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This Act may be cited as the Appropriation Act (No. 2) 1998‑99.
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This Act has been repealed and is no longer in force. It is retained for historical reference.
This federal appropriation authorises $4.171 billion from the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the 1998–99 year, funding health, aged care, social security, education, environment, transport, Indigenous programs, Olympic support, and major payments to states and territories. It affects virtually all Australians by enabling core public services and shared programs.
It also creates a $215 million contingency advance to the Finance Minister and provides one‑off allocations (notably Y2K readiness and a new Comcover insurance fund), all expiring 30 June 1999.
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1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the Appropriation Act (No. 2) 1998‑99.
2 Commencement
This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
3 Definitions
In this Act:
Agency has the same meaning as in the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997.
4 Issue and application of $ 4 171 699 000
(1) The Minister may issue out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund and apply for the services specified in Schedule 2, in respect of the year ending on 30 June 1999, the sum of $ 4 171 699 000.
(2) The Consolidated Revenue Fund is appropriated as necessary for the purposes of subsection (1).
5 Payments to or for the States
(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.
State includes the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory.
(2) Payments out of such money appropriated by this Act as is specified in the Division, or unit of a Division, in Scheduled that is specified in column 2 of an item in Schedule 1, being payments that are made to or for a State for a purpose specified in column 3 of that item, must be made:
(a) on the terms and conditions (if any) that 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 those Acts to or for a State for the purpose specified in column 3 of that item; and
(b) in the amounts and at the times that are determined, in writing, by the Minister specified in column 5 of that item.
(3) Payments to or for a State out of such of the money appropriated by this Act as is specified in Division 977 in Schedule 2 must be made in the amounts and at the times determined by the Treasurer.
(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 an individual for any purposes for which money is appropriated under Appropriation Acts:
(a) on the terms and conditions; and
(b) in the amounts and at the times;
that the Commonwealth determines.
6 Money appropriated for a program
If money is appropriated by this Act for a particular program, that money is taken to be appropriated for:
(a) the purpose of payments (including advances) under Acts administered as part of the program; and
(b) any other purposes of the program.
7 Payments to Agencies out of The Comcover Reserve
Under section 11 of the Appropriation Act (No. 1) 1998‑99, amounts received by an Agency out of The Comcover Reserve during the year ending on 30 June 1999 may be credited to an item, subdivision or Division in Schedule 2 to this Act.
8 Certain amounts taken to be appropriated
If an item, subdivision or Division in Schedule 2 specifies, or is taken to specify, mat 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:
(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
(b) the Minister is authorised to issue and apply those amounts accordingly.
9 Advance to Minister for Finance and Administration
Any expenditure:
(a) in excess of a specific appropriation; or
(b) not specifically provided for by appropriation;
may be charged to an item, subdivision or Division in Schedule 2 as the Minister directs but the total expenditure so charged in the year ending on 30 June 1999, after deduction of amounts of repayments, must not at any time exceed the amount appropriated for that year under the head "Advance to the Minister for Finance and Administration".
10 Department of Finance and Administration
If a body known as ComSuper, or as ComSuper Limited, is established by legislation or under the provisions of the Corporations Law before 1 July 1999, this Act has effect, and is taken at all times to have had effect, as if the appropriation of an amount to the Department of Finance and Administration under items 02 and 03 of Division 862 in Schedule 2 were:
(a) an appropriation for payment to the body of so much of each of those amounts as is determined, in writing, by the Minister to be required for the purposes of the body in respect of the period commencing on the establishment of the body and ending on 30 June 1999; and
(b) an appropriation of the balance of each of those amounts to the Department for the purposes stated in those items.
11 Department of Health and Family Services
(1) If a body known as CRS Australia Limited is established under the provisions of the Corporations Law before 1 July 1999, this Act has effect, and is taken at all times to have had effect, as if the appropriation of an amount to the Department of Health and Family Services under item 02 of subdivision 2 of Division 890 in Schedule 2 were:
(a) an appropriation to the body of so much of that amount as is determined, in writing, by the Minister to be required for the purposes of the body in respect of the period commencing on the establishment of the body and ending on 30 June 1999; and
(b) an appropriation of the balance of that amount to the Department for the purpose stated in that item.
(2) If a body known as Australian Hearing Limited is established under the provisions of the Corporations Law before 1 July 1999, this Act has effect, and is taken at all times to have had effect, as if the appropriation of an amount to the Department of Health and Family Services under item 03 of subdivision 2 of Division 890 in Schedule 2 were:
(a) an appropriation to the body of so much of that amount as is determined, in writing, by the Minister to be required for the purposes of the body in respect of the period commencing on the establishment of the body and ending on 30 June 1999; and
(b) an appropriation of the balance of that amount to the Department for the purpose stated in that item.
12 Consolidated Revenue Fund not to be debited after close of financial year
(1) An amount appropriated under section 4 may not be debited from the Consolidated Revenue Fund after 30 June 1999.
(2) Subsection (1) does not prevent the Minister from taking action after 30 June 1999:
(a) to correct errors or mispostings in the financial accounting records of the Commonwealth for the year ending on that day; or
(b) to balance the Funds (within the meaning of the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997);
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Schedule 1 — Payments to or for the States
Note : See section 5
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 | Column 4 | Column 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Item No. | Division, &c. | Purpose | Minister determining conditions | Minister determining payments |
| 1 | Division 821 | Transfer of Repatriation General Hospitals. | Minister for Veterans' Affairs | Minister for Veterans' Affairs |
| 2 | Division 849 | Tasmanian Regional Forest Agreement for payment to Tasmanian State Government. | Minister for the Environment | Minister for the Environment |
| Payment to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority for payment to Queensland for the day‑to‑day management in relation to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. | ||||
| Payments to the States for the management of World Heritage Properties. | ||||
| Payment to Queensland for the Sugar Coast Environment Rescue Package. | ||||
| 3 | Division 861 | Natural disaster relief and restoration. | Minister for Finance and Administration | Minister for Finance and Administration |
| 4 | Subdivision 1 of Division 891 | National Public Health. | Minister for Health and Family Services | Minister for Health and Family Services |
| 5 | Subdivision 2 of Division 891 | Innovative health services for homeless youth. | Minister for Health and Family Services | Minister for Health and Family Services |
| Grants for provision of health services (including payments made under the Health Insurance Act 1973). | ||||
| Blood Transfusion Services. | ||||
| University Departments of Rural Health. | ||||
| National youth suicide prevention strategy. | ||||
| 6 | Subdivision 3 of Division 891 | Aged care assessment. | Minister for Family Services | Minister for Family Services |
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 | Column 4 | Column 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Item No. | Division, &c. | Purpose | Minister determining conditions | Minister determining payments |
| 7 | Subdivision 4 of Division 891 | Commonwealth/State Disability Agreements. | Minister for Family Services | Minister for Family Services |
| 8 | Subdivision 5 of Division 891 | Child care assistance. Other services for families with children. | Minister for Family Services | Minister for Family Services |
| 9 | Subdivision 6 of Division 891 | Home and Community Care (for expenditure under the Home and Community Care Act 1985). | Minister for Family Services | Minister for Family Services |
| 10 | Subdivision 7 of Division 891 | Supported accommodation assistance program (for expenditure under the Supported Accommodation Assistance Act 1994). | Minister for Family Services | Minister for Family Services |
| Supported accommodation assistance program — National case management and data strategies. | ||||
| Domestic violence — Support for families. | ||||
| 11 | Division 916 | Enterprise development program. | Minister for Industry, Science and Tourism | Minister for Industry, Science and Tourism |
| Assistance for the textile, clothing and footwear industries. | ||||
| 12 | Item 2 of Division 916 | Assistance to the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games. | Minister for Sport and Tourism | Minister for Sport and Tourism |
| 13 | Subdivision 1 of Division 931 | Payment to the Northern Territory in lieu of uranium royalties. | Minister for Primary Industries and Energy | Minister for Primary Industries and Energy |
| Tasmanian wheat freight — Shipping. | ||||
| 14 | Subdivision 2 of Division 931 | Forest industry structural adjustment package. | Minister for Primary Industries and Energy | Minister for Primary Industries and Energy |
| Rural adjustment under the States Grants (Rural Adjustment) Act 1988 and the Rural Adjustment Act 1992. |
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 | Column 4 | Column 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Item No. | Division, &c. | Purpose | Minister determining conditions | Minister determining payments |
| 14 | Subdivision 2 of Division 931 (continued) | Commonwealth/New South Wales forest industry package. | Minister for Primary Industries and Energy | Minister for Primary Industries and Energy |
| Payments to State rural assistance authorities for administration costs associated with exceptional circumstances. | ||||
| National landcare program — Payment to the States for the purpose of the Natural Resources Management (Financial Assistance) Act 1992. | ||||
| New South Wales sugar export industry. | ||||
| Sugar industry program. | ||||
| Tasmanian Regional Forest Agreement— Payment to the Tasmanian State Government | ||||
| Farm business and community programs. | ||||
| 15 | Subdivision 3 of Division 931 | Exotic disease preparedness program — Feral animal control. | Minister for Primary Industries and Energy | Minister for Primary Industries and Energy |
| Remote sensing of land coverage. | ||||
| 16 | Division 938 | For expenditure under Part 9 of the Native Title Act 1993. | Special Minister of State | Special Minister of State |
| 17 | Division 949 | Compensation for extension of fringe benefits to pensioners and older long‑term allowees and beneficiaries. | Minister for Social Security | Minister for Social Security |
| Social housing subsidy program. | ||||
| Commonwealth State Housing Agreement (for expenditure under the Housing Assistance Act 1996). |
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 | Column 4 | Column 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Item No. | Division, &c. | Purpose | Minister determining conditions | Minister determining payments |
| 18 | Division 971 | Payment to the Australian Capital Territory — Assistance for water and sewerage services. | Minister for Transport and Regional Development | Minister for Transport and Regional Development |
| Payment to the Australian Capital Territory — Payment to compensate for the effects of national capital influences on the cost of providing municipal services. |
Services for which money is appropriated
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Appropriation Act (No. 2) 1998‑99
No. 71, 1998
An Act to appropriate money out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for certain expenditure in respect of the year ending on 30 June 1999, and for related purposes
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text-align:right; font-size:11pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span>1</span></p></td><td style="width:351.5pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="text-align:justify; font-size:11pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span>Short title</span><span style="width:307.81pt; font-family:'Lucida Console', monospace; display:inline-block">..............................................</span></p></td><td style="width:26.45pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:bottom; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="margin-right:7.2pt; text-align:right; font-size:11pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span>1</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:1pt"><td style="width:65.5pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="margin-right:7.2pt; text-align:right; font-size:11pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span>2</span></p></td><td style="width:351.5pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="text-align:justify; font-size:11pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span>Commencement</span><span style="width:279.41pt; font-family:'Lucida Console', monospace; display:inline-block">..........................................</span></p></td><td style="width:26.45pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:bottom; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="margin-right:7.2pt; text-align:right; font-size:11pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span>1</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:1pt"><td style="width:65.5pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="margin-right:7.2pt; text-align:right; font-size:11pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span>3</span></p></td><td style="width:351.5pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="text-align:justify; font-size:11pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span>Definitions</span><span style="width:302.01pt; font-family:'Lucida Console', monospace; display:inline-block">.............................................</span></p></td><td style="width:26.45pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:bottom; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="margin-right:7.2pt; text-align:right; font-size:11pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span>1</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:1pt"><td style="width:65.5pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="margin-right:7.2pt; text-align:right; font-size:11pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span>4</span></p></td><td style="width:351.5pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="text-align:justify; font-size:11pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span>Issue and application of $ 4 171 699 000</span><span style="width:172.48pt; font-family:'Lucida Console', monospace; display:inline-block">..........................</span></p></td><td style="width:26.45pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:bottom; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="margin-right:7.2pt; text-align:right; font-size:11pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span>2</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:1pt"><td style="width:65.5pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="margin-right:7.2pt; text-align:right; font-size:11pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span>5</span></p></td><td style="width:351.5pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="text-align:justify; font-size:11pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span>Payments to or for the States</span><span style="width:224.72pt; font-family:'Lucida Console', monospace; display:inline-block">.................................</span></p></td><td style="width:26.45pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:bottom; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="margin-right:7.2pt; text-align:right; font-size:11pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span>2</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:1pt"><td style="width:65.5pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="margin-right:7.2pt; text-align:right; font-size:11pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span>6</span></p></td><td style="width:351.5pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="text-align:justify; font-size:11pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span>Money appropriated for a program</span><span style="width:198.78pt; font-family:'Lucida Console', monospace; display:inline-block">.............................</span></p></td><td style="width:26.45pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:bottom; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="margin-right:7.2pt; text-align:right; font-size:11pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span>3</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:1pt"><td style="width:65.5pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="margin-right:7.2pt; text-align:right; font-size:11pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span>7</span></p></td><td style="width:351.5pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="text-align:justify; font-size:11pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span>Payments to Agencies out of The Comcover Reserve</span><span style="width:118.42pt; font-family:'Lucida Console', monospace; display:inline-block">.................</span></p></td><td style="width:26.45pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:bottom; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="margin-right:7.2pt; text-align:right; font-size:11pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span>3</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:1pt"><td style="width:65.5pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="margin-right:7.2pt; text-align:right; font-size:11pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span>8</span></p></td><td style="width:351.5pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="text-align:justify; font-size:11pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span>Certain amounts taken to be appropriated</span><span style="width:169.75pt; font-family:'Lucida Console', monospace; display:inline-block">.........................</span></p></td><td style="width:26.45pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:bottom; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="margin-right:7.2pt; text-align:right; font-size:11pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span>3</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:1pt"><td style="width:65.5pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="margin-right:7.2pt; text-align:right; font-size:11pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span>9</span></p></td><td style="width:351.5pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="text-align:justify; font-size:11pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span>Advance to Minister for Finance and Administration</span><span style="width:119.94pt; font-family:'Lucida Console', monospace; display:inline-block">..................</span></p></td><td style="width:26.45pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:bottom; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="margin-right:7.2pt; text-align:right; font-size:11pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span>4</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:1pt"><td style="width:65.5pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="margin-right:7.2pt; text-align:right; font-size:11pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span>10</span></p></td><td style="width:351.5pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="text-align:justify; font-size:11pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span>Department of Finance and Administration</span><span style="width:162.1pt; font-family:'Lucida Console', monospace; display:inline-block">........................</span></p></td><td style="width:26.45pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:bottom; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="margin-right:7.2pt; text-align:right; font-size:11pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span>4</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:1pt"><td style="width:65.5pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="margin-right:7.2pt; text-align:right; font-size:11pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span>11</span></p></td><td style="width:351.5pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="text-align:justify; font-size:11pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span>Department of Health and Family Services</span><span style="width:163.03pt; font-family:'Lucida Console', monospace; display:inline-block">........................</span></p></td><td style="width:26.45pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:bottom; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="margin-right:7.2pt; text-align:right; font-size:11pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span>5</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:1pt"><td style="width:65.5pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="margin-right:7.2pt; text-align:right; font-size:11pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span>12</span></p></td><td style="width:351.5pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="text-align:justify; font-size:11pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span>Consolidated Revenue Fund not to be debited after close of financial year</span><span style="width:27.41pt; font-family:'Lucida Console', monospace; display:inline-block">....</span></p></td><td style="width:26.45pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:bottom; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="margin-right:7.2pt; text-align:right; font-size:11pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span>6</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:1pt"><td colspan="2" style="width:421pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:6pt; text-align:justify; font-size:12pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span style="font-weight:bold">Schedule 1 </span><span style="font-weight:bold">— Payments to or for the States</span></p></td><td style="width:26.45pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:bottom; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="margin-right:7.2pt; margin-bottom:6pt; text-align:right; font-size:11pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span>7</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:1pt"><td colspan="2" style="width:421pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:6pt; text-align:justify; font-size:12pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span style="font-weight:bold">Schedule 2 — Services for which money is appropriated</span></p></td><td style="width:26.45pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:bottom; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="margin-right:7.2pt; margin-bottom:6pt; text-align:right; font-size:11pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span>11</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>
Appropriation Act (No. 2) 1998‑99
No. 71, 1998
An Act to appropriate money out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for certain expenditure in respect of the year ending on 30 June 1999, and for related purposes
[Assented to 30 June 1998]
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the Appropriation Act (No. 2) 1998‑99.
2 Commencement
This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
3 Definitions
In this Act:
Agency has the same meaning as in the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997.
Section 4
4 Issue and application of $ 4 171 699 000
(1) The Minister may issue out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund and apply for the services specified in Schedule 2, in respect of the year ending on 30 June 1999, the sum of $ 4 171 699 000.
(2) The Consolidated Revenue Fund is appropriated as necessary for the purposes of subsection (1).
5 Payments to or for the States
(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.
State includes the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory.
(2) Payments out of such money appropriated by this Act as is specified in the Division, or unit of a Division, in Scheduled that is specified in column 2 of an item in Schedule 1, being payments that are made to or for a State for a purpose specified in column 3 of that item, must be made:
(a) on the terms and conditions (if any) that 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 those Acts to or for a State for the purpose specified in column 3 of that item; and
(b) in the amounts and at the times that are determined, in writing, by the Minister specified in column 5 of that item.
(3) Payments to or for a State out of such of the money appropriated by this Act as is specified in Division 977 in Schedule 2 must be made in the amounts and at the times determined by the Treasurer.
Section 5
(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 an individual for any purposes for which money is appropriated under Appropriation Acts:
(a) on the terms and conditions; and
(b) in the amounts and at the times;
that the Commonwealth determines.
6 Money appropriated for a program
If money is appropriated by this Act for a particular program, that money is taken to be appropriated for:
(a) the purpose of payments (including advances) under Acts administered as part of the program; and
(b) any other purposes of the program.
7 Payments to Agencies out of The Comcover Reserve
Under section 11 of the Appropriation Act (No. 1) 1998‑99, amounts received by an Agency out of The Comcover Reserve during the year ending on 30 June 1999 may be credited to an item, subdivision or Division in Schedule 2 to this Act.
8 Certain amounts taken to be appropriated
If an item, subdivision or Division in Schedule 2 specifies, or is taken to specify, mat 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:
(a) amounts equal to payments (whether real or notional) of that description credited to
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