6Attorney‑General’s Department

6 Attorney‑General’s Department

If a body to be known as the Human Rights and Responsibilities Commission is established by legislation before 1 July 1998, the Appropriation Act (No. 2) 1998 has effect, and is taken at all times to have had effect, as if the appropriation of an amount to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission under item 01 of Division 806 in Schedule 2 to that Act were:

(a) an appropriation to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (for the purposes set out in the item) of so much of that amount as is determined, in writing, by the Minister, being an amount that is not less than the expenditure incurred by the Commission on payments to the States before the establishment of that body; and

(b) an appropriation of the balance of that amount to that body for its purposes in respect of the period commencing on its establishment and ending on 30 June 1998.