{"id":"BILL-r7329","name":"Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 1) 2025-2026","slug":"appropriation-parliamentary-departments-bill-no-1-2025-2026","collection":"bill","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":446066,"registerId":"commonwealth-BILL-r7329-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-05-05","status":"royal_assent","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"retrieval-0001","sectionType":"document_chunk","heading":"Document excerpt 1","content":"# Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 1) 2025-2026\n\nSource: https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/Bills_Search_Results/Result?bId=r7329\n\n## APH summary\n\nSummary\n\nAppropriates money out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for expenditure in relation to the parliamentary departments.\n\n## Parliamentary progress\n\nProgress\n\nHouse of Representatives\n\nIntroduced and read a first time\n\n25 Mar 2025\n\nSecond reading moved\n\n25 Mar 2025\n\nLapsed at dissolution\n\n28 Mar 2025\n\n## Official APH document links\n\n- First reading: https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22legislation%2Fbills%2Fr7329_first-reps%2F0000%22;rec=0\n- Explanatory memorandum: https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22legislation%2Fems%2Fr7329_ems_fc8957c3-855a-46b3-adf7-49781b5689ae%22\n- All second reading speeches: https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/Bills_Search_Results/Result/Second_Reading_Speeches?BillId=r7329\n- Minister's second reading speech: https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22chamber%2Fhansardr%2F28772%2F0215%22\n\n## Enacted Act text\n\nSource: https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2025A00049/latest/text\n\nAppropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 1) 2025-2026\n\nNo. 49, 2025\n\nAn Act to appropriate money out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for expenditure in relation to the Parliamentary Departments, and for related purposes\n\nContents\n\nPart 1,Preliminary\t2\n\n1\tShort title\t2\n\n2\tCommencement\t2\n\n3\tDefinitions\t2\n\n4\tPortfolio statements\t4\n\n5\tNotional transactions between entities that are part of the Commonwealth\t4\n\nPart 2,Appropriation items\t5\n\n6\tSummary of appropriations\t5\n\n7\tDepartmental items\t5\n\n8\tAdministered items\t5\n\n9\tAdministered assets and liabilities items\t5\n\n10\tOther departmental items\t6\n\nPart 3,Advance to the responsible Presiding Officer\t7\n\n11\tAdvance to the responsible Presiding Officer\t7\n\nPart 4,Miscellaneous\t9\n\n12\tCrediting amounts to special accounts\t9\n\n13\tAppropriation of the Consolidated Revenue Fund\t9\n\n14\tRepeal of this Act\t9\n\nSchedule 1,Services for which money is appropriated\t10\n\nAppropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 1) 2025-2026\n\nNo. 49, 2025\n\nAn Act to appropriate money out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for expenditure in relation to the Parliamentary Departments, and for related purposes\n\n[Assented to 29 October 2025]\n\nThe Parliament of Australia enacts:\n\nPart 1,Preliminary\n\n1 Short title\n\nThis Act is the Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 1) 2025-2026.\n\n2 Commencement\n\n(1)\tEach 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\nCommencement information\n\nColumn 1\n\nColumn 2\n\nColumn 3\n\nProvisions\n\nCommencement\n\nDate/Details\n\n1. The whole of this Act\n\nThe day this Act receives the Royal Assent.\n\n29 October 2025\n\nNote:\tThis 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)\tAny 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.\n\n3 Definitions\n\nIn this Act:\n\nadministered assets and liabilities item means an amount set out in Schedule 1 in relation to a Parliamentary Department opposite the heading “Administered Assets and Liabilities”.\n\nadministered item means an amount set out in Schedule 1 opposite an outcome for a Parliamentary Department under the heading “Administered”.\n\ncurrent year means the financial year ending on 30 June 2026.\n\ndepartmental item means the total amount set out in Schedule 1 in relation to a Parliamentary Department under the heading “Departmental”.\n\nNote:\tThe amounts set out opposite outcomes, under the heading “Departmental”, are “notional”. They are not part of the item, and do not in any way restrict the scope of the expenditure authorised by the item.\n\nexpenditure means payments for expenses, acquiring assets, making loans or paying liabilities.\n\nitem means any of the following:\n\n(a)\ta departmental item;\n\n(b)\tan administered item;\n\n(c)\tan administered assets and liabilities item;\n\n(d)\tan other departmental item.\n\nnon‑corporate entity means:\n\n(a)\ta non‑corporate Commonwealth entity within the meaning of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013; or\n\n(b)\tthe High Court.\n\nNote:\tEach Parliamentary Department is a non‑corporate Commonwealth entity for the purposes of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013.\n\nother departmental item means an amount set out in Schedule 1 in relation to a Parliamentary Department opposite the heading “Equity Injections”.\n\nParliamentary Department means any of the following:\n\n(a)\tthe Department of the Senate;\n\n(b)\tthe Department of the House of Representatives;\n\n(c)\tthe Department of Parliamentary Services;\n\n(d)\tthe Parliamentary Budget Office.\n\nPortfolio Budget Statements means the Portfolio Budget Statements 2025-26.\n\nportfolio statements means the Portfolio Budget Statements.\n\nPresident means the President of the Senate.\n\nresponsible Presiding Officer means:\n\n(a)\tin relation to the Department of the Senate,the President; or\n\n(b)\tin relation to the Department of the House of Representatives,the Speaker; or\n\n(c)\tin relation to the Department of Parliamentary Services,the President and the Speaker together; or\n\n(d)\tin relation to the Parliamentary Budget Office,the President and the Speaker together.\n\nSpeaker means the Speaker of the House of Representatives.\n\nspecial account has the same meaning as in the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013.\n\n4 Portfolio statements\n\nThe portfolio statements are declared to be relevant documents for the purposes of section 15AB of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901.\n\nNote:\tSee 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.\n\n5 Notional transactions between entities that are part of the Commonwealth\n\nFor the purposes of this Act, notional transactions between non‑corporate entities are to be treated as if they were real transactions.\n\nNote:\tThis 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.\n\nPart 2,Appropriation items\n\n6 Summary of appropriations\n\nThe total of the items specified in Schedule 1 is $195,149,000.\n\nNote 1:\tItems in Schedule 1 can be adjusted under Part 3 of this Act.\n\nNote 2:\tSections 74 to 75 of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 also provide for the adjustment of amounts appropriated by this Act.\n\n7 Departmental items\n\nThe amount specified in a departmental item for a Parliamentary Department may be applied for the departmental expenditure of the Parliamentary Department.\n\n8 Administered items\n\n(1)\tThe amount specified in an administered item for an outcome for a Parliamentary Department may be applied for expenditure for the purpose of contributing to achieving that outcome.\n\n(2)\tIf 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.\n\n9 Administered assets and liabilities items\n\n(1)\tThe amount specified in an administered assets and liabilities item for a Parliamentary Department may be applied for expenditure for the purpose of contributing to achieving any outcome specified in Schedule 1 for the Parliamentary Department.\n\n(2)\tIf 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.\n\n10 Other departmental items\n\nThe amount specified in an other departmental item for a Parliamentary Department may be applied for the departmental expenditure of the Parliamentary Department.\n\nPart 3,Advance to the responsible Presiding Officer\n\n11 Advance to the responsible Presiding Officer\n\n(1)\tThis section applies if the responsible Presiding Officer is satisfied that there is an urgent need for expenditure in relation to a Parliamentary Department, in the current year, that is not provided for, or is insufficiently provided for, in Schedule 1:\n\n(a)\tbecause of an erroneous omission or understatement; or\n\n(b)\tbecause the expenditure was unforeseen until after the last day on which it was practicable to provide for it in the Bill for this Act before that Bill was introduced into the House of Representatives.\n\n(2)\tThis Act has effect as if Schedule 1 were amended, in accordance with a determination of the responsible Presiding Officer, to make provision for so much (if any) of the expenditure as the responsible Presiding Officer determines.\n\n(3)\tThe total of the amounts determined under subsection (2) of this section and subsection 11(2) of the Supply (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 1) 2025-2026 for the Department of the Senate cannot be more than $300,000.\n\n(4)\tThe total of the amounts determined under subsection (2) of this section and subsection 11(2) of the Supply (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 1) 2025-2026 for the Department of the House of Representatives cannot be more than $300,000.\n\n(5)\tThe total of the amounts determined under subsection (2) of this section and subsection 11(2) of the Supply (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 1) 2025-2026 for the Department of Parliamentary Services cannot be more than $1 million.\n\n(6)\tThe total of the amounts determined under subsection (2) of this section and subsection 11(2) of the Supply (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 1) 2025-2026 for the Parliamentary Budget Office cannot be more than $300,000.\n\n(7)\tA determination made under subsection (2) is a legislative instrument, but neither section 42 (disallowance) nor Part 4 of Chapter 3 (sunsetting) of the Legislation Act 2003 applies to the determination.\n\nNo further advances under Supply Act\n\n(8)\tA responsible Presiding Officer must not make a determination under subsection 11(2) of the Supply (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 1) 2025-2026 after this section commences.\n\nPart 4,Miscellaneous\n\n12 Crediting amounts to special accounts\n\nIf any of the purposes of a special account is a purpose that is covered by an item (whether or not the item expressly refers to the special account), then amounts may be debited against the appropriation for that item and credited to that special account.\n\n13 Appropriation of the Consolidated Revenue Fund\n\nThe Consolidated Revenue Fund is appropriated as necessary for the purposes of this Act, including the operation of this Act as affected by the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013.\n\n14 Repeal of this Act\n\nThis Act is repealed at the start of 1 July 2028.\n\nSchedule 1,Services for which money is appropriated\n\nNote:\tSee sections 6 and 13.\n\nAbstract\n\nDepartment\n\nTotal\n\n$'000\n\nDepartment of the Senate\n\n17,061\n\nDepartment of the House of Representatives\n\n17,555\n\nDepartment of Parliamentary Services\n\n155,013\n\nParliamentary Budget Office\n\n5,520\n\nTotal\n\n195,149\n\nAPPROPRIATIONS\n\nSUMMARY\n\nSummary of Appropriations (plain figures),2025‑2026\n\nActual Available Appropriation (italic figures),2024‑2025\n\nEntity\n\nDepartmental\n\nAdministered\n\nNon- operating\n\nTotal\n\n$'000\n\n$'000\n\n$'000\n\n$'000\n\nDepartment of the Senate\n\n17,061\n\n‑\n\n‑\n\n17,061\n\n29,061\n\n‑\n\n‑\n\n29,061\n\nDepartment of the House of\n\n17,344\n\n211\n\n‑\n\n17,555\n\nRepresentatives\n\n29,801\n\n357\n\n‑\n\n30,158\n\nDepartment of Parliamentary Services\n\n122,371\n\n3,683\n\n28,959\n\n155,013\n\n210,169\n\n6,432\n\n41,133\n\n257,734\n\nParliamentary Budget Office\n\n5,520\n\n‑\n\n‑\n\n5,520\n\n9,895\n\n‑\n\n‑\n\n9,895\n\nTotal: Parliamentary Departments\n\n162,296\n\n3,894\n\n28,959\n\n195,149\n\n278,926\n\n6,789\n\n41,133\n\n326,848\n\nPARLIAMENT\n\nAppropriation (plain figures),2025‑2026\n\nActual Available Appropriation (italic figures),2024‑2025\n\nDepartmental\n\nAdministered\n\nTotal\n\n$'000\n\n$'000\n\n$'000\n\nDEPARTMENT OF THE SENATE\n\nOperating\n\nOutcome 1 ‑\n\nAdvisory and administrative support services to\n\n17,061\n\n‑\n\n17,061\n\nenable the Senate and Senators to fulfil their\n\n29,061\n\n‑\n\n29,061\n\nrepresentative and legislative duties\n\nTotal: Department of the Senate\n\n17,061\n\n‑\n\n17,061\n\n29,061\n\n‑\n\n29,061\n\nPARLIAMENT\n\nAppropriation (plain figures),2025‑2026\n\nActual Available Appropriation (italic figures),2024‑2025\n\nDepartmental\n\nAdministered\n\nTotal\n\n$'000\n\n$'000\n\n$'000\n\nDEPARTMENT OF THE HOUSE OF\n\nREPRESENTATIVES\n\nOperating\n\nOutcome 1 ‑\n\nAdvisory and administrative services support the\n\n17,344\n\n211\n\n17,555\n\nHouse of Representatives to fulfil its\n\n29,801\n\n357\n\n30,158\n\nrepresentative and legislative role\n\nTotal: Department of the House of\n\n17,344\n\n211\n\n17,555\n\nRepresentatives\n\n29,801\n\n357\n\n30,158\n\nPARLIAMENT\n\nAppropriation (plain figures),2025‑2026\n\nActual Available Appropriation (italic figures),2024‑2025\n\nDepartmental\n\nAdministered\n\nTotal\n\n$'000\n\n$'000\n\n$'000\n\nDEPARTMENT OF PARLIAMENTARY\n\nSERVICES\n\nOperating\n\nOutcome 1 ‑\n\nSupport the functions of Parliament and\n\n122,371\n\n3,683\n\n126,054\n\nparliamentarians through the provision of\n\n210,169\n\n6,432\n\n216,601\n\nprofessional services, advice and facilities and\n\nmaintain Australian Parliament House\n\nTotal: Operating\n\n122,371\n\n3,683\n\n126,054\n\n210,169\n\n6,432\n\n216,601\n\nNon‑operating\n\nAdministered Assets and Liabilities\n\n28,959\n\n41,133\n\nTotal: Non‑operating\n\n28,959\n\n41,133\n\nTotal: Department of Parliamentary Services\n\n122,371\n\n3,683\n\n155,013\n\n210,169\n\n6,432\n\n257,734\n\nPARLIAMENT\n\nAppropriation (plain figures),2025‑2026\n\nActual Available Appropriation (italic figures),2024‑2025\n\nDepartmental\n\nAdministered\n\nTotal\n\n$'000\n\n$'000\n\n$'000\n\nPARLIAMENTARY BUDGET OFFICE\n\nOperating\n\nOutcome 1 ‑\n\nInform the Parliament by providing independent\n\n5,520\n\n‑\n\n5,520\n\nand non‑partisan analysis of the budget cycle,\n\n9,895\n\n‑\n\n9,895\n\nfiscal policy and the financial implications of\n\nproposals\n\nTotal: Parliamentary Budget Office\n\n5,520\n\n‑\n\n5,520\n\n9,895\n\n‑\n\n9,895\n\n[Minister’s second reading speech made in,\n\nHouse of Representatives on 30 July 2025\n\nSenate on 27 October 2025]\n\n(45/25)","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"summary":{"status_summary":"This Act received royal assent on 29 October 2025.","complexity_score":3,"likely_questions":["How are the appropriated funds divided among the parliamentary departments?","What mechanisms exist for additional urgent funding under this Act?"],"complexity_factors":["Detailed breakdown of appropriations across multiple departments","Provisions for advances to Presiding Officers with specific caps"],"plain_english_summary":"This Act appropriates $195,149,000 from the Consolidated Revenue Fund for 2025–26 to the Department of the Senate, the Department of the House of Representatives, Parliamentary Services and the Parliamentary Budget Office to fund departmental operations, administered programs and non‑operating costs. It also authorises limited advances for urgent post‑introduction spending (capped per entity) and takes effect on royal assent (29 Oct 2025) until repeal on 1 July 2028.\n\nWho it affects: parliamentary departments, parliamentarians, staff and the public relying on parliamentary services."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This Act performs the routine appropriation function for parliamentary departments for the 2025–26 year. It does not expand the objects or functions of the parliamentary departments beyond funding their operations, outcomes and capital needs; the principal novel mechanics are procedural (declaring portfolio statements relevant, treating notional transactions as real, and providing a limited post‑enactment advance mechanism). Those mechanics adjust interpretation and administrative process rather than materially altering the Act's narrow funding purpose."},"complexity_factors":["Short, single-purpose appropriation Act focused on four entities (low structural complexity)","About 15 defined terms in section 3 that frame item types and key actors (definitions affect interpretation)","Schedule 1 lists 4 departmental totals and line items (moderate numerical detail)","Cross-references to other statutes: Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 (PGPA Act), Supply (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 1) 2025-2026, Acts Interpretation Act 1901, and the Legislation Act 2003","Notional transactions rule (section 5) changes accounting treatment and requires knowledge of PGPA accounting practice","Advance mechanism (section 11) contains conditional logic and aggregation with Supply Act amounts and specific numeric caps","Legislative-instrument carve-out for determinations in section 11(7) (procedural exception reduces ordinary review pathways)","Repeal clause (section 14) fixes temporal scope but adds lifecycle consideration"],"plain_english_summary":"**What this law does (mechanics)\n\n- Appropriates $195,149,000 from the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the 2025–26 financial year for the four parliamentary departments: the Department of the Senate, the Department of the House of Representatives, the Department of Parliamentary Services, and the Parliamentary Budget Office (Schedule 1; section 6).\n\n- Breaks the money down into types of items: \"departmental\" (for the departments' own operations), \"administered\" (amounts applied to achieving specified outcomes), \"administered assets and liabilities\" (non‑operating items such as asset purchases or liability movements), and \"other departmental\" (equity injections) (section 3 definitions; Parts 2 and Schedule 1).\n\n- Declares the Portfolio Budget Statements (the departments' budget papers) to be relevant documents for interpreting the Act (section 4). This means those statements can be used to decide whether particular activities count toward an outcome or item (sections 8 and 9).\n\n- Treats internal (notional) transactions between non‑corporate Commonwealth entities (including the parliamentary departments) as if they were real transactions for appropriation purposes. In practice, that means an internal transfer between two parliamentary departments can be debited against the paying department's appropriation even if no cash leaves the Consolidated Revenue Fund (section 5).\n\n- Allows the responsible Presiding Officer(s) (President and/or Speaker, depending on the department) to make a determination to add urgent, unforeseen or erroneously omitted expenditure to the Schedule after the Act is made, up to set caps and subject to aggregation with amounts made under the matching Supply Act. The totals that can be added (when combined with the Supply Act determinations) are capped at $300,000 for each of the Department of the Senate and the Department of the House of Representatives, $1,000,000 for the Department of Parliamentary Services, and $300,000 for the Parliamentary Budget Office (section 11).\n\n- Provides that such a determination by a Presiding Officer is a legislative instrument but exempts it from parliamentary disallowance and sunsetting provisions that would otherwise apply (section 11(7)).\n\n- Allows amounts to be debited against an appropriation and credited to special accounts where a special account's purpose is covered by an item (section 12).\n\n- Appropriates the Consolidated Revenue Fund as necessary to give effect to the Act and relevant provisions of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 (PGPA Act) (section 13), and it is scheduled to be repealed from 1 July 2028 (section 14).\n\n\nWhy it matters (stated purpose and how that works in practice)\n\n- Stated purpose: to provide the legal authority to spend public money on the day‑to‑day operations, outcomes and capital needs of the parliamentary departments for 2025–26 (title, explanatory schedule).\n\n- Practical effect: it gives departmental leaders and accounting officers the authority to draw on specified appropriations for operating costs, capital works, asset purchases and other authorised transactions, subject to the PGPA Act and the interpretation rules set out here (sections 6–10; section 5 regarding notional transactions).\n\n\nWho pays and who decides\n\n- Who pays: money is drawn from the Consolidated Revenue Fund (the central pool for Commonwealth revenue) (section 13).\n\n- Who decides spending within appropriations: departmental officials acting under the PGPA Act and departmental governance arrangements decide how to apply the departmental appropriations for their authorised purposes. For urgent additions after the Act is made, the responsible Presiding Officer(s) make the unilateral determination to amend Schedule 1 within the statutory caps (section 11).\n\n\nImplementation, incentives, trade-offs and administrative effects\n\n- Oversight and interpretation tools: declaring the Portfolio Budget Statements as relevant (section 4) makes those published budget documents a formal interpretative aid for determining whether an activity is within an outcome. This reduces ambiguity about whether certain expenditures fall within an appropriation (sections 8–9), but relies on the accuracy of those statements.\n\n- Internal accounting: treating notional transactions as real (section 5) simplifies intra‑Commonwealth accounting—internal reallocations count against the paying entity’s appropriation even when no cash moves from the CRF—but it also means apparent appropriation usage may be driven by internal charging rather than external spending.\n\n- Urgent spending mechanism: the advance power (section 11) centralises a degree of post‑enactment discretion in the Presiding Officer(s) to address omissions or unforeseen needs. The power is limited by modest numeric caps and by aggregation rules with the matching Supply Act, which limits fiscal exposure for the year. The determinations are legislative instruments but are exempted from disallowance and sunsetting (section 11(7)), reducing ordinary parliamentary review of those specific adjustments.\n\n- Interaction with the PGPA Act and Supply Act: the Act relies on the PGPA Act for routine adjustments and financial governance (see sections 5, 6, 13 and notes). That imposes standard Commonwealth financial management and reporting obligations on the departments; it also means some adjustments can be made without further primary legislation (PGPA mechanisms and the Supply Act linkages).\n\n- Concentration of benefit and diffuse cost: the direct financial benefit is concentrated on the four parliamentary departments (Schedule 1). The cost is borne by the Consolidated Revenue Fund and therefore by taxpayers generally.\n\n- Impact on third parties: most effects are internal to parliamentary operations. The largest item (Department of Parliamentary Services) funds services and maintenance of Parliament House and thus affects suppliers and contractors to that estate, but the Act simply authorises spending rather than prescribing procurement choices.\n\n\nKey provisions to note (section pointers)\n\n- Total appropriation and schedule: section 6 and Schedule 1 (total $195,149,000 and line items by department).\n- Definitions and item types: section 3 (departmental, administered, other departmental, administered assets and liabilities).\n- Portfolio statements as interpretative aids: section 4; linked to sections 8–9.\n- Notional transactions rule: section 5.\n- Advance/urgent expenditure mechanism and caps: section 11 (including the disallowance/sunsetting exemption at subsection 11(7)).\n- Crediting to special accounts: section 12.\n- Appropriation of the Consolidated Revenue Fund and interplay with PGPA: section 13.\n- Repeal date: section 14 (repealed from 1 July 2028).\n\n\nIn short: This Act legally authorises specified funding for the four parliamentary departments for 2025–26, sets out how those amounts may be applied, allows limited post‑enactment adjustments for urgent or omitted items by Presiding Officers within defined caps, and links interpretation and financial management to the departments' Portfolio Budget Statements and the PGPA Act (see sections cited above)."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/appropriation-parliamentary-departments-bill-no-1-2025-2026","history":"/api/acts/appropriation-parliamentary-departments-bill-no-1-2025-2026/history","analysis":"/api/acts/appropriation-parliamentary-departments-bill-no-1-2025-2026/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/appropriation-parliamentary-departments-bill-no-1-2025-2026/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/appropriation-parliamentary-departments-bill-no-1-2025-2026/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/appropriation-parliamentary-departments-bill-no-1-2025-2026/documents"}}