8Department of Communications and the Arts

8 Department of Communications and the Arts

If a body to be known as the National Science and Technology Centre is established by legislation before 1 July 1997, 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 1997.