{"id":"C2004A03635","name":"Appropriation Act (No. 4) 1987-88","slug":"appropriation-act-no-4-1987-88","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"42 of 1988","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":7628,"registerId":"commonwealth-C2004A03635-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-03-30","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Appropriation Act (No. 4) 1987-88","content":"![Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia](image.001.png)\n\nAppropriation Act (No. 4) 1987-88\n\nNo. 42 of 1988\n\nAn Act to appropriate a sum out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, additional to the sum appropriated by the Appropriation Act (No. 2) 1987-88, for certain expenditure in respect of the year ending on 30 June 1988, and for other purposes\n\n\\[Assented to 3 June 1988\\]\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. 4) 1987-88.\n\nCommencement\n\n2. This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.\n\nIssue and application of $153,440,000\n\n3. The Minister for Finance may issue out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund and apply for the services specified in Schedule 2, in respect of the year ending on 30 June 1988, the sum of $153,440,000.\n\nAppropriation\n\n4. The sum authorised by this Act to be issued out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund is appropriated, and shall be deemed to have been\n\n13490/88 Cat. No. 88 4648 9\n\n \nappropriated as from 1 July 1987, for the services specified in Schedule 2 in respect of the financial year that commenced on that date.\n\nPayments to States and Northern Territory, &c.\n\n5. (1) In this section and in determinations for the purposes of paragraph (2) (a) or (b):\n\n“Appropriation Act” means an Act appropriating money for expenditure in respect of a financial year and includes an Act appropriating money, by way of interim provision, for such expenditure;\n\n“person” includes:\n\n(a) a State;\n\n(b) a Territory;\n\n(c) a local government body; and\n\n(d) an organisation.\n\n(2) Payments out of such of the money appropriated by this Act as is specified in the Division, or unit of a Division, in Schedule 2 specified in column 2 in an item in Schedule 1 made to or for a person for a purpose specified in column 3 in that item shall be made:\n\n(a) on such terms and conditions (if any) as are from time to time determined, by instrument in writing, for the purposes of Appropriation Acts by the Minister specified in column 4 in that item as being terms and conditions applicable to payments under such Acts to or for that person for that purpose; and\n\n(b) in accordance with any determinations, by instrument in writing, of the Minister specified in column 5 in that item as to the amounts and times of payments.\n\nMoney appropriated for a program\n\n6. Where money is appropriated by this Act for a particular program, that money shall be taken to be appropriated for:\n\n(a) the purpose of payments (including advances) under Acts administered as part of the program; and\n\n(b) other purposes of the program, being purposes for which appropriation has been made in an earlier Act.\n\nNational Heart and Liver Transplant Centres\n\n7. The Appropriation Act (No. 2) 1987-88 has effect, and shall be taken to have had effect at all times after its commencement, as if the reference in item 13 of Division 831 in Schedule 4 to that Act to “National Centre for Liver Transplantation—Contribution” were a reference to “National Heart (Heart/Lung) and Liver Transplant Centres—Contribution”.\n\nAustralian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics\n\n8. The Appropriation Act (No. 2) 1987-88 has effect, and shall be taken to have had effect at all times after its commencement, as if the reference in item 1 of subdivision 1 of Division 930 in Schedule 4 to that Act to\n\n \n“Bureau of Agricultural Economics” included a reference to “Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics”.\n\nMurray-Darling Basin Commission\n\n9\\. The Appropriation Act (No. 2) 1987-88 has effect, and shall be taken to have had effect at all times after its commencement, as if the reference in subdivision 3 of Division 930 in Schedule 4 to that Act to “River Murray Commission” included a reference to “Murray-Darling Basin Commission”.\n\n![](image.002.png) \nSCHEDULE 1 Section 5\n\n| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 | Column 4 | Column 5 |\n| -------- | ------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------ |\n| Item | Division, &c. | Purpose | Minister determining conditions | Minister determining payments |\n| 3 | Sub-division 1 of Division 931 | Assistance to users of fertilisers—being fertilisers subject to dumping duties, agras and double superphosphate. | Minister for Primary Industries and Energy | Minister for Primary Industries and Energy |\n| 7 | Division 932 | Payment to validate rebate paid in respect of crude oil production. | Minister for Primary Industries and Energy | Minister for Primary Industries and Energy |\n\n![](image.003.png) \nSCHEDULE 2 Section 4\n\nABSTRACT\n\n| Page Reference | Departments and Services | Total |\n| -------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------- |\n| | | $ |\n| 8 | Department of Administrative Services...................... | 2 826 000 |\n| 9 | Department of the Arts, Sport, the Environment, Tourism and Territories | 10 265 000 |\n| 10 | Attorney-General’s Department........................... | 406 000 |\n| 11 | Department of Community Services and Health................. | 18 832 000 |\n| 12 | Department of Veterans’ Affairs........................... | 10 953 000 |\n| 13 | Department of Employment, Education and Training............. | 5 203 000 |\n| 14 | Department of Aboriginal Affairs.......................... | 915 000 |\n| 15 | Department of Immigration, Local Government and Ethnic Affairs.... | 200 000 |\n| 16 | Department of Industrial Relations......................... | 10 000 |\n| 17 | Department of Industry, Technology and Commerce............. | 621 000 |\n| 18 | Department of Primary Industries and Energy.................. | 97 583 000 |\n| 19 | Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet................. | 1 100 000 |\n| 20 | Department of Social Security............................ | 467 000 |\n| 21 | Department of Transport and Communications................. | 507 000 |\n| 22 | Department of the Treasury.............................. | 3 552 000 |\n| | Total........................................ | 153 440 000 |\n\n \n\nDEPARTMENTS AND SERVICES\n\n```html\n

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Appropriation made by Appropriation Act (No. 2) 1987-88

Expenditure for 1986-87

$

$

$

DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES

Division 805.—CAPITAL WORKS AND SERVICES

1.—Acquisition of Sites and Buildings—Departmental

02. Department of the Arts, Sport, the Environment, Tourism and Territories

275 700

5 205 000

277 224

07. Department of Employment, Education and Training

115 000

642 000

955 979

08. Australian Customs Service.................

15 300

533 000

516 566

13. Department of Immigration, Local Government and Ethnic Affairs

750 000

..

..

1 156 000

6.—Buildings and Works—Departmental

01. Department of AdministrativeServices.........

1 670 000

55 809 000

51 897 446

Total: Division 805

2 826 000

Total: Department of Administrative Services......

2 826 000

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DEPARTMENT OF THE ARTS, SPORT, THE ENVIRONMENT, TOURISM AND TERRITORIES

$

$

$

Division 811.—CAPITAL WORKS AND SERVICES

1.—Building, Works, Plant and Equipment

03. Construction of Australian pavilion at Expo ‘88— Brisbane

430 000

3 235 000

..

6.—National Museum of Australia—For expenditure under the National Museum of Australia Act 1980

32 000

33 000

22 000

10.—Australian Sports Commission—For expenditure under the Australian Sports Commission Act 1985

5 067 000

..

..

Total: Division 811

5 529 000

Division 813.—OTHER SERVICES

01. Financial assistance related to Forest Industries Groups involved in the Lemonthyme Inquiry

120 000

..

..

02. Phosphate Mining Corporation of Christmas Island — Liquidation costs

3 000 000

..

..

03. Rainforest conservation structutral adjustment package

500 000

..

..

04. Establishment costs and funding in relation to a company which will assume the functions of the Production Division of the Australian Film Commission

800 000

..

..

Total: Division 813

4 420 000

Division 815.—AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY ADMINISTRATION

1.—Buildings and Works

01. Purchase of improvements on withdrawn leases...

241 000

140 000

205 477

2.—Plant and equipment

04. A.C.T. Institute of Technical and Further Education and colleges of technical and further education whose functions the Institute assumed

70 000

1 122 400

1 085 916

06. Signadou College of Education..............

3 000

99 000

80 538

73 000

6.—Canberra College of Advanced Education—For expenditure under the Canberra College of Advanced Education Act 1967

2 000

2 420 000

1 852 000

Total: Division 815

316 000

Total: Department of the Arts, Sport, the Environment, Tourism and Territories

10 265 000

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$

$

$

ATTORNEY-GENERAL’S DEPARTMENT

Division 818.—CAPITAL WORKS AND SERVICES

1.—Buildings, Works, Plant and Equipment

02. Other equipment........................

349 000

836 000

1 260 512

07. Standing Advisory Committee on Commonwealth/ State Co-operation for Protection against Violence.

57 000

1 690 000

1 127 566

Total: Division 818

406 000

Total: Attorney-General’s Department........

406 000

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Appropriation made by Appropriation Act (No. 2) 1987-88

Expenditure for 1986-87

$

$

$

DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY SERVICES AND HEALTH

Division 830.—CAPITAL WORKS AND SERVICES

1.—Plant and Equipment

01. Computer Equipment........................

5 100 000

7 165 000

679 803

Division 831.—PAYMENTS TO OR FOR THE STATES AND THE NORTHERN TERRITORY

04. Blood transfusion services.....................

873 000

17 412 000

16 216 139

08. Health Insurance Act 1973—Medicare grants.........

11 278 000

1 083 909 000

1 017 902 640

10. Contribution towards measures to combat the transmission of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

866 000

9 224 000

5 734 282

Total: Division 831

13 017 000

Division 832.—OTHER SERVICES

05. Payment to pharmacists for computerised transmission of pharmaceutical benefit claims

365 000

400 000

..

08. National Association of Testing Authorities—Grant for pathology accreditation

350 000

..

..

Total: Division 832

715 000

Total: Department of Community Services and Health

18 832 000

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Appropriation made by Appropriation Act (No. 2) 1987-88

Expenditure for 1986-87

$

$

$

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS’ AFFAIRS

Division 839.—CAPITAL WORKS AND SERVICES

2.—Plant and Equipment

03. Specialised equipment—Other...............

200 000

287 000

9 292 892

Division 841.—OTHER SERVICES

03. Grants for home acquisition to eligible persons under the Defence Service Homes Act 1918 and related expenses

750 000

..

..

04. Incentive payments to pharmacists for sample processing of veterans’ pharmaceutical claims

3 000

..

..

Total: Division 841

753 000

Division 842.—DEFENCE SERVICE HOMES CORPORATION

1.—For providing capital for the Defence Services Homes Corporation

10 000 000

4 000 000

16 000 000

Total: Department of Veterans’ Affairs........

10 953 000

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Expenditure for 1986-87

$

$

$

DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT, EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Division 848.—CAPITAL WORKS AND SERVICES

1.—Buildings and Works

01. The Australian National University—Approved capital programs

117 000

14 389 000

11 596 038

02. Non-Government schools Australian Capital Territory— Assistance for approved capital programs

19 000

1 338 000

1 300 500

136 000

2.—Plant and Equipment

01. Computer equipment.....................

350 000

9 136 300

11 788 917

Total: Division 848

486 000

Division 849.—PAYMENTS TO OR FOR THE STATES AND THE NORTHERN TERRITORY

08. For the purpose of the States Grants (Aboriginal Assistance) Act 1976—Recurrent funding for education

2 717 000

..

..

Division 850.—OTHER SERVICES

09. Rainforest conservation structural adjustment package—Labour Adjustment Program

2 000 000

..

..

Total: Department of Employment, Education and Training

5 203 000

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Expenditure for 1986-87

$

$

$

DEPARTMENT OF ABORIGINAL AFFAIRS

Division 836.—PAYMENTS TO OR FOR THE STATES AND THE NORTHERN TERRITORY

2.—Assistance to the Northern Territory for Aboriginal Advancement

915 000

96 000

446 900

Total: Department of Aboriginal Affairs.......

915 000

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$

$

$

DEPARTMENT OF IMMIGRATION, LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND ETHNIC AFFAIRS

Division 902.—CAPITAL WORKS AND SERVICES

1.—Buildings, Works, Plant and Equipment

02. Adult migrant education centres...........

200 000

589 000

441 458

Total: Department of Immigration, Local Govern- ment and Ethnic Affairs

200 000

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$

$

$

DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS

Division 912.—OTHER SERVICES

01. Compensation pursuant to the ‘Building Industry Code of Conduct’ for losses caused by industrial action in the building industry

10 000

..

..

Total: Department of Industrial Relations......

10 000

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$

$

$

DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY, TECHNOLOGY AND COMMERCE

Division 915.—CAPITAL WORKS AND SERVICES

1.—Buildings, Works, Plant and Equipment—

01. Departmental..........................

137 000

1 867 000

1 111 817

5.—Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization—For expenditure under the Science and Industry Research Act 1949

229 000

29 555 700

38 126 600

Total: Division 915

366 000

Division 917.—OTHER SERVICES

08. Payment to the Australia/Japan Joint Feasibility Study into the Multifunction Polis Proposal Trust Account

100 000

..

..

Division 918.—AUSTRALIAN CUSTOMS SERVICE

1.—Capital Works and Services—

01. Plant and equipment.....................

155 000

9 861 000

10 199 860

Total: Department of Industry, Technology and Commerce

621 000

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Expenditure for 1986-87

$

$

$

DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES AND ENERGY

Division 930.—CAPITAL WORKS AND SERVICES

1.—Plant and Equipment

01. Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics—Computer equipment

41 000

199 000

743 967

02. Departmental capital equipment..............

322 000

3 279 000

2 278 690

Total: Division 930

363 000

Division 931.—PAYMENTS TO OR FOR THE STATES AND THE NORTHERN TERRITORY

1.—Rural industries assistance

03. Assistance to users of fertilisers—being fertilisers subject to dumping duties, agras and double super-phosphate

3 750 800

18 500 000

42 599 983

05. Rural adjustment under an Act providing for financial assistance to the States and the Northern Territory

2 400 000

42 000 000

33 877 969

6 150 800

2.—For expenditure under the Federal Water Resources Assistance Program, for the purposes of the National Water Resources (Financial Assistance) Act 1978 and for the purposes of financial assistance agreements between the Commonwealth and the Northern Territory in relation to development and management of water resources

03. Assistance to the steel regions—Water quality improvement, New South Wales

200

664 000

5 250 000

11.—Payment to New South Wales for Coal Freight Rate Efficiency Scheme

10 000 000

..

..

Total: Division 931

16 151 000

Division 932.—OTHER SERVICES

07. Payment to validate rebate paid in respect of crude oil production

81 069 000

..

..

Total: Department of Primary Industries and Energy

97 583 000

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Expenditure for 1986-87

$

$

$

DEPARTMENT OF THE PRIME MINISTER AND CABINET

Division 937.—CAPITAL WORKS AND SERVICES

1.—Building, Works, Plant and Equipment

01. Governor-General’s Office and establishments....

100 000

609 000

156 638

Division 939.—OTHER SERVICES

03. Australian Stockman’s Hall of Fame and Outback Heritage Centre—Financial assistance by way of loan

1 000 000

..

..

Total: Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

1 100 000

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$

$

$

DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SECURITY

Division 948.—CAPITAL WORKS AND SERVICES

1.—Plant and Equipment

01. Computer equipment.....................

467 000

41 537 000

49 229 897

Total: Department of Social Security.........

467 000

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$

$

$

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATIONS

Division 973.—CAPITAL WORKS AND SERVICES— BROADCASTING AND TELEVISION

1.—For payment to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in respect of—

01. General activities—Domestic services..........

507 000

44 625 000

53 045 000

Total: Department of Transport and Communications

507 000

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Expenditure for 1986-87

$

$

$

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Division 980.—AUSTRALIAN TAXATION OFFICE

1.—Capital Works and Services

01. Plant and equipment.....................

3 552 000

12 387 000

14 945 385

Total: Department of the Treasury...........

3 552 000

\n```\n\n\\[Minister’s second reading speech made in—\n\nHouse of Representatives on 23 March 1988\n\nSenate on 20 April 1988\\]\n\nPrinted by Authority by the Commonwealth Government Printer (38/88)","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-realtime","completionTokens":3117},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The Act remains focused on its original purpose of providing supplementary appropriations for the 1987-88 financial year and making technical amendments to previous appropriation acts to update agency names. It has not expanded beyond this scope."},"complexity_factors":["Retrospective deeming provisions in sections 7-9 that validate references in earlier Appropriation Act as if they had always been correct","Extended definition of 'person' in section 5 to include States, Territories, local government bodies and organisations","Cross-references to Appropriation Act (No. 2) 1987-88 for baseline appropriation amounts","Detailed tabular schedules (Schedule 2) allocating specific dollar amounts to departmental divisions and subdivisions"],"plain_english_summary":"This Act authorises a one‑off $153.44 million top‑up to the 1987–88 federal budget, drawing on the Consolidated Revenue Fund to finance capital works, services and equipment across multiple Commonwealth departments. \n\nIt mainly affects agencies responsible for primary industries, health and community services, veterans’ support and arts/environment/tourism, and enables payments to states, territories and other bodies under ministerial determinations while making technical corrections and allowing flexible use of program appropriations."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":4,"scope_assessment":{"changed":true,"description":"Yes. The Act extends and clarifies the scope of prior appropriations by (a) supplying an additional $153,440,000 and deeming it appropriated from 1 July 1987 (ss3–4, Schedule 2), and (b) altering how earlier Act references operate so particular named beneficiaries are included or renamed — for example, changing item 13 Division 831 to refer to \"National Heart (Heart/Lung) and Liver Transplant Centres\" (s7), expanding the Bureau name to \"Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics\" (s8), and including the \"Murray‑Darling Basin Commission\" alongside the River Murray Commission reference (s9). These textual adjustments modify which entities and programs prior appropriations cover and add ministerial powers to set payment terms and timing (s5)."},"complexity_factors":["Retroactive appropriation deeming (s4) — money is treated as appropriated from 1 July 1987, which affects accounting and audit timing.","Ministerial discretion over terms, conditions and timing of payments (s5(2)(a)–(b)) creates administrative discretion and requires written determinations.","Program-level interpretation (s6) — appropriations for a program cover payments under Acts administered as part of that program and prior-act purposes, which expands how funds may be spent.","Amendments to prior Appropriation Act references (ss7–9) change which entities or programs are captured by earlier appropriations, altering legal scope without a separate standalone appropriation.","Detailed line-item schedules (Schedule 1 & Schedule 2) allocate many targeted payments across departments and divisions, increasing implementation complexity for multiple agencies.","Intergovernmental payments and validation items (Schedule 1 & various Division items) involve conditional transfers to States/Territories, requiring coordination and compliance monitoring.","Large single transfers (e.g. ~$81m for crude oil rebate validation in Division 932) concentrate fiscal impact and may require bespoke administrative processes."],"plain_english_summary":"This Act authorises an extra $153,440,000 from the Consolidated Revenue Fund for expenditure in the 1987–88 year, backdated to 1 July 1987, and gives the Minister for Finance power to issue and apply that money to the services listed in Schedule 2. It also prescribes that certain payments to States, Territories, local bodies and organisations are to be made on written terms and timing set by specified Ministers, and it amends earlier appropriation references to include or correct named beneficiaries."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/appropriation-act-no-4-1987-88","history":"/api/acts/appropriation-act-no-4-1987-88/history","analysis":"/api/acts/appropriation-act-no-4-1987-88/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/appropriation-act-no-4-1987-88/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/appropriation-act-no-4-1987-88/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/appropriation-act-no-4-1987-88/documents"}}