{"id":"C2004A03962","name":"Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 2) 1989-90","slug":"appropriation-parliamentary-departments-act-no-2-1989-90","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"31 of 1990","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":26492,"registerId":"commonwealth-C2004A03962-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-01","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 2) 1989-90","content":"![Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia](image.001.png)\n\nAppropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 2) 1989-90\n\nNo. 31 of 1990\n\nAn Act to appropriate a sum out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, additional to the sums appropriated by the Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act 1989-90, for certain expenditure, in relation to the Parliamentary Departments, in respect of the year ending on 30 June 1990, and for other purposes\n\n\\[Assented to 30 May 1990\\]\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 (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 2) 1989-90.\n\nCommencement\n\n2. This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.\n\nIssue and application of $9 769 000\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 1990, the sum of $9 769 000.\n\n12956/90 Cat. No. 90 4449 3\n\n \n\nAppropriation\n\n4. The sum authorised by this Act to be issued out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, is appropriated, and is taken to have been appropriated as from 1 July 1989, 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 (Parliamentary Departments) Act 1989-90 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\nNet annotated appropriations\n\n6. Where the description of the purpose of an appropriation set out in an item, subdivision or Division of the Schedule concludes with the words \"(net appropriation—see section 6)\", that Schedule is taken, for the purposes of this Act and the Audit Act 1901, to provide that all money received:\n\n(a) from the sale, leasing or hiring out of, or 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;\n\nmay be credited to that item, subdivision or Division, to such extent as is, and on such conditions as are, agreed between the Minister responsible for the Department, statutory authority, or other body for which the appropriation is made and the Minister for Finance.\n\n \n\nSCHEDULE Section 4\n\nABSTRACT\n\n```html\n

Division

Recurrent

Total

$

$

101

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

850 000

850 000

102

Advance to the President of the Senate..............

100 000

100 000

103

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

555 000

555 000

105

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

3 043 000

3 043 000

106

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

401 000

401 000

107

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

4 820 000

4 820 000

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

9 769 000

9 769 000

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Information with respect to previous appropriation and expenditure

Additional appropriation for 1989-90

Appropriation made by Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act 1989-90

Expenditure for 1988-89

$

$

$

Division 101.—SENATE

1. Recurrent Expenditure..................

850 000

15 990 000

15 656 823

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

850 000

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:

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

(A) 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

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

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

being expenditure for the service of the year ending on 30 June 1990 in relation to the Senate

100 000

200 000

*

\n```\n\n\\* Expenditure in 1988-89 from the Advance to the President of the Senate is shown under the appropriation to which it has been charged.\n\n| Division 103.—HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES | | | |\n| ---------------------------------------------------------- | --------- | ---------- | ---------- |\n| 1. Recurrent Expenditure.................... | 546 000 | 17 666 000 | 16 990 665 |\n| 2. Payments under subsection 34a (1) of the Audit Act 1901 | 9 000 | — | — |\n| Total: House of Representatives........ | 555 000 | | |\n| Division 105.—PARLIAMENTARY REPORTING STAFF | | | |\n| 1. Recurrent Expenditure.................... | 3 043 000 | 9 214 000 | 8 435 109 |\n| Total: Parliamentary Reporting Staff.... | 3 043 000 | | |\n\n \n\n```html\n

Information with respect to previous appropriation and expenditure

Additional appropriation for 1989-90

Appropriation made by Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act 1989-90

Expenditure for 1988-89

$

$

$

Division 106.—PARLIAMENTARY LIBRARY

1. Recurrent Expenditure...................

401 000

27 671 000

26 008 015

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

401 000

Division 107.—JOINT HOUSE DEPARTMENT

1. Recurrent Expenditure (net appropriation—see section 6)

4 820 000

29 202 000

35 040 232

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

4 820 000

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