11Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

11 Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

(1) If a payment is made out of money appropriated, under item 06 of Subdivision 2 of Division 500 in the Schedule, for the purpose of the Reconciliation process between the Commonwealth and Aboriginals, 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 the Prime Minister and Cabinet:

(a) as payment for:

(i) the rights to sponsor a seminar or conference held to further the purpose of the appropriation under that item; or

(ii) any fees charged for attendance at such a seminar or conference; or

(b) from the sale, leasing or hiring out of, or other dealings with, goods or other property promoted at such a seminar or conference;

may be credited to that item to the extent and on the conditions agreed between the Minister and the Minister responsible for the Department.

(2) If the Consolidated Revenue Fund is credited with an amount purporting to be a payment in respect of:

(a) rights referred to in subparagraph (1)(a)(i); or

(b) fees referred to in subparagraph (1)(a)(ii); or

(c) the proceeds of a sale, or other transaction, referred to in paragraph (1)(b);

that amount is taken, for the purposes of subsection (1), to be money received as payment for those rights or fees or for that sale or other transaction (as the case may be), whether or not money has in fact been received in payment of that amount.