{"id":"C2026A00052","name":"Appropriation Act (No. 6) 2025-2026","slug":"appropriation-act-no-6-2025-2026","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":"52 of 2026","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":534260,"registerId":"commonwealth-C2026A00052-1785607825864","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-08-01","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"Part 1","sectionType":"part","heading":"Preliminary","content":"Part 1—Preliminary","sortOrder":0},{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Short title","content":"1  Short title\n\n  This Act is the Appropriation Act (No. 6) 2025‑2026.","sortOrder":1},{"sectionNumber":"2","sectionType":"section","heading":"Commencement","content":"2  Commencement\n\n (1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.\n\n\n\n- Commencement information\n- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3\n- Provisions Commencement Date/Details\n- 1. The whole of this Act The day this Act receives the Royal Assent. 26 June 2026\n\n\nNote: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.\n\n (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.","sortOrder":2},{"sectionNumber":"3","sectionType":"section","heading":"Definitions","content":"3  Definitions\n\n  In this Act:\n\nadministered assets and liabilities item means an amount set out in Schedule 1 in relation to a non‑corporate entity opposite the heading “Administered Assets and Liabilities”.\n\nadministered item means an amount set out in Schedule 1 opposite an outcome for a non‑corporate entity under the heading “New Administered Outcomes”.\n\ncorporate entity means:\n\n (a) a corporate Commonwealth entity within the meaning of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013; or\n\n (b) a Commonwealth company within the meaning of that Act.\n\ncorporate entity item means the amount set out in Schedule 1 in relation to a corporate entity under the heading “Non‑operating”.\n\ncurrent year means the financial year ending on 30 June 2026.\n\nexpenditure means payments for expenses, acquiring assets, making loans or paying liabilities.\n\nitem means any of the following:\n\n (a) a State, ACT, NT and local government item;\n\n (b) an administered item;\n\n (c) an administered assets and liabilities item;\n\n (d) an other departmental item;\n\n (e) a corporate entity item.\n\nnon‑corporate entity means:\n\n (a) a non‑corporate Commonwealth entity within the meaning of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013; or\n\n (b) the High Court.\n\nother departmental item means an amount set out in Schedule 1 in relation to a non‑corporate entity opposite the heading “Equity Injections”.\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 the Appropriation Act (No. 3) 2025‑2026 and the Bill for the Appropriation Act (No. 4) 2025‑2026.\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) 2025‑2026 and the Bill for the Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2025‑2026.\n\nportfolio statements means:\n\n (a) the Portfolio Budget Statements; and\n\n (b) the Portfolio Additional Estimates Statements; and\n\n (c) the Portfolio Supplementary Additional Estimates Statements.\n\nPortfolio Supplementary Additional Estimates Statements means the Portfolio Supplementary 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. 5) 2025‑2026.\n\nspecial account has the same meaning as in the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013.\n\nState, ACT, NT and local government item means an amount set out in Schedule 1 opposite an outcome for a non‑corporate entity under the heading “Payments to States, ACT, NT and local government”.","sortOrder":3},{"sectionNumber":"4","sectionType":"section","heading":"Portfolio statements","content":"4  Portfolio statements\n\n  The portfolio statements are 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 which provides that the material that may be considered in the interpretation of a provision of an Act includes any document that is declared by the Act to be a relevant document.","sortOrder":4},{"sectionNumber":"5","sectionType":"section","heading":"Notional transactions between entities that are part of the Commonwealth","content":"5  Notional transactions between entities that are part of the Commonwealth\n\n  For the purposes of this Act, notional transactions between non‑corporate entities are to be treated as if they were real transactions.\n\nNote: This section applies, for example, to a “payment” between non‑corporate entities 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 non‑corporate entity, even though no payment is actually made from the Consolidated Revenue Fund. This is consistent with section 76 of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013.","sortOrder":5},{"sectionNumber":"Part 2","sectionType":"part","heading":"Appropriation items","content":"Part 2—Appropriation items","sortOrder":6},{"sectionNumber":"6","sectionType":"section","heading":"Summary of appropriations","content":"6  Summary of appropriations\n\n  The total of the items specified in Schedule 1 is $1,127,824,000.\n\nNote: Sections 74 to 75 of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 provide for the adjustment of amounts appropriated by this Act.","sortOrder":7},{"sectionNumber":"7","sectionType":"section","heading":"State, ACT, NT and local government items","content":"7  State, ACT, NT and local government items\n\n (1) The amount specified in a State, ACT, NT and local government item for an outcome for a non‑corporate entity may be applied for the purpose of making payments to or for the States, the Australian Capital Territory, the Northern Territory and local government authorities for the purpose of contributing to achieving that outcome.\n\n (2) If the portfolio 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.","sortOrder":8},{"sectionNumber":"8","sectionType":"section","heading":"Administered items","content":"8  Administered items\n\n (1) The amount specified in an administered item for an outcome for a non‑corporate entity may be applied for expenditure for the purpose of contributing to achieving that outcome.\n\n (2) If the portfolio 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.","sortOrder":9},{"sectionNumber":"9","sectionType":"section","heading":"Administered assets and liabilities items","content":"9  Administered assets and liabilities items\n\n (1) The amount specified in an administered assets and liabilities item for a non‑corporate entity may be applied for expenditure for the purpose of contributing to achieving any outcome specified for the entity:\n\n (a) in Schedule 1 to this Act; or\n\n (b) in Schedule 1 to the Supply Act (No. 1) 2025‑2026; or\n\n (c) in Schedule 1 to the Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2025‑2026; or\n\n (d) in Schedule 2 to the Supply Act (No. 2) 2025‑2026; or\n\n (e) in Schedule 2 to the Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2025‑2026; or\n\n (f) in Schedule 1 to the Appropriation Act (No. 3) 2025‑2026; or\n\n (g) in Schedule 2 to the Appropriation Act (No. 4) 2025‑2026; or\n\n (h) in Schedule 1 to the Appropriation Act (No. 5) 2025‑2026.\n\n (2) If the portfolio 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.","sortOrder":10},{"sectionNumber":"10","sectionType":"section","heading":"Other departmental items","content":"10  Other departmental items\n\n  The amount specified in an other departmental item for a non‑corporate entity may be applied for the departmental expenditure of the entity.","sortOrder":11},{"sectionNumber":"11","sectionType":"section","heading":"Corporate entity items","content":"11  Corporate entity items\n\n (1) The amount specified in a corporate entity item for a corporate entity may be paid to the entity to be applied for the purposes of the entity.\n\n (2) If:\n\n (a) an Act provides that a corporate entity must be paid amounts that are appropriated by the Parliament for the purposes of the entity; and\n\n (b) Schedule 1 contains a corporate entity item for that entity;\n\nthen the entity must be paid the full amount specified in the item.","sortOrder":12},{"sectionNumber":"Part 3","sectionType":"part","heading":"Debit limits","content":"Part 3—Debit limits","sortOrder":13},{"sectionNumber":"12","sectionType":"section","heading":"Debit limits","content":"12  Debit limits\n\nNational partnership payments\n\n (1) The debit limit for the current year for the purposes of section 16 of the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 is $40,000,000,000.\n\nEffect of debit limit\n\n (2) The debit limit set out in subsection (1) applies despite subsection 13(2) of the Supply Act (No. 2) 2025‑2026.\n\n (3) Subsection (1) has effect, after it commences, instead of subsection 13(2) of the Supply Act (No. 2) 2025‑2026.","sortOrder":14},{"sectionNumber":"Part 4","sectionType":"part","heading":"Miscellaneous","content":"Part 4—Miscellaneous","sortOrder":15},{"sectionNumber":"13","sectionType":"section","heading":"Crediting amounts to special accounts","content":"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.","sortOrder":16},{"sectionNumber":"14","sectionType":"section","heading":"Appropriation of the Consolidated Revenue Fund","content":"14  Appropriation of the Consolidated Revenue Fund\n\n  The Consolidated Revenue Fund is appropriated as necessary for the purposes of this Act, including the operation of this Act as affected by the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013.","sortOrder":17},{"sectionNumber":"15","sectionType":"section","heading":"Repeal of this Act","content":"15  Repeal of this Act\n\n  This Act is repealed at the start of 1 July 2028.","sortOrder":18}],"analysis":{"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":4,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This Bill operates within the ordinary scope of an annual appropriation Act: it labels and authorises amounts in Schedule 1, sets accounting and payment rules, specifies a debit limit for national partnership payments, and directs how certain documents (portfolio statements) may be used in interpreting the Act. It does not (on its face) create new substantive program powers, new regulatory regimes, or materially broaden parliamentary appropriation purposes beyond funding and accounting mechanics; the $40 billion debit limit and the cross‑instrument references coordinate funding rules rather than expanding policy scope.\n\nThis is general legal information, not legal advice; Zoe can make mistakes. Before you act on this, rely on it, or use any draft based on it, get a qualified Australian lawyer to check it."},"complexity_factors":["Length and structure typical of an appropriation Act rather than a single‑issue Bill (multiple Parts and Schedule 1 as the money schedule).","About 15 defined terms in section 3 (e.g. administered item, corporate entity, non‑corporate entity, portfolio statements, special account, State/ACT/NT/local government item).","Extensive cross‑references to other statutes (Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013; Federal Financial Relations Act 2009; Acts Interpretation Act 1901).","Cross‑references to multiple other appropriation and supply instruments (Supply Act (No. 1) and (No. 2) 2025‑2026; Appropriation Acts (No. 1)–(No. 5) and Supply Acts), especially in section 9.","Conditional and mandatory payment rule in section 11(2) (if another Act requires amounts appropriated for a corporate entity, Schedule 1 entry triggers full payment).","Accounting/interpretation provisions that change treatment of intra‑Commonwealth entries (section 5—notional transactions).","Debit limit provision that expressly overrides or replaces a provision in Supply Act (No. 2) 2025‑2026 (section 12), creating temporal substitution of rules.","Repeal date and commencement table (commencement retroactivity mechanics and a fixed repeal date)."],"plain_english_summary":"**What it does:** Appropriates $1,127,824,000 (Schedule 1) across departmental, administered, corporate and State/territory/local‑government items; treats intra‑Commonwealth “notional” transactions as if they were real for appropriation accounting; declares the portfolio statements as relevant extrinsic material for interpretation; sets a $40 billion debit limit for national partnership payments; permits crediting of appropriations to special accounts; and appropriates the Consolidated Revenue Fund. The Act is repealed 1 July 2028.\n\n**Who it affects and why it matters:** Commonwealth non‑corporate and corporate entities, States, territories, local governments and holders of special accounts, because it authorises specific payments, payment rules, accounting treatments and a debit limit that govern how public money may be applied."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/appropriation-act-no-6-2025-2026","history":"/api/acts/appropriation-act-no-6-2025-2026/history","analysis":"/api/acts/appropriation-act-no-6-2025-2026/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/appropriation-act-no-6-2025-2026/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/appropriation-act-no-6-2025-2026/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/appropriation-act-no-6-2025-2026/documents"}}