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The Appropriation Act (No. 3) 1995–96 is a mid‑year supplementary budget that authorises $836,356,000 from the Consolidated Revenue Fund to be paid to 20 Commonwealth departments (notably Defence, Social Security, Education, Treasury and Attorney‑General). It gives the Finance Minister authority to make payments, lets some agencies retain revenue and receive employment‑scheme credits, provides transitional funding rules for newly created statutory bodies, and includes automatic adjustments if the Financial Management and Accountability Act took effect before 30 June 1996.
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Appropriation Act (No. 3) 1995‑96
No. 157 of 1995
An Act to appropriate money out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, additional to the money appropriated by the Appropriation Act (No. 1) 1995‑96, for the service of the year ending on 30 June 1996, and for related purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
[Assented to 16 December 1995]
PART 1 ‑ GENERAL
Short title
Commencement
Issue and application of $ 836 356 000
76438 Cat. No. 95 6002 5 ISBN 0644 346973
(2) The Consolidated Revenue Fund is appropriated as necessary for the purposes of subsection (1).
Additional appropriation in respect of increases in salaries
Money appropriated for a program
(a) the purpose of payments (including advances) under Acts administered as part of the program; and
(b) other purposes of the program, being purposes for which appropriation has been made in an earlier Act (other than the Appropriation Act (No. 2) 1995‑96).
Net annotated appropriations
(a) from the sale, leasing or hiring out of, or other dealing with, goods or other personal property; or
(b) from the sale of real property used for the purpose of providing staff residential accommodation or from the leasing of real property for that purpose; or
(c) from the provision of services; or
(d) from a person ("employee") appointed or employed by, or performing services for, the Commonwealth as payment for any benefit provided (whether to the employee or another person) in respect of the appointment or employment of, or the services performed by, the employee; or
(e) from the sub‑leasing of real property, or the resale of goods used in fitting out premises, under a property resource agreement between the Minister and the Minister responsible for the relevant agency;
may be credited to that item, subdivision or Division, to the extent and on the conditions agreed between the Minister and the Minister responsible for the relevant agency.
(2) If the Consolidated Revenue Fund is credited with an amount purported to have been paid in respect of:
(a) a sale, or other transaction, referred to in paragraph (1)(a), (b) or (e); or
(b) the provision of services; or
(c) any benefit referred to in paragraph (1)(d);
that amount is taken, for the purposes of subsection (1), to be money received from that sale or other transaction, from the provision of those services or as payment for that benefit (as the case may be), whether or not money has in fact been received in payment of that amount.
Payments to Departments out of money appropriated for the purposes of certain employment subsidy schemes or programs
(2) If the Minister makes a determination under subsection (1) about an employment subsidy scheme or program, the Minister must (either in that determination or in another written instrument) declare either:
(a) that any payment out of money appropriated for the scheme or program is an approved payment for the purposes of this Act; or
(b) that only payments out of money appropriated from the scheme or program that are to be applied for a purpose specified in the declaration are approved payments for the purposes of this Act.
(3) In making a determination under subsection (1) or a declaration under subsection (2), the Minister is to observe any guidelines determined by the Minister under subsection (4).
(4) The Minister may determine in writing guidelines to be observed in making:
(a) a determination under subsection (1); or
(b) a declaration under subsection (2).
(5) If:
(a) a payment (whether real or notional) is made to a Department out of money appropriated for the purposes of an employment subsidy scheme or program that is an approved employment subsidy scheme or program for the purposes of this Act; and
(b) the payment is an approved payment for the purposes of this Act; and
(c) an item, subdivision or Division in the Schedule appropriates money to that Department for running costs;
the Schedule is taken, for the purposes of this Act and the Audit Act 1901, to provide that any money received by the Department by way of such a payment may be credited to that item, subdivision or Division.
(6) If:
(a) the Consolidated Revenue Fund is credited with an amount purporting to be a payment to a Department; and
(b) that payment is an approved payment for the purposes of this Act;
that amount is taken, for the purposes of subsection (5), to be money received by the Department by way of such a payment, whether or not money has in fact been received in respect of the payment.
(7) In this section:
"Department" has the same meaning as in the Audit Act 1901.
Department of Communications and the Arts
8. (1) If a body to be known as the National Film and Sound Archive is established by legislation before 1 July 1996, 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 Communications and the Arts under subdivision 1 or 2 of Division 160 in the Schedule were:
(a) an appropriation to the Department (for the purpose set out in the subdivision) of so much of that amount as is determined by the Minister, being an amount that is not less than the expenditure incurred by the Department in meeting running costs or on other services (as the case may be) preparatory to the establishment of the body; and
(b) an appropriation of the balance of that amount to the body for its purposes in respect of the period commencing on the establishment of the body and ending on 30 June 1996.
(2) If a body to be known as the National Science and Technology Centre is established by legislation before 1 July 1996, 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 Communications and the Arts under subdivision 1 of Division 163 in the Schedule were:
(a) an appropriation to the Department (for the purpose set out in the subdivision) of so much of that amount as is determined by the Minister, being an amount that is not less than the expenditure incurred by the Department in meeting running costs preparatory to the establishment of the body; and
(b) an appropriation of the balance of that amount to the body for its purposes in respect of the period commencing on the establishment of the body and ending on 30 June 1996.
Department of Industry, Science and Technology
9. (1) If a body to be known as the Gene Technology Authority is established by legislation before 1 July 1996, 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 Industry, Science and Technology under subdivision 1 of Division 380 in the Schedule 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 1996; and
(b) an appropriation of the balance of that amount to the Department for the purpose of meeting its running costs.
(2) If a payment is made for the purposes of the Industry Innovation Program out of money appropriated under item 01 of subdivision 3 of Division 380 in the Schedule, the Schedule is taken, for the purposes of this Act and the Audit Act 1901, to provide that any money received by the Department of Industry, Science and Technology:
(a) as repayment of an amount that:
(i) was paid for the purposes of the Program out of money appropriated under that item or out of money appropriated for the Industry Innovation Program under a previous appropriation; and
(ii) was not spent; or
(b) as payment of fees charged for attendance at a seminar or conference held for the purposes of the Program; or
(c) from the sale of publications made available for the purposes of the Program.
may be credited to that item to the extent and on the conditions agreed between the Minister and the Minister responsible for the Department.
(3) If the Consolidated Revenue Fund is credited with an amount purporting to be:
(a) a repayment of an amount referred to in paragraph (2)(a); or
(b) a payment in respect of:
(i) a seminar or conference referred to in paragraph (2)(b); or
(ii) a publication referred to in paragraph (2)(c);
that amount is taken, for the purposes of subsection (2), to be money received as repayment of that amount or as payment in respect of the seminar, conference or publication (as the case may be), whether or not money has in fact been received in payment of that amount.
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
10. If a body to be known as the Economic Planning Advisory Commmission is established by legislation during the year ending on 30 June 1996, this Act has effect, and is taken at all times to have had effect, as if the appropriation of an amount to the Department under subdivision 1 of Division 502 in the Schedule were:
(a) an appropriation to the Department (for the purpose set out in the subdivision) of so much of that amount as is determined by the Minister, being an amount that is not less than the expenditure incurred by the Department in meeting running costs preparatory to the establishment of the body; and
(b) an appropriation of the balance of that amount to the body for its purposes in respect of the period commencing on the establishment of the body and ending on 30 June 1996.
Department of the Treasury
(2) This Act has effect, and is taken at all times to have had effect, as if:
(a) the appropriation of an amount to the Prices Surveillance Authority under subdivision 1 of Division 673 in the Schedule were:
(i) an appropriation to the Prices Surveillance Authority (for the purposes set out in the subdivision) of so much of that amount as is determined, in writing, by the Minister, being an amount that is not less than the expenditure incurred by the Authority in meeting its running costs before the establishment of the body; and
(ii) an appropriation of the balance of that amount to the body for the purpose of meeting its running costs in respect of the period commencing on the establishment of the body and ending on 30 June 1996; and
(b) the appropriation of an amount to the Trade Practices Commission under subdivision 1 of Division 676 in the Schedule were:
(i) an appropriation to the Trade Practices Commission (for the purposes set out in the subdivision) of so much of that amount as is determined, in writing, by the Minister, being an amount that is not less than the expenditure incurred by the Commission in meeting its running costs or on other services (as the case may be) before the establishment of that body; and
(ii) an appropriation of the balance of that amount to the body for the purpose of meeting its running costs or for expenditure on other services (as the case may be) in respect of the period commencing on the establishment of the body and ending on 30 June 1996.
Act to be subject to Loan Act
Accounting errors etc. may be corrected after close of financial year
(a) to correct errors or mispostings in the official accounting records of the Commonwealth; or
(b) to balance the Consolidated Revenue Fund, the Trust Fund or the Loan Fund;
if the action does not result in an amount being debited from one of those Funds otherwise than for the purpose of being credited to another of those Funds.
PART 2 ‑ SPECIAL APPLICATION OF ACT
Definitions
"Financial Management and Accountability Act" means the Act to be cited as:
(a) the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1995; or
(b) the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1996;
"item" means an item, subdivision or Division in the Schedule;
"operative day" means the day on which the Financial Management and Accountability Act commences.
Application of Part
Act to have effect subject to modifications
16. (1) This Act has effect on and after the operative day subject to the modifications set out in the following subsections.
(2) After section 2 the following section is inserted:
Interpretation
"2A. In this Part:
'Agency' has the same meaning as in the Financial Management and Accountability Act;
'Financial Management and Accountability Act' means:
(a) the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1995; or
(b) the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1996;
whichever is in force.".
(3) Section 6 is omitted and the following section is substituted:
Net annotated appropriations
"6. If:
(a) the description of the purpose of an appropriation set out in an item, subdivision or Division in the Schedule includes the words "net appropriation — see section 6"; and
(b) there is in force an agreement (entered into under section 31 of the Financial Management Accountability Act) between:
(i) the Minister; and
(ii) the Minister responsible for the Agency for which the appropriation is made or the Chief Executive of that Agency (as the case requires);
to the effect that payments to the Commonwealth in consideration for any service, benefit, activity, transaction or other matter specified in the agreement can be added to the amount appropriated to the Agency under the item, subdivision or Division, to the extent and on the conditions set out in the agreement;
the item, subdivision or Division is taken to specify that those payments (whether real or notional) may be credited to the item, subdivision or Division to the extent and on the conditions set out in the agreement.".
(4) Section 7 is modified:
(a) by omitting from subsection (5) "Department" (first and second occuring) substituting "Agency";
(b) by omitting from subsection (5) all the words from and including "the Schedule" (second occurring) and substituting "the item, subdivision or Division is taken to specify that the payment may be credited to the item, subdivision or Division";
(c) by omitting subsection (6) and (7).
Note: The heading to section 7 is altered by omitting Departmen
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