Commonwealth act

Appropriation Act (No. 3) 1972-73

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Jurisdiction

Commonwealth

Act Number

12 of 1973

Collection

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Plain English Summary

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This supplementary budget law authorises $56,050,000 from the Consolidated Revenue Fund to top up departmental spending for the 1972–73 year, funding areas like social security, Aboriginal affairs, education and an advance to the Treasurer. It also retrospectively validates payments and administrative costs made by newly created or reorganised departments during the Whitlam Government’s reshuffle (20 Dec 1972–28 Feb 1973), ensuring those expenditures are legally authorised.

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Appropriation Act (No. 3) 1972-73

Appropriation Act (No. 3) 1972–73

No. 12 of 1973

AN ACT

To appropriate a sum out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, additional to the sum appropriated by the Appropriation Act (No. 1) 1972–73, for the service of the year ending on 30th June, 1973.

[Assented to 31 March 1973]

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, the Senate and the House of Representatives of Australia, as follows:—

Short title.

This Act may be cited as the Appropriation Act (No. 3) 1972–73.

Commencement.

This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Issue and application of $56,050,000.

The Treasurer may issue out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund and apply for the services specified in the Schedule to this Act in respect of the year ending on 30th June, 1973, the sum of Fifty-six million and fifty thousand dollars.

Validation.

(1) In this section—

“Appropriation Act” means the Appropriation Act (No. 1) 1972–73;

“Department” means a Department of State;

“original Department” means a Department specified in the Second Schedule to the Appropriation Act;

“relevant date” means 20th December, 1972;

“relevant period” means the period that commenced on the relevant date and ended on 28th February, 1973.

(2) The authority conferred on the Treasurer by section 3 of the Appropriation Act to issue out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, and apply, moneys referred to in that section in respect of—

(a) salaries, and payments in the nature of salaries, of persons employed in an original Department;

(b) administrative expenses of an original Department; or

(c) any other services related to a function of an original Department, being a function that became, during the relevant period, a function of another Department,

shall, by force of this sub-section, be deemed to have extended to the issuing, during the relevant period, out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, and the application, of those moneys in respect of—

(d) salaries and payments in the nature of salaries of persons employed in another Department in connexion with the performance of a function of the other Department that, immediately before the relevant date, was a function of the original Department;

(e) administrative expenses of another Department that are connected with the performance of such a function; or

(f) services related to a function of another Department, being a function that, during the relevant period, became a function of the other Department,

respectively.

(3) The authority conferred on the Treasurer by section 3 of the Appropriation Act to issue out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, and apply, moneys referred to in that section in respect of rent, or furniture and fittings, for an original Department, or repairs and maintenance connected with an original Department, shall, by force of this sub-section, be deemed to have extended to the issuing, during the relevant period, out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, and the application, of those moneys in respect of rent, or furniture and fittings, for any other Department, or repairs and maintenance connected with any other Department, respectively.

THE SCHEDULE Section 3.

ABSTRACT

Department	Total
	$
department of aboriginal affairs.................................	12,394,500
attorney-general’s department..................................	1,067,400
department of education......................................	4,073,700
department of the environment and conservation.....................	297,400
department of the media......................................	72,200
department of science.......................................	702,700
department of secondary industry...............................	474,100
department of services and property..............................	5,228,000
department of social security..................................	13,816,100
department of the special minister of state..........................	104,100
department of tourism and recreation.............................	108,600
advance to the treasurer......................................	15,000,000
department of urban and regional development.......................	283,200
department of works........................................	2,428,000
TOTAL............................................	56,050,000

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1 Appropriation Act (No. 3) 1972-73