{"id":"C1995A00026","name":"Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 2) 1994-95","slug":"appropriation-parliamentary-departments-act-no-2-1994-95","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"26 of 1995","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":2589,"registerId":"commonwealth-C1995A00026-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-03-29","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 2) 1994-95","content":"![](image.001.png)\n\nAppropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 2) 1994‑95\n\nNo. 26 of 1995\n\nAn Act to appropriate money out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, additional to the money appropriated by the Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act 1994‑95, for certain expenditure in relation to the Parliamentary Departments in respect of the year ending on 30 June 1995, and for related purposes\n\n\\[Assented to 7 April 1995\\]\n\nThe Parliament of Australia enacts:\n\nShort title\n\n1. This Act may be cited as the Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 2) 1994‑95.\n\nCommencement\n\n2. This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.\n\nIssue and application of $ 7 239 000\n\n3. (1) The Minister 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 1995, the sum of $ 7 239 000.\n\n73163 Cat. No. 95 4765 7 ISBN 0644 434812\n\n \n\n(2) The Consolidated Revenue Fund is appropriated as necessary for the purposes of subsection (1).\n\nAdditional appropriation in respect of increases in salaries\n\n4. Section 4 of the Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act 1994‑95 has effect, on and from the commencement of this Act, as if any reference in that section to the Schedule to that Act included a reference to the Schedule to this Act.\n\nNet annotated appropriations\n\n5. (1) If the description of the purpose of an appropriation set out in an item, subdivision or Division in the Schedule includes the words \"(net appropriation — see section 5)\", the 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 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 such extent as is, and on such conditions as are, agreed between the Minister and the Presiding Officer or Presiding Officers responsible for the Department for which the appropriation is made.\n\n \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 (l)(a) or (b); or\n\n(b) the provision of services; or\n\n(c) any benefit referred to in paragraph (l)(d);\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 or as payment for that benefit (as the case may be), whether or not money has in fact been received in payment of that amount.\n\nPayments to Departments out of money appropriated for the purposes of certain programs\n\n6\\. (1) If a payment is made to a Parliamentary Department out of money appropriated for the purposes of entry level training under item 02 of subdivision 4 of Division 220 in the Schedule to the Appropriation Act (No. 3) 1994‑95, the Schedule to the Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act 1994‑95 is taken, for the purposes of the Audit Act 1901, to provide that any money received by the Department by way of such a payment may be credited to the subdivision in that Schedule that appropriates money for the running costs of the Department.\n\n(2) If the Consolidated Revenue Fund is credited with an amount purporting to be a payment to a Department out of money appropriated as referred to in subsection (1), that amount is taken for the purposes of subsection (1), to be money received by the Department by way of such a payment, whether or not money has in fact been received in respect of the payment.\n\n(3) If:\n\n(a) a payment is made to a Parliamentary Department out of money appropriated for Labour Market Program Assistance to Jobseekers and Industry under subdivision 7 of Division 220 in the Schedule to the Appropriation Act (No. 3) 1994‑95; and\n\n(b) the payment is a subsidy in respect of the employment of a person by the Department under the JOBSTART Program, or the Jobskills Program, administered by the Commonwealth Employment Service;\n\n \nthe Schedule to the Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act 1994‑95 is taken, for the purposes of the Audit Act 1901, to provide that any money received by the Department by way of such a payment may be credited to the subdivision in that Schedule that appropriates money for the running costs of the Department.\n\n(4) If the Consolidated Revenue Fund is credited with an amount purporting to be a payment of the kind referred to in paragraph (3)(b) made to a Department out of money appropriated as referred to in paragraph (3)(a), that amount is taken, for the purposes of subsection (3), to be money received by the Department by way of such a payment, whether or not money has in fact been received in respect of the payment.\n\n(5) The Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act 1994‑95 has effect, and is taken at all times to have had effect, as if:\n\n(a) there were inserted in paragraph 6(3)(b) \", or the Jobskills Program,\" after \"Program\"; and\n\n(b) there were added at the end of section 6 the following subsections:\n\n\"(5) If a payment is made to a Parliamentary Department out of money appropriated under item 3 of Division 832 in Schedule 2 to the Appropriation Act (No. 2) 1994‑95, the Schedule to this Act is taken, for the purposes of the Audit Act 1901, to provide that any money received by the Department by way of such a payment may be credited to the subdivision in the Schedule to this Act that appropriates money for the running costs of the Department.\n\n\"(6) If the Consolidated Revenue Fund is credited with an amount purporting to be a payment to a Department out of money appropriated as referred to in subsection (5), that amount is taken, for the purposes of subsection (5), to be money received by the Department by way of such a payment, whether or not money has in fact been received in respect of the payment.\".\n\n![](image.002.png) \nSCHEDULE Section 3\n\nABSTRACT\n\n```html\n

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Reference

Departments

Total

$

7

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

927 000

7

House of Representative.....................................

118 000

7

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

5 172 000

8

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

697 000

8

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

325 000

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

7 239 000

\n```\n\nSUMMARY\n\nAppropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No.2) 1994‑95, Heavy figures\n\nAppropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act 1994‑95, Light figures \\*\n\n```html\n

Division

Running Costs

Other Services

Total

$

$

$

101

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

807 000

120 000

927 000

21 561 000

336 000

21 897 000

104

House of Representative....................

—

118 000

118 000

22 807 000

332 000

23 139 000

107

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

5 172 000

—

5 172 000

28 889 000

—

28 889 000

108

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

697 000

—

697 000

14 488 000

5 000

14 493 000

109

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

325 000

—

325 000

34 772 000

2 483 000

37 255 000

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

7 001 000

238 000

7 239 000

122 517 000

3 156 000

125 673 000

\n```\n\n\\* Does not include appropriation under Division 102 — Advance to the President of the Senate, $300 000, under Division 103 — Provision for Running Costs Borrowings, $50 000 , under Division 105 — Advance to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, $300 000, under Division 106 — Provision for Running Costs Borrowings, $50 000, under Division 110 — Joint Advance to the President and the Speaker, $1 000 000 and under Division 111 — Provision for Running Costs Borrowings, $200 000 in Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act 1994‑95.\n\n \nSCHEDULE — continued\n\n```html\n

Information with respect to previous appropriation and expenditure

Additional appropriation for 1994‑95

Appropriation made by Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act 1994‑95

Expenditure for 1993‑94

$

$

$

Division 101.—SENATE

1.— Running Costs (net appropriation — see section 5) (see also section 6)

807 000

21 561 000

21 575 214

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

2 000

4 000

13 749

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

118 000

332 000

301 600

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

927 000

Division 104.— HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

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

118 000

332 000

296 850

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

118 000

Division 107.— PARLIAMENTARY REPORTING STAFF

1.— Running Costs (net appropriation — see section 5) (see also section 6)

5 172 000

28 889 000

29 478 340

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

5 172 000

\n```\n\n \nSCHEDULE — continued\n\n```html\n

Information with respect to previous appropriation and expenditure

Additional appropriation for 1994‑95

Appropriation made by Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act 1994‑95

Expenditure for 1993‑94

$

$

$

Division 108.— PARLIAMENTARY LIBRARY

1.— Running Costs (net appropriation — see section 5) (see also section 6)

697 000

14 488 000

13 191 450

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

697 000

Division 109.— JOINT HOUSE DEPARTMENT

1.— Running Costs (net appropriation — see section 5) (see also section 6)

325 000

34 772 000

35 132 920

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

325 000

\n```\n\n\\[Minister's second reading speech made in—\n\nHouse of Representatives on 9 November 1994\n\nSenate on 8 December 1994\\]\n\n![](image.003.png)\n\nPrinted by Authority by the Commonwealth Government Printer (170/94)","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-realtime","completionTokens":2210},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This is a standard supplementary appropriation (No. 2) explicitly intended to provide additional funds beyond the main Appropriation Act. The scope remains strictly limited to funding parliamentary departmental operations for the 1994-95 financial year, consistent with the original purpose."},"complexity_factors":["Multiple cross-references to other Appropriation Acts from the same financial year (Act No. 3 of 1994-95 and the original 1994-95 Act)","Net appropriation mechanism requiring bilateral agreement between Minister and Presiding Officers","Technical accounting provisions allowing crediting of Consolidated Revenue Fund for deemed receipts (sections 5 and 6)","Retrospective deeming provision in section 6(5) inserting new subsections into the principal Act"],"plain_english_summary":"This supplementary appropriation adds $7.24 million to Australia’s parliamentary departments for 1994–95, allocated across the Senate, House, Hansard, Parliamentary Library and Joint House Department to cover running costs and programs. \n\nIt lets those departments retain certain revenue and credits from government training programs to offset their budgets (with Finance/Presiding Officer agreement) and backdates a technical training-payment fix, preventing funding shortfalls before year-end."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":4,"scope_assessment":{"changed":true,"description":"This Act expands the scope of the earlier Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act 1994‑95 by (a) adding an additional appropriation of $7,239,000 (section 3 and the Schedule), (b) treating the Schedule to this Act as part of the earlier Act for increases in salaries (section 4), and (c) extending rules that allow certain departmental receipts and payments from other appropriation items/programs to be credited to running‑cost appropriations and to be treated as received for audit/accounting purposes (sections 5 and 6)."},"complexity_factors":["Cross-references to earlier appropriation instruments (it amends the Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act 1994‑95 — see section 4 and the Schedule).","Net‑appropriation mechanics allowing departmental receipts (sales, leases, service fees, employee payments) to be credited to running‑cost items, subject to agreement between the Minister and Presiding Officer(s) (section 5(1)).","Deeming provisions that treat amounts credited to the Consolidated Revenue Fund as money received for appropriation/crediting purposes even if no actual payment has been received (section 5(2); parallel deeming in section 6 subsections).","Provisions authorising crediting of payments made from other specific appropriation items/programs (e.g. entry level training, labour market program subsidies, and an item in Appropriation Act (No.2) 1994‑95) to departmental running‑cost subdivisions for audit purposes (section 6(1)–(6)).","Interaction with the Audit Act 1901 (references in sections 5 and 6 about how the Schedule is taken to operate for audit purposes), creating accounting and audit treatment rules.","Mixture of straightforward cash appropriation (section 3) and accounting/legal rules about internal crediting and recognition, which requires reading across multiple Acts and Schedule tables."],"plain_english_summary":"This Act authorises an extra $7,239,000 from the Consolidated Revenue Fund for parliamentary departments for the year to 30 June 1995, allocating amounts to the Senate, House, Reporting Staff, Parliamentary Library and Joint House Department. It also permits certain departmental receipts and specific payments from other appropriation items to be credited against running-cost appropriations (subject to agreement) and treats purported credits as received for audit/accounting purposes."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/appropriation-parliamentary-departments-act-no-2-1994-95","history":"/api/acts/appropriation-parliamentary-departments-act-no-2-1994-95/history","analysis":"/api/acts/appropriation-parliamentary-departments-act-no-2-1994-95/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/appropriation-parliamentary-departments-act-no-2-1994-95/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/appropriation-parliamentary-departments-act-no-2-1994-95/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/appropriation-parliamentary-departments-act-no-2-1994-95/documents"}}