37137Cat. No. 92 6481 5

37137 Cat. No. 92 6481 5

Appropriation of $ 10 484 775 000

4. The following sums amounting in the aggregate, as appears in Schedule 1, to $10 484 775 000 are appropriated, and are taken to have been appropriated as from 1 July 1992, for the services expressed in Schedule 4 in respect of the year that commenced on that day:

(a) the sum appropriated by section 3 of the Supply Act (No. 2) 1992-93 as that Act is affected by this Act (being the sum appropriated by that section as originally in force less the amounts specified in Schedule 3, which are the amounts by which the amounts originally appropriated under the subdivisions in Schedule 2 to that Act that are specified in Schedule 3 were reduced by this Act); and

(b) the sum appropriated by section 3 of the Supply Act (No. 4) 1992-93; and

(c) the sum specified in section 3 of this Act.

Payments to States

5. (1) In this section and in determinations for the purposes of paragraph (2)(a) or (b):

“Appropriation Act” means an Act appropriating money for expenditure in respect of a financial year and includes an Act appropriating money, by way of interim provision, for such expenditure.

(2) Payments out of such money appropriated by this Act as is specified in the Division, or unit of a Division, in Schedule 4 that is specified in column 2 of an item in Schedule 2, being payments that are made to a State for a purpose specified in column 3 of that item, must be made:

(a) on such terms and conditions (if any) as are from time to time determined, in writing, for the purposes of Appropriation Acts, by the Minister specified in column 4 of that item, as being terms and conditions applicable to payments under such Acts to a State for that purpose; and

(b) in such amounts and at such times as are determined, in writing, by the Minister specified in column 5 of that item.

(3) Payments to a State out of such of the money appropriated by this Act as is specified in Division 977 in Schedule 4 must be made in accordance with any determinations of the Treasurer as to the amounts and times of payments.

(4) Nothing in this section limits, by implication, the power of the Commonwealth to make payments to a Territory, a local Government body, a body corporate, an organisation or a natural person for any purposes for which money is appropriated under Appropriation Acts:

(a) on such terms and conditions; and

(b) in such amounts and at such times;

as the Commonwealth determines.

Money appropriated for a program

6. If money is appropriated by this Act for a particular program, that money is taken to be appropriated for: