7Payments to Departments out of money appropriated for the purposes of certain employment subsidy schemes or programs

7 Payments to Departments out of money appropriated for the purposes of certain employment subsidy schemes or programs

(1) The Minister may determine in writing that an employment subsidy scheme or program for which money is appropriated under an item, subdivision or Division in the Schedule is an approved employment subsidy scheme or program for the purposes of this Act.

(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 for 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.