12Modification relating to the debiting of the Consolidated Revenue Fund after the close of a financial year

12 Modification relating to the debiting of the Consolidated Revenue Fund after the close of a financial year

Section 6 is repealed and the following section is substituted:

6 Consolidated Revenue Fund not to be debited after close of financial year

(1) An amount appropriated under section 3 may not be debited from the Consolidated Revenue Fund after 30 June 1997.

(2) Subsection (1) does not prevent the Minister from taking action after 30 June 1997:

(a) to correct errors or mispostings in the financial accounting records of the Commonwealth for the year ending on that day; or

(b) to balance the Funds (within the meaning of the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997);

if the action does not result in an amount being debited from a Fund otherwise than for the purpose of being credited to another Fund.

Modifications relating to payment of appropriated amounts into components of the Reserved Money Fund, etc.

(1) If:

(a) the description of the purpose of an appropriation set out in an item indicates that amounts appropriated under the item are to be paid into a particular account, being a Trust Account that was established under section 62A of the Audit Act 1901; and

(b) under a determination by the Minister (under the Financial Management and Accountability Act) establishing a component of the Reserved Money Fund, amounts of that kind that, immediately before the operative day, were to be placed to the credit of the Trust Account are allowed or required to be transferred from the Consolidated Revenue Fund to that component of the Reserved Money Fund;

the item is modified by omitting the reference to the Trust Account and substituting a reference to that component of the Reserved Money Fund.

(2) If:

(a) the description of the purpose of an appropriation set out in an item indicates that amounts apppropriated under the item are to be paid into a particular account, being a Trust Account that was established under section 62A of the Audit Act 1901; and

(b) under a determination by the Minister (under the Financial Management and Accountability Act) establishing a component of the Commercial Activities Fund, amounts of that kind that, immediately before the operative day, were to be placed to the credit of the Trust Account are allowed or required to be transferred from the Consolidated Revenue Fund to that component of the Commercial Activities Fund;

the item is modified by omitting the reference to the Trust Account and substituting a reference to that component of the Commercial Activities Fund.

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