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Contents

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Short title.................................................

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Commencement.............................................

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Definitions.................................................

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Issue and application of $ 1 129 000................................

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Running costs ..............................................

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Additional appropriation in respect of increases in salaries.................

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Net annotated appropriations.....................................

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Payments to Departments out of money appropriated for the purposes of certain employment subsidy schemes or programs

4

9

Payments to Departments out of The Comcover Reserve...................

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10

Certain amounts taken to be appropriated.............................

5

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Consolidated Revenue Fund not to be debited after close of financial year.......

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Schedule — Services for which money is appropriated

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\n```\n\n![](image.002.png)\n\nAppropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 2) 1998‑99\n\nNo. 23, 1999\n\n![](image.003.png)An Act to appropriate money out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, additional to the money appropriated by the Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act 1998‑99, for certain expenditure in relation to the Parliamentary Departments in respect of the year ending on 30 June 1999, and for related purposes\n\n\\[Assented to 14 May 1999\\]\n\nThe Parliament of Australia enacts:\n\n1 Short title\n\nThis Act may be cited as the Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 2) 1998‑99.\n\n2 Commencement\n\nThis Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.\n\nSection 3\n\n3 Definitions\n\nIn this Act:\n\nParliamentary Department means:\n\n(a) the Department of the Senate; or\n\n(b) the Department of the House of Representatives; or\n\n(c) the Department of the Parliamentary Reporting Staff; or\n\n(d) the Department of the Parliamentary Library; or\n\n(e) the Joint House Department.\n\nPresident means the President of the Senate.\n\nPresiding Officer means:\n\n(a) the President; or\n\n(b) the Speaker.\n\nSpeaker means the Speaker of the House of Representatives.\n\n4 Issue and application of $ 1 129 000\n\n(1) Subject to section 5, 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 1999, the sum of $ 1 129 000.\n\n(2) The Consolidated Revenue Fund is appropriated as necessary for the purposes of subsection (1).\n\n5 Running costs\n\nIf any running costs referred to in a subdivision or Division in the Schedule include payments of remuneration or allowances to the holder of:\n\n \nSection 5\n\n(a) a public office within the meaning of the Remuneration Tribunal Act 1973; or\n\n(b) an office specified in a Schedule to the Remuneration and Allowances Act 1990;\n\nthe Minister must issue out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund the amounts necessary to meet those payments and apply them for that purpose.\n\nNote: The amounts required to be issued and applied by this section are included in the sum appropriated by section 4.\n\n6 Additional appropriation in respect of increases in salaries\n\nSection 6 of the Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act 1998‑99 has effect, on and from the commencement of this Act, as if any reference in that section to the Schedule to that Act also included a reference to the Schedule to this Act.\n\n7 Net annotated appropriations\n\nIf:\n\n(a) the description of the purpose of an appropriation set out in an item, subdivision or Division in title Schedule includes the words \"net appropriation — see section 7\"; and\n\n(b) there is in force an agreement (entered into under section 31 of the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997) between\".\n\n(i) the Minister; and\n\n(ii) the Presiding Officer or Presiding Officers responsible for the Parliamentary Department for which the appropriation is made;\n\nto the effect that payments to the Commonwealth in consideration for any service, benefit, activity, transaction or other matter specified in the agreement can be added to the\n\n \nSection 7\n\namount appropriated to the Department under the item, subdivision or Division, to the extent and on the conditions set out in the agreement;\n\nthe item, subdivision or Division is taken to specify that those payments (whether real or notional) may be credited to the item, subdivision or Division to the extent and on the conditions set out in the agreement.\n\n8 Payments to Departments out of money appropriated for the purposes of certain employment subsidy schemes or programs\n\n(1) If:\n\n(a) a payment (whether real or notional) is made to a Parliamentary Department out of money appropriated for the purposes of an approved employment subsidy scheme or program; and\n\n(b) the payment is an approved payment; and\n\n(c) an item, subdivision or Division in the Schedule appropriates money to that Department for running costs;\n\nthe item, subdivision or Division is taken to specify that the payment may be credited to the item, subdivision or Division.\n\n(2) In this section:\n\napproved employment subsidy scheme or program means an employment subsidy scheme or program determined by the Minister, under subsection 10(1) of the Appropriation Act (No. 1) 1998‑99 or subsection 10(1) of the Appropriation Act (No. 3) 1998‑99, to be an approved employment subsidy scheme or program for the purposes of that Act.\n\napproved payment means a payment (out of money appropriated for an approved employment subsidy scheme or program) declared by the Minister, under subsection 10(2) of the Appropriation Act\n\n \nSection 8\n\n(No. 1) 1998‑99 or subsection 10(2) of the Appropriation Act (No. 3) 1998‑99, to be an approved payment for the purposes of that Act.\n\n9 Payments to Departments out of The Comcover Reserve\n\nSection 9 of the Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act 1998‑99 has effect, on and from the commencement of this Act, as if the reference in subsection (1) of that section to the Schedule to that Act also included a reference to the Schedule to this Act.\n\n10 Certain amounts taken to be appropriated\n\nIf an item, subdivision or Division in the Schedule specifies that payments (whether the word \"payments\" or \"money\" or any other word is used) of a certain description may be credited to the item, subdivision or Division:\n\n(a) amounts equal to payments (whether real or notional) of that description credited to the Consolidated Revenue Fund during the financial year ending on 30 June 1999 are taken to have been appropriated for the purpose or services referred to in that item, subdivision or Division; and\n\n(b) the Minister is authorised to issue and apply those amounts accordingly.\n\n11 Consolidated Revenue Fund not to be debited after close of financial year\n\n(1) An amount appropriated under section 4 may not be debited from the Consolidated Revenue Fund after 30 June 1999.\n\n(2) Subsection (1) does not prevent the Minister from taking action after 30 June 1999:\n\n(a) to correct errors or mispostings in the financial accounting records of the Commonwealth for the year ending on that day; or\n\n \nSection 11\n\n(b) to balance the Funds (within the meaning of the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997);\n\n![](image.004.png)if the action does not result in an amount being debited from a Fund otherwise than for the purpose of being credited to another Fund.\n\n \nServices for which money is appropriated\n\nSchedule\n\nSchedule — Services for which money is appropriated\n\nNote : Sec section 4\n\n```html\n

Abstract

Page Reference

Departments and Services

Total

$

10

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

90 000

10

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

539 000

10

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

500 000

—

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

—

—

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

—

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

1 129 000

\n```\n\n \nSchedule\n\n \nSchedule\n\nSUMMARY\n\nAppropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 2) 1958‑99, Heavy figures\n\nAppropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act 1998‑99\\. Light figures\n\n```html\n

Division

Running

Costs

Other

Services

Total

$

$

$

101

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

90 080

—

90 000

25 950 000

415 000

26 365 000

104

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

539 000

—

539 000

23 994 000

415 000

24 409 000

107

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

341 000

159 000

500 000

30 159 000

3 126 000

33 285 000

108

Pariiamemary Library......................

—

—

—

15 272 000

—

15 272 000

109

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

—

—

—

34 010 000

2 549 000

36 559 000

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

970 000

159 000

1 129 000

129 385 000

6 505 000

135 890 000

\n```\n\n \nSchedule\n\n```html\n

Information with respect to previous appropriation and expenditure

Additional appropriation for 1998‑99

Appropriation made by Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments)

Act 1998‑99

Expenditure for 1997‑98

$

$

$

Division 101.—SENATE

1.— Running Costs (net appropriation — see section 7) (see also section 8)

90 000

25 950 000

23 665 242

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

90 000

Division 104.— HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

1.— Running Costs (net appropriation — see section 7) (see also section 8)

539 000

23 994 000

23 989 370

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

539 000

Division 107.— PARLIAMENTARY REPORTING STAFF

1.— Running Costs (net appropriation — see section 7) (see also section 8)

341 000

30 159 000

29 733 582

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

159 000

3 126 000

3 186 999

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

500 000

\n```\n\n\\[Minister's second reading speech made in—\n\nHouse of Representatives on 3 December 1998\n\nSenate on 25 March 1999\\]\n\n| 23466 Cat. No. 99 1008 9 ISBN 0642 40081 4 | |\n| ------------------------------------------ | --- |\n\nPrinted by Authority by the Commonwealth Government Printer (193/98)","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":true,"description":"This Act increases the appropriation for 1998–99 by $1,129,000 for Parliamentary Departments and folds that Schedule into certain provisions of the earlier Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act 1998‑99 (ss4,6,9). It also authorises the Minister to accept and credit certain receipts to departmental appropriations via agreements or ministerial declarations (ss7–10), and restricts debits after 30 June 1999 except for limited corrective or balancing actions (s11)."},"complexity_factors":["Cross‑references to multiple other Acts and instruments (Appropriation Acts No.1 & No.3 1998‑99, Remuneration Tribunal Act 1973, Remuneration and Allowances Act 1990, Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997) increase interpretive steps (see ss5–9).","Net‑appropriation mechanism depends on agreements under FMA s31, requiring negotiation and conditional crediting of receipts to items (s7).","Ministerial discretion to declare approved employment‑subsidy payments and to issue funds creates administrative discretion and implementation choices (s4, s8).","Timing constraint and accounting exceptions for year‑end accounting require careful financial controls to avoid unauthorised debits (s11).","Schedule sets numeric allocations across multiple departments and distinguishes running costs, capital and 'other services', requiring reconciliation with prior appropriations and expenditure tables."],"plain_english_summary":"This Act appropriates an additional $1,129,000 from the Consolidated Revenue Fund for specified Parliamentary Departments for the year ending 30 June 1999 and authorises the Minister to issue and apply those funds (s4). It requires the Minister to meet certain running‑cost payments tied to statutory remuneration (s5), permits agreed or minister‑declared receipts (including employment‑subsidy and Comcover receipts) to be credited to departmental appropriations (s7–10), centralises issuance discretion with the Minister and limits post‑year‑end debits (s11)."},"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-realtime","completionTokens":1160},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The Act remains strictly within its original scope as a supplementary appropriation for parliamentary departments. It provides additional funding ($1.129m) for the 1998-99 year without expanding beyond the purposes specified in the parent Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act 1998-99."},"complexity_factors":["Short, single-purpose legislation with only 11 operative sections","Minimal defined terms (only 4 definitions in section 3)","Straightforward appropriation mechanism with standard net appropriation provisions","Limited cross-referencing (only refers to related Appropriation Acts and Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997)"],"plain_english_summary":"This supplementary appropriation law provides an extra $1.129 million to Australia’s parliamentary departments for 1998–99 to meet running costs and emerging needs. Funds primarily support the House, Senate and parliamentary reporting staff and automatically cover Remuneration Tribunal pay increases; departmental income from services and employment‑program receipts can be retained under agreement with Presiding Officers.\n\nAll appropriations expire on 30 June 1999 (with accounting corrections allowed)."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/appropriation-parliamentary-departments-act-no-2-1998-99","history":"/api/acts/appropriation-parliamentary-departments-act-no-2-1998-99/history","analysis":"/api/acts/appropriation-parliamentary-departments-act-no-2-1998-99/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/appropriation-parliamentary-departments-act-no-2-1998-99/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/appropriation-parliamentary-departments-act-no-2-1998-99/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/appropriation-parliamentary-departments-act-no-2-1998-99/documents"}}