{"id":"C1936A00030","name":"Loan Appropriation Act 1936","slug":"loan-appropriation-act-1936","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"30 of 1936","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":3804,"registerId":"commonwealth-C1936A00030-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-03-30","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Loan Appropriation Act 1936","content":"LOAN APPROPRIATION.\n\nNo. 30 of 1936.\n\nAn Act to authorize the Expending of a certain Sum of Money.\n\n\\[Assented to 26th September, 1936.\\]\n\nBE it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, 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 Loan Appropriation Act 1936.\n\nIssue and application of £600,000.\n\n2. There may be issued and applied, out of the proceeds of any Loan raised under the authority of any Loan Act, the sum of Six hundred thousand pounds for the purposes set forth in the Schedule to this Act.\n\nTHE SCHEDULE.\n\n| —                                                        | Appropriated by this Act. |\n| -------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------- |\n| POSTMASTER-GENERAL’S DEPARTMENT.                         |                           |\n| Under Control of the Postmaster-General’s Department.    | £                         |\n| Telephone Exchange Services............................. | 600,000                   |\n| Total.............................                       | 600,000                   |","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":1450},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The legislation remains precisely limited to its original purpose: the specific appropriation of £600,000 for telephone exchange services under the Postmaster-General's Department. There is no evidence of scope creep, regulatory expansion, or additional purposes being grafted onto the original intent."},"complexity_factors":["Single operative provision (section 2) containing the entire legal mechanism","Only one appropriation item listed in the Schedule","No definitions section or interpretation clause","No conditional language, exceptions, or nested provisions","Total text under 150 words","No cross-references to other legislation beyond generic reference to 'any Loan Act'"],"plain_english_summary":"This law gives the Australian Government legal authority to spend **£600,000** on **telephone exchange services**.\n\n**The basics:**\n- **Where the money comes from:** The funds are drawn from proceeds of government loans raised under other Loan Acts (essentially, money the government has borrowed).\n- **What it's for:** Building or upgrading telephone exchange infrastructure — the mechanical and technical systems that connected phone calls in the era before modern digital networks.\n- **Who spends it:** The Postmaster-General's Department (the government body that ran Australia's postal services, telephones, and telegraphs at the time).\n\n**Why this matters:**\nParliament must approve every dollar the government spends. This is an **appropriation Act** — a short, specific law that unlocks the chequebook for a single purpose. In 1936, telephone exchanges were critical national infrastructure, and this Act allowed the government to expand or modernize that network using borrowed funds."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/loan-appropriation-act-1936","history":"/api/acts/loan-appropriation-act-1936/history","analysis":"/api/acts/loan-appropriation-act-1936/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/loan-appropriation-act-1936/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/loan-appropriation-act-1936/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/loan-appropriation-act-1936/documents"}}