17Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

17 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 to specify that any money received by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet:

(a) from the sale, leasing or hiring out of, or other dealings with, goods or other property in connection with that process; or

(b) from the provision of services in connection with that process;

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

(b) the proceeds from the provision of services referred to in paragraph (1)(b);

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