmental items—basic appropriation\n\n (1) For a departmental item for an entity, the Finance Minister may issue out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund amounts that do not exceed, in total, the amount specified in the item.\n\nNote: Generally, the Finance Minister is permitted, but not obliged, to issue the amounts out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund. However, subsections (3) and (4) impose an obligation on the Finance Minister to issue the amounts in certain circumstances.\n\n (2) An amount issued out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for a departmental item for an entity may only be applied for the departmental expenditure of the entity.\n\nNote: The acquisition of new departmental assets will usually be funded from a departmental capital item (in another Appropriation Act).\n\n (3) If:\n\n (a) an Act provides that an entity must be paid amounts that are appropriated by the Parliament for the purposes of the entity; and\n\n (b) the Schedule contains a departmental item for that entity;\n\nthen the Finance Minister, under subsection (1), must issue out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund the full amount specified in the item.\n\n (4) If a departmental item for an Agency includes provision for payment of remuneration and allowances to the holder of:\n\n (a) a public office (within the meaning of the Remuneration Tribunal Act 1973); or\n\n (b) an office specified in a Schedule to the Remuneration and Allowances Act 1990;\n\nthen the Finance Minister, under subsection (1), must issue out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, under that item, amounts that are sufficient to pay the remuneration and allowances and must apply the amounts for that purpose.\n\n##### 8  Administered items—basic appropriation\n\n (1) For an administered item for an outcome of an entity, the Finance Minister may issue out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund amounts that do not exceed, in total, the lesser of:\n\n (a) the amount specified in the item; and\n\n (b) the amount determined by the Finance Minister in relation to the item, having regard to the expenses incurred by the entity in the current year in relation to the item.\n\n (2) An amount issued out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for an administered item for an outcome of an entity may only be applied for expenditure for the purpose of carrying out activities for the purpose of contributing to achieving that outcome.\n\nNote: The acquisition of new administered assets will usually be funded from an administered capital item (in another Appropriation Act).\n\n\n\n\n## Part 3—Additions to basic appropriations\n\n \n\n##### 9  Net appropriations\n\n (1) If a section 31 agreement applies to a departmental item, then the amount specified in the item is taken to be increased in accordance with the agreement, and on the conditions set out in the agreement. The increase cannot be more than the relevant receipts covered by the agreement.\n\n (2) For the purposes of section 31 of the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997, each departmental item is taken to be marked “net appropriation”.\n\n##### 10  Departmental items—adjustments\n\n (1) The Finance Minister may determine that the amount specified in a departmental item is to be increased by an amount specified in the determination.\n\n (2) The total of the amounts determined by the Finance Minister:\n\n (a) under this section; and\n\n (b) under section 10 of the Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2000‑2001;\n\ncannot be more than $20 million.\n\n (3) The Finance Minister must give the Parliament details of increases made under this section.\n\n##### 11  Advance to the Finance Minister—unforeseen expenditure etc.\n\n (1) This section applies if the Finance Minister is satisfied that:\n\n (a) there is an urgent need for expenditure that is not provided for, or is insufficiently provided for, in the Schedule; and\n\n (b) the additional expenditure is not provided for, or is insufficiently provided for, in the Schedule:\n\n (i) because of an erroneous omission or understatement; or\n\n (ii) because the additional expenditure was unforeseen until after the last day on which it was practicable to provide for it in the Bill for this Act before that Bill was introduced into the House of Representatives.\n\n (2) This Act has effect as if the Schedule were amended, in accordance with a determination of the Finance Minister, to make provision for so much (if any) of the additional expenditure as the Finance Minister determines.\n\n (3) The total of the amounts determined by the Finance Minister:\n\n (a) under this section; and\n\n (b) under section 11 of the Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2000‑2001;\n\ncannot be more than $175 million.\n\n (4) The Finance Minister must give the Parliament details of amounts determined under this section.\n\n##### 12  Comcover receipts\n\n  After the commencement of this Act, section 12 of the Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2000‑2001 has effect as if the reference to an available item included a reference to:\n\n (a) an item in the Schedule to this Act; and\n\n (b) an item in Schedule 2 to the Appropriation Act (No. 4) 2000‑2001.\n\nNote: Section 12 of the Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2000‑2001 provides for amounts to be added to available items for an Agency in respect of Comcover payments to the Agency.\n\n\n\n\n## Part 4—Miscellaneous\n\n \n\n##### 13  Crediting amounts to Special Accounts\n\n  If any of the purposes of a Special Account is a purpose that is covered by an item (whether or not the item expressly refers to the Special Account), then amounts may be debited against the appropriation for that item and credited to that Special Account.\n\n##### 14  Appropriation of the Consolidated Revenue Fund\n\n  The Consolidated Revenue Fund is appropriated as necessary for the purposes of this Act.\n\n###### Schedule—Services for which money is appropriated\n\n \n\n![](image.002.png)  Note:  See Sections 6 and 14\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\nDepartments and Services\n\n \n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nSummary\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\n![](image.003.png)\n\n\nAgriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Portfolio\n\nSummary\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\n![](image.004.png)\n\n\nAgriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Portfolio\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\nActual Available Appropriation (light figures) – 1999-2000\n\n![](image.005.png)\n\n\nAttorney-General’s Portfolio\n\nSummary\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\n![](image.006.png)\n\n\nAttorney-General’s Portfolio\n\nSummary\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\n![](image.007.png)\n\n\nAttorney-General’s Portfolio\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\nActual Available Appropriation (light figures) – 1999-2000\n\n![](image.008.png)\n\n\nAttorney-General’s Portfolio\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\nActual Available Appropriation (light figures) – 1999-2000\n\n![](image.009.png)\n\n\nAttorney-General’s Portfolio\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\nActual Available Appropriation (light figures) – 1999-2000\n\n![](image.010.png)\n\n\nAttorney-General’s Portfolio\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\nActual Available Appropriation (light figures) – 1999-2000\n\n![](image.011.png)\n\n\nAttorney-General’s Portfolio\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\nActual Available Appropriation (light figures) – 1999-2000\n\n![](image.012.png)\n\n\nAttorney-General’s Portfolio\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\nActual Available Appropriation (light figures) – 1999-2000\n\n![](image.013.png)\n\n\nAttorney-General’s Portfolio\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\nActual Available Appropriation (light figures) – 1999-2000\n\n![](image.014.png)\n\n\nCommunications, Information Technology and the Arts Portfolio\n\nSummary\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\n![](image.015.png)\n\n\nCommunications, Information Technology and the Arts Portfolio\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\nActual Available Appropriation (light figures) – 1999-2000\n\n![](image.016.png)\n\n\nCommunications, Information Technology and the Arts Portfolio\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\nActual Available Appropriation (light figures) – 1999-2000\n\n![](image.017.png)\n\n\nCommunications, Information Technology and the Arts Portfolio\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\nActual Available Appropriation (light figures) – 1999-2000\n\n![](image.018.png)\n\n\nCommunications, Information Technology and the Arts Portfolio\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\nActual Available Appropriation (light figures) – 1999-2000\n\n![](image.019.png)\n\n\nCommunications, Information Technology and the Arts Portfolio\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\nActual Available Appropriation (light figures) – 1999-2000\n\n![](image.020.png)\n\n\nCommunications, Information Technology and the Arts Portfolio\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\nActual Available Appropriation (light figures) – 1999-2000\n\n![](image.021.png)\n\n\nDefence Portfolio\n\nSummary\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\n![](image.022.png)\n\n\nDefence Portfolio\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\nActual Available Appropriation (light figures) – 1999-2000\n\n![](image.023.png)\n\n\nVeterans' Affairs Portfolio\n\nSummary\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\n![](image.024.png)\n\n\nVeterans' Affairs Portfolio\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\nActual Available Appropriation (light figures) – 1999-2000\n\n![](image.025.png)\n\n\nEducation, Training and Youth Affairs Portfolio\n\nSummary\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\n![](image.026.png)\n\n\nEducation, Training and Youth Affairs Portfolio\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\nActual Available Appropriation (light figures) – 1999-2000\n\n![](image.027.png)\n\n\nEmployment, Workplace Relations and Small Business Portfolio\n\nSummary\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\n![](image.028.png)\n\n\nEmployment, Workplace Relations and Small Business Portfolio\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\nActual Available Appropriation (light figures) – 1999-2000\n\n![](image.029.png)\n\n\nEnvironment and Heritage Portfolio\n\nSummary\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\n![](image.030.png)\n\n\nEnvironment and Heritage Portfolio\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\nActual Available Appropriation (light figures) – 1999-2000\n\n![](image.031.png)\n\n\nEnvironment and Heritage Portfolio\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\nActual Available Appropriation (light figures) – 1999-2000\n\n![](image.032.png)\n\n\nFamily and Community Services Portfolio\n\nSummary\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\n![](image.033.png)\n\n\nFamily and Community Services Portfolio\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\nActual Available Appropriation (light figures) – 1999-2000\n\n![](image.034.png)\n\n\nFinance and Administration Portfolio\n\nSummary\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\n![](image.035.png)\n\n\nFinance and Administration Portfolio\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\nActual Available Appropriation (light figures) – 1999-2000\n\n![](image.036.png)\n\n\nFinance and Administration Portfolio\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\nActual Available Appropriation (light figures) – 1999-2000\n\n![](image.037.png)\n\n\nForeign Affairs and Trade Portfolio\n\nSummary\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\n![](image.038.png)\n\n\nForeign Affairs and Trade Portfolio\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\nActual Available Appropriation (light figures) – 1999-2000\n\n![](image.039.png)\n\n\nForeign Affairs and Trade Portfolio\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\nActual Available Appropriation (light figures) – 1999-2000\n\n![](image.040.png)\n\n\nForeign Affairs and Trade Portfolio\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\nActual Available Appropriation (light figures) – 1999-2000\n\n![](image.041.png)\n\n\nForeign Affairs and Trade Portfolio\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\nActual Available Appropriation (light figures) – 1999-2000\n\n![](image.042.png)\n\n\nHealth and Aged Care Portfolio\n\nSummary\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\n![](image.043.png)\n\n\nHealth and Aged Care Portfolio\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\nActual Available Appropriation (light figures) – 1999-2000\n\n![](image.044.png)\n\n\nHealth and Aged Care Portfolio\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\nActual Available Appropriation (light figures) – 1999-2000\n\n![](image.045.png)\n\n\nImmigration and Multicultural Affairs Portfolio\n\nSummary\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\n![](image.046.png)\n\n\nImmigration and Multicultural Affairs Portfolio\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\nActual Available Appropriation (light figures) – 1999-2000\n\n![](image.047.png)\n\n\nImmigration and Multicultural Affairs Portfolio\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\nActual Available Appropriation (light figures) – 1999-2000\n\n![](image.048.png)\n\n\nImmigration and Multicultural Affairs Portfolio\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\nActual Available Appropriation (light figures) – 1999-2000\n\n![](image.049.png)\n\n\nIndustry, Science and Resources Portfolio\n\nSummary\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\n![](image.050.png)\n\n\nIndustry, Science and Resources Portfolio\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\nActual Available Appropriation (light figures) – 1999-2000\n\n![](image.051.png)\n\n\nIndustry, Science and Resources Portfolio\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\nActual Available Appropriation (light figures) – 1999-2000\n\n![](image.052.png)\n\n\nIndustry, Science and Resources Portfolio\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\nActual Available Appropriation (light figures) – 1999-2000\n\n![](image.053.png)\n\n\nIndustry, Science and Resources Portfolio\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\nActual Available Appropriation (light figures) – 1999-2000\n\n![](image.054.png)\n\n\nIndustry, Science and Resources Portfolio\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\nActual Available Appropriation (light figures) – 1999-2000\n\n![](image.055.png)\n\n\nIndustry, Science and Resources Portfolio\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\nActual Available Appropriation (light figures) – 1999-2000\n\n![](image.056.png)\n\n\nPrime Minister and Cabinet Portfolio\n\nSummary\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\n![](image.057.png)\n\n\nPrime Minister and Cabinet Portfolio\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\nActual Available Appropriation (light figures) – 1999-2000\n\n![](image.058.png)\n\n\nPrime Minister and Cabinet Portfolio\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\nActual Available Appropriation (light figures) – 1999-2000\n\n![](image.059.png)\n\n\nTransport and Regional Services Portfolio\n\nSummary\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\n![](image.060.png)\n\n\nTransport and Regional Services Portfolio\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\nActual Available Appropriation (light figures) – 1999-2000\n\n![](image.061.png)\n\n\nTransport and Regional Services Portfolio\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\nActual Available Appropriation (light figures) – 1999-2000\n\n![](image.062.png)\n\n\nTransport and Regional Services Portfolio\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\nActual Available Appropriation (light figures) – 1999-2000\n\n![](image.063.png)\n\n\nTreasury Portfolio\n\nSummary\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\n![](image.064.png)\n\n\nTreasury Portfolio\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\nActual Available Appropriation (light figures) – 1999-2000\n\n![](image.065.png)\n\n\nTreasury Portfolio\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\nActual Available Appropriation (light figures) – 1999-2000\n\n![](image.066.png)\n\n\nTreasury Portfolio\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\nActual Available Appropriation (light figures) – 1999-2000\n\n![](image.067.png)\n\n\nTreasury Portfolio\n\nAdditional Appropriation (bold figures) – 2000-2001\n\nBudget Appropriation (italic figures) – 2000-2001\n\nActual Available Appropriation (light figures) – 1999-2000\n\n![](image.068.png)\n\n \n\n[Minister’s second reading speech made in—\n\nHouse of Representatives on 29 November 2000\n\nSenate on 26 March 2001]\n\n \n\n(181/99)\n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[{"type":"retroactive_impossibility","section":"Section 2 (Commencement)","severity":"medium","reasoning":"An Appropriation Act that commences on Royal Assent but purports to fund activities for a financial year that is already 75% complete creates a structural impossibility: agencies nominally had authority to spend money for the prior nine months only retrospectively. While this is a known and accepted quirk of the supplementary estimates process, it means that a large portion of the expenditure the Act validates was incurred before the appropriation legally existed, inverting the constitutional requirement that money not be drawn from the Consolidated Revenue Fund without parliamentary authority.","confidence":0.72,"description":"Appropriation Acts of this era routinely commenced on Royal Assent but appropriated money for a financial year already well underway — in this case the 2000-2001 year. By the time this Act (No. 3) received Royal Assent in early April 2001, fewer than three months of the financial year remained, meaning any newly appropriated funds had to be spent before 30 June 2001 or lapse."},{"type":"self_contradicting","section":"Section 11 (Advance to the Finance Minister — unforeseen expenditure etc.)","severity":"medium","reasoning":"The statutory concept of 'unforeseen expenditure' implies genuine surprise. However, by the time a third appropriation bill is introduced, the Budget cycle has already produced two prior Acts, a Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook, and detailed Additional Estimates Statements. The Finance Minister's Advance in this Act is therefore an advance for expenditure that is, by definition, foreseen — yet the statutory trigger for using it remains 'unforeseen'. This creates a logical tension: agencies must certify unforeseeable need to access a fund that Parliament has already foreseen and specifically appropriated.","confidence":0.65,"description":"The section provides an advance to the Finance Minister for 'unforeseen' expenditure, but in an Appropriation Act (No. 3) tabled in April of a financial year ending June, virtually any expenditure requiring supplementary appropriation was already foreseen, negotiated, and documented in the Portfolio Additional Estimates Statements referred to in section 4. Funding 'unforeseen' events through a mechanism embedded in a document that was fully planned months in advance is self-contradicting."},{"type":"other","section":"Section 4 (Portfolio Budget Statements and Portfolio Additional Estimates Statements)","severity":"medium","reasoning":"Parliamentary appropriations derive their constitutional significance from being authorised by the legislature. Tying the operative meaning of Schedule items to executive documents that are not themselves subject to parliamentary amendment creates a situation where the legal scope of an appropriation is controlled by the very branch of government the appropriation is meant to constrain. This is not strictly circular (the Act does not define itself by reference to itself) but it is a delegation of legislative meaning to executive discretion, which is structurally problematic.","confidence":0.7,"description":"Section 4 uses the Portfolio Budget Statements and Portfolio Additional Estimates Statements as interpretive aids to give meaning to items in the Schedule. However, those documents are executive-branch publications with no legal force of their own, meaning the Act delegates the legal meaning of its own appropriation items to non-legislative documents that can be revised, corrected, or reissued without parliamentary approval — effectively allowing the executive to redefine the scope of parliamentary appropriations after the fact."},{"type":"other","section":"Section 9 (Net appropriations)","severity":"medium","reasoning":"The constitutional requirement for parliamentary appropriation of public money is designed to fix a specific, approved amount. A net appropriation mechanism that automatically augments the base appropriation by the value of receipts collected during the year means Parliament has not actually approved a definite sum — it has approved a variable formula. The final figure is determined by administrative outcomes (how much revenue agencies raise) rather than by parliamentary decision, undermining the transparency and accountability purpose of appropriation law.","confidence":0.68,"description":"A 'net appropriation' provision allows an agency's appropriation to increase automatically when the agency receives certain receipts, without any further parliamentary vote. This means the Act contains an open-ended, self-expanding appropriation whose final quantum is unknowable at the time of enactment — Parliament is voting on a number that will change based on executive activity occurring after the vote."}],"contradictions":[{"severity":"medium","section_a":"Section 4 (Portfolio Budget Statements and Portfolio Additional Estimates Statements)","section_b":"Section 14 (Appropriation of the Consolidated Revenue Fund) read with the Schedule","confidence":0.72,"description":"Section 4 makes the PBS and PAES documents interpretive aids that shape what Schedule items mean, while section 14 and the Schedule purport to be the definitive, legally operative appropriation. If the Schedule is the binding instrument, the PBS/PAES should be irrelevant to its legal meaning. If the PBS/PAES control meaning, the Schedule amounts are merely illustrative. The Act cannot coherently have both: a definitive legislative Schedule whose meaning is simultaneously controlled by non-legislative executive documents."},{"severity":"high","section_a":"Section 11 (Advance to the Finance Minister — unforeseen expenditure etc.)","section_b":"Section 6 (Summary of basic appropriations) read with the Schedule","confidence":0.75,"description":"Section 6 and the Schedule set out fixed, itemised appropriations for specified services, reflecting the principle that Parliament controls the detail of expenditure. Section 11 then gives the Finance Minister an advance that can be applied to any purpose to meet unforeseen needs, bypassing the itemised structure of the Schedule entirely. This creates a direct tension: the Schedule imposes item-level parliamentary control, while section 11 grants the executive open-ended flexibility to circumvent that control — both within the same Act."},{"severity":"medium","section_a":"Section 9 (Net appropriations)","section_b":"Section 7 (Departmental items — basic appropriation)","confidence":0.67,"description":"Section 7 appropriates a fixed amount for departmental items as approved by Parliament. Section 9 then allows that fixed amount to be increased by receipts collected by the department, without further parliamentary sanction. The two sections operate on fundamentally inconsistent premises: section 7 treats the appropriation as a parliamentary decision fixing a ceiling, while section 9 treats it as a base figure subject to unlimited executive augmentation through receipt collection activity."},{"severity":"medium","section_a":"Section 5 (Notional payments, receipts etc.)","section_b":"Section 14 (Appropriation of the Consolidated Revenue Fund)","confidence":0.63,"description":"Section 14 appropriates real money from the Consolidated Revenue Fund for real government services. Section 5 introduces 'notional' payments and receipts — transactions that are recorded as if money moved but where no actual funds are drawn or deposited. The Act therefore simultaneously operates on two incompatible financial realities: genuine CRF appropriations governed by constitutional money rules, and fictional accounting entries with no real-world financial effect. The legal status of 'notional' transactions under a constitutional appropriation framework is inherently contradictory, as the Constitution's appropriation requirement presupposes actual public money."}]},"summary":{"complexity_score":4,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This Act stays squarely within its original and conventional purpose: authorising supplementary Commonwealth expenditure mid-financial year. It follows the standard structure of Australian federal appropriation legislation and introduces no novel powers, new regulatory regimes, or expansions beyond the traditional appropriation function. The Advance to the Finance Minister and net appropriations provisions are standing features of this class of legislation, not scope expansions."},"complexity_factors":["Relatively short Act with only 14 sections across 4 parts","Small number of defined terms in section 3 (typical appropriation Act vocabulary: 'administered item', 'departmental item', 'Portfolio Budget Statements', etc.)","Cross-references to the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997 and existing appropriation framework, requiring readers to consult external legislation","Conditional logic around net appropriations (section 9) — agency receipts can adjust base appropriation amounts under specific conditions","Advance to the Finance Minister provision (section 11) includes discretionary and conditional trigger requirements (unforeseen/urgent expenditure)","Comcover receipts mechanism (section 12) adds a non-obvious insurance-offset layer that cross-references a separate Commonwealth insurance scheme","Schedule of appropriations is the operative spending detail but is not reproduced in the table of contents in any granular form, obscuring the actual scope of spending"],"plain_english_summary":"This Act is a mid‑year “top‑up” that authorises additional Commonwealth spending for 2000–01 beyond the main Budget, giving departments and agencies legal authority to incur extra expenditure and manage related receipts. \n\nIt matters because it preserves Parliament’s control of the public purse and makes transparent which extra services, payments or agency operations are being funded mid‑year."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/appropriation-act-no-3-2000-2001","history":"/api/acts/appropriation-act-no-3-2000-2001/history","analysis":"/api/acts/appropriation-act-no-3-2000-2001/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/appropriation-act-no-3-2000-2001/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/appropriation-act-no-3-2000-2001/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/appropriation-act-no-3-2000-2001/documents"}}