16Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs

16 Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs

If a body known as me Migration Review Tribunal is established by legislation before 1 July 1999, 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 Immigration and Multicultural Affairs under subdivision 1 of Division 360 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 meeting the running costs of the body in respect of the period commencing on the establishment of the body and ending on 30 June 1999; and

(b) an appropriation of the balance of that amount to the Department for the purpose of meeting its running costs.