{"id":"C2004A04431","name":"Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act 1992-93","slug":"appropriation-parliamentary-departments-act-1992-93","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"140 of 1992","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":26825,"registerId":"commonwealth-C2004A04431-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-01","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act 1992-93","content":"![Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia](image.001.png)\n\nAppropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act 1992-93\n\nNo. 140 of 1992\n\nAn Act to appropriate certain sums out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for certain expenditure in relation to the Parliamentary Departments in respect of the year ending on 30 June 1993, and for related purposes\n\n\\[Assented to 23 November 1992\\]\n\nThe Parliament of Australia enacts:\n\nShort title\n\n1. This Act may be cited as the Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act 1992-93.\n\nCommencement\n\n2. This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.\n\nIssue and application of $ 62 225 000\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 1993, the sum of $ 62 225 000.\n\n37135 Cat. No. 92 6479 5\n\n \nAppropriation of $115 339 000\n\n4. The following sums amounting in the aggregate, as appears in Schedule 1, to $115 339 000, are appropriated, and are taken to have been appropriated as from 1 July 1992, for the services expressed in Schedule 2 in respect of the year that commenced on that day:\n\n(a) the sum appropriated by section 3 of the Supply (Parliamentary Departments) Act 1992-93; and\n\n(b) the sum specified in section 3 of this Act.\n\nAdditional appropriation in respect of increases in salaries\n\n5. (1) In addition to the sums referred to in section 4, the Minister for Finance may issue out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the service of the year ending on 30 June 1993 amounts not exceeding such amounts as are determined by the President, by the Speaker, or by the President and the Speaker, in accordance with subsection (2), (3) or (4), as the case may be.\n\n(2) The amounts determined by the President under this subsection must not exceed the amounts estimated to be necessary for the payment of such increases in salaries, and payments in the nature of salary, for which provision is made in Subdivision 1 of Division 101 in Schedule 2, as have become payable or become payable, or have commenced or commence to be paid, during the year ending 30 June 1993, in accordance with a law, or an award, order or determination made under a law.\n\n(3) The amounts determined by the Speaker under this subsection must not exceed the amounts estimated to be necessary for the payment of such increases in salaries, and payments in the nature of salary, for which provision is made in Subdivision 1 of Division 103 in Schedule 2, as have become payable or become payable, or have commenced or commence to be paid, during the year ending 30 June 1993, in accordance with a law, or an award, order or determination made under a law.\n\n(4) The amounts determined by the President and the Speaker under this subsection must not exceed the amounts estimated to be necessary for the payment of such increases in salaries, and payments in the nature of salary, for which provision is made in Subdivision 1 of Division 105, Subdivision 1 of Division 106, or Subdivision 1 of 107, in Schedule 2, as have become payable or become payable, or have commenced or commence to be paid, during the year ending 30 June 1993, in accordance with a law, or an award, order or determination made under a law.\n\n \n\n(5) Amounts issued under subsection (1) may be applied only for the purpose of expenditure in respect of increases referred to in subsection (2), (3) or (4) in salaries and in payments in the nature of salary and the Minister for Finance must report the amounts so issued to the Parliament.\n\n(6) The Consolidated Revenue Fund is appropriated to the extent necessary for the purposes of this section.\n\nAmounts expended under Supply Act in respect of increases in salaries\n\n6. Amounts issued, before the commencement of this Act, in accordance with section 4 of the Supply (Parliamentary Departments) Act 1992-93, and applied in payment of operating expenses (including recurrent expenditure) for which provision is made in Schedule 2 by way of payment of salaries or payments in the nature of salary, are taken to have been issued and applied under this Act.\n\nNet annotated appropriations\n\n7. (1) If the description of the purpose of an appropriation set out in an item, subdivision or Division of Schedule 2 concludes with the words \"(net appropriation — see section 7)\", that Schedule is taken, for the purposes of this Act and the Audit Act 1901, to provide that any money received:\n\n(a) from the sale, leasing or hiring out of, or any other dealing with, goods or personal property; or\n\n(b) from the sale of real property used for the purpose of providing staff residential accommodation or from the leasing of real property for that purpose; or\n\n(c) from the provision of services; or\n\n(d) from a person (\"employee\") appointed or employed by, or performing services for, the Commonwealth as payment for any benefit provided (whether to the employee or another person) in respect of the appointment or employment of, or the services performed by, the employee;\n\nmay be credited to that item, subdivision or Division, to the extent and on the conditions agreed between the Minister for Finance and the Presiding Officer or Presiding Officers responsible for the Department for which the appropriation is made.\n\n(2) If the Consolidated Revenue Fund is credited with an amount purported to have been paid in respect of:\n\n(a) a sale, or other transaction, referred to in paragraph (1)(a) or (b); or\n\n(b) the provision of services;\n\n \nthat amount is taken, for the purposes of subsection (1), to be money received from that sale or other transaction or from the provision of those services (as the case may be) whether or not money has in fact been received in payment of that amount.\n\nAdvances to President, Speaker or President and Speaker\n\n8\\. (1) Expenditure in relation to the Senate in excess of specific appropriation may be charged to such subdivision of Division 101 in Schedule 2 as the President may direct but the total expenditure so charged in the year ending on 30 June 1993, after deduction of amounts of repayments, must not at any time exceed the amount appropriated for that year under the head \"Advance to the President of the Senate\".\n\n(2) Expenditure in relation to the House of Representatives in excess of specific appropriation may be charged to such subdivision of Division 103 in Schedule 2 as the Speaker may direct but the total expenditure so charged in the year ending 30 June 1993, after deduction of amounts of repayments, must not at any time exceed the amount appropriated for that year under the head \"Advance to the Speaker of the House of Representatives\".\n\n(3) Expenditure in relation to the Parliamentary Reporting Staff, the Parliamentary Library or the Joint House Department in excess of specific appropriation may be charged to such subdivision of Division 105, 106 or 107 in Schedule 2 as the President and the Speaker both direct but the total expenditure so charged in the year ending 30 June 1993, after deduction of amounts of repayments, must not at any time exceed the amount appropriated for that year under the head \"Joint Advance to the President and the Speaker\".\n\n![](image.002.png)SCHEDULE 1 Section 4\n\nSUMS AUTHORISED TO BE ISSUED OUT OF THE CONSOLIDATED REVENUE FUND\n\n| | $ |\n| -------------------------------------------------------- | ----------- |\n| By the Supply (Parliamentary Departments) Act 1992-93... | 53 114 000 |\n| By this Act................................. | 62 225 000 |\n| Total..................................... | 115 339 000 |\n\n \nSCHEDULE 2 Sections 3 and 4\n\nABSTRACT\n\n| Page Reference | Departments and Services | Total |\n| -------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------- |\n| | | $ |\n| 6 | Senate................................................. | 19 379 000 |\n| 6 | Advance to the President of the Senate............................ | 300 000 |\n| 7 | House of Representatives..................................... | 20 699 000 |\n| 7 | Advance to the Speaker of the House of Representatives................ | 300 000 |\n| 7 | Parliamentary Reporting Staff.................................. | 26 696 000 |\n| 8 | Parliamentary Library....................................... | 10 199 000 |\n| 8 | Joint House Department...................................... | 36 766 000 |\n| 8 | Joint Advance to the President and the Speaker....................... | 1 000 000 |\n| | Total................................................. | 115 339 000 |\n\nSUMMARY\n\nAppropriation — 1992-93, Heavy figures\n\nExpenditure— 1991-92, Light figures\n\n```html\n

Division

Operating Expenses

Capital Expenditure

Total

$

$

$

101

Senate...................................

19 379 000

—

19 379 000

19 392 854

—

19 392 854

103

House of Representatives......................

20 699 000

—

20 699 000

20 734 641

—

20 734 641

105

Parliamentary Reporting Staff...................

26 696 000

—

26 696 000

30 883 350

—

30 883 350

106

Parliamentary Library........................

10 199 000

—

10 199 000

11 026 774

—

11 026 774

107

Joint House Department.......................

34 056 000

2 710 000

36 766 000

35 557 101

3 645 681

39 202 782

Total...................................

111 029 000

2 710 000

113 739 000

117 594 720

3 645 681

121 240 401

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1992-93

1991-92

Appropriation

Expenditure

$

$

$

Division 101.—SENATE

1. Operating expenses (net appropriation — see section 7)..

19 125 000

19 414 011

19 198 841

2. Payments under subsection 34A(1) of the Audit Act 1901..

4 000

4 091

4 088

3. Citizenship visits program.......................

250 000

325 000

189 925

Total: Senate..............................

19 379 000

19 743 102

19 392 854

ADVANCE TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE

Division 102 — ADVANCE TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE

To enable the President of the Senate to make money available for expenditure:

(a) that the President of the Senate is satisfied is expenditure that is urgently required and:

(i) was unforeseen until after the last day on which it was practicable to include appropriation for that expenditure in the Bill for this Act before the introduction of that Bill into the House of Representatives; or

(ii) was erroneously omitted from, or understated in, the Bill for this Act; and

(b) particulars of which will afterwards be submitted to the Parliament;

being expenditure for the service of the year ending on 30 June 1993 in relation to the Senate

300 000

300 000

*

* Expenditure in 1991-92 from the Advance to the President of the Senate is shown under the appropriation to which it has been charged.

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1992-93

1991-92

Appropriation

Expenditure

$

$

$

Division 103.— HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

1. Operating expenses (net appropriation — see section 7)..

20 449 000

20 831 190

20 544 716

3. Citizenship visits program.......................

250 000

325 000

189 925

Total: House of Representatives................

20 699 000

21 156 190

20 734 641

ADVANCE TO THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Division 104.— ADVANCE TO THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

To enable the Speaker of the House of Representatives to make money available for expenditure:

(a) that the Speaker of the House of Representatives is satisfied is expenditure that is urgently required and:

(i) was unforeseen until after the last day on which it was practicable to include appropriation for that expenditure in the Bill for this Act before the introduction of that Bill into the House of Representatives; or

(ii) was erroneously omitted from, or understated in, the Bill for this Act; and

(b) particulars of which will afterwards be submitted to the Parliament;

being expenditure for the service of the year ending on 30 June 1993 in relation to the House of Representatives

300 000

300 000

*

* Expenditure in 1991-92 from the Advance to the Speaker of the House of Representatives is shown under the appropriation to which it has been charged.

Division 105.— PARLIAMENTARY REPORTING STAFF

1. Operating expenses (net appropriation — see section 7)..

26 696 000

31 761 000

30 883 350

Total: Parliamentary Reporting Staff............

26 696 000

31 761 000

30 883 350

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1992-93

1991-92

Appropriation

Expenditure

$

$

$

Division 106.— PARLIAMENTARY LIBRARY

1. Operating expenses (net appropriation — see section 7)..

10 199 000

11 055 584

11 026 774

Total: Parliamentary Library..................

10 199 000

11 055 584

11 026 774

Division 107.— JOINT HOUSE DEPARTMENT

1. Operating expenses (net appropriation — see section 7)..

34 056 000

37 195 983

35 557 101

2. Capital expenditure...........................

2 710 000

4 027 000

3 645 681

Total: Joint House Department.................

36 766 000

41 222 983

39 202 782

JOINT ADVANCE TO THE PRESIDENT AND THE SPEAKER

Division 108.— JOINT ADVANCE TO THE PRESIDENT AND THE SPEAKER

To enable the President and the Speaker to make money available for expenditure:

(a) that both the President and the Speaker are satisfied is expenditure that is urgently required and:

(i) was unforeseen until after the last day on which it was practicable to include appropriation for that expenditure in the Bill for this Act before the introduction of that Bill into the House of Representatives; or

(ii) was erroneously omitted from, or understated in, the Bill for this Act; and

(b) particulars of which will afterwards be submitted to the Parliament;

being expenditure for the service of the year ending on 30 June 1993 in relation to the Parliamentary Reporting Staff, the Parliamentary Library or the Joint House Department

1 000 000

1 000 000

*

* Expenditure in 1991-92 from the Joint Advance to the President and the Speaker is shown under the appropriation to which it has been charged.

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