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This Act may be cited as the Appropriation Act (No. 4) 1998‑99.
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This supplementary appropriation authorises an extra $254.98 million from the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the 1998–99 year, allowing additional Commonwealth spending across multiple departments and payments to States and Territories. It provides Parliament’s legal approval for emergency and program funding (notably a $100 million payment to Victorians after the Longford gas crisis) and ensures the amounts are available only within that financial year.
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1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the Appropriation Act (No. 4) 1998‑99.
2 Commencement
This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
3 Definitions
In this Act:
Agency has the same meaning as in the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997.
4 Issue and application of $ 254 977 000
(1) The Minister may issue out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund and apply for the services specified in Schedule 2, in respect of the year ending on 30 June 1999, the sum of $ 254 977 000.
(2) The Consolidated Revenue Fund is appropriated as necessary for the purposes of subsection (1).
5 Payments to or for the States
(1) In this section and in determinations for the purposes of paragraph (2)(a) or (b):
Appropriation Act means an Act appropriating money for expenditure in respect of a financial year.
State includes the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory.
(2) Payments out of such money appropriated by this Act as is specified in the Division, or unit of a Division, in Schedule 2 that is specified in column 2 of an item in Schedule 1, being payments that are made to or for a State for a purpose specified in column 3 of that item, must be made:
(a) on the terms and conditions (if any) that are from time to time determined, in writing, for the purposes of Appropriation Acts, by the Minister specified in column 4 of that item, as being terms and conditions applicable to payments under those Acts to or for a State for the purpose specified in column 3 of that item; and
(b) in the amounts and at the times that are determined, in writing, by the Minister specified in column 5 of mat item.
(3) Nothing in this section limits, by implication, the power of the Commonwealth to make payments to a Territory, a local Government body, a body corporate, an organisation or an individual for any purposes for which money is appropriated under Appropriation Acts:
(a) on the terms and conditions; and
(b) in the amounts and at the times;
that the Commonwealth determines.
6 Money appropriated for a program
If money is appropriated by this Act for a particular program, that money is taken to be appropriated for:
(a) the purpose of payments (including advances) under Acts administered as part of the program; and
(b) any other purposes of the program.
7 Payments to Agencies out of The Comcover Reserve
Under section 11 of the Appropriation Act (No. 1) 1998‑99, as it has effect because of section 11 of the Appropriation Act (No. 3) 1998‑99, amounts received by an Agency out of The Comcover Reserve during the year ending on 30 June 1999 may be credited to an item, subdivision or Division in Schedule 2 to this Act.
8 Certain amounts taken to be appropriated
If an item, subdivision or Division in Schedule 2 specifies, or is taken to specify, that payments (whether the word "payments" or "money" or any other word is used) of a certain description may be credited to the item, subdivision or Division:
(a) amounts equal to payments (whether real or notional) of that description credited to the Consolidated Revenue Fund during the financial year ending on 30 June 1999 are taken to have been appropriated for the purpose or services referred to in mat item, subdivision or Division; and
(b) the Minister is authorised to issue and apply those amounts accordingly.
9 Advance to Minister for Finance and Administration
Section 9 of the Appropriation Act (No. 2) 1998‑99 has effect, on and from the commencement of this Act, as if the reference in that section to Schedule 2 to that Act also included a reference to Schedule 2 to this Act.
10 Department of Finance and Administration
If a body known as ComSuper, or as ComSuper Limited, is established by legislation or under the provisions of the Corporations Law 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 Finance and Administration under item 03 of Division 862 in Schedule 2 were:
(a) an appropriation for payment to the body of so much of that amount as is determined, in writing, by the Minister to be required for the purposes 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 stated in that item.
11 Consolidated Revenue Fund not to be debited after close of financial year
(1) An amount appropriated under section 4 may not be debited from the Consolidated Revenue Fund after 30 June 1999.
(2) Subsection (1) does not prevent the Minister from taking action after 30 June 1999:
(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.
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Payments to or for the States
Schedule 1
Schedule 1 — Payments to or for the States
Note: See section 5
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 | Column 4 | Column 5 |
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| Item No. | Division, &c. | Purpose | Minister determining conditions | Minister determining payments |
| 1 | Subdivision 2 of Division 931 | Rural adjustment under the Stales Grants (Rural Adjustment) Act 1988 and the Rural Adjustment Act 1992.Payments to State rural assistance authorities for administration costs associated with exceptional circumstances.Farm business and community programs.Payment to Western Australia for Wyndham Port loading facility. | Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry | Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry |
| 2 | Subdivision 3 of Division 931 | Remote sensing land coverage. | Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry | Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry |
| 3 | Division 849 | Payment to Queensland for the Sugar Coast Environment Rescue Package. | Minister for the Environment and Heritage | Minister for the Environment and Heritage |
| 4 | Subdivision 1 of Division 949 | Commonwealth/State Disability Agreements. | Minister for Family and Community Services | Minister for Family and Community Services |
| 5 | Subdivision 2 of Division 949 | Childcare assistance. | Minister for Family and Community Services | Minister for Family and Community Services |
| 6 | Subdivision 3 of Division 949 | Supported accommodation assistance program (for expenditure under the Supported Accommodation Assistance Act 1994). | Minister for Family and Community Services | Minister for Family and Community Services |
| 7 | Subdivision 4 of Division 949 | Social housing subsidy program. | Minister for Family and Community Services | Minister for Family and Community Services |
| 8 | Subdivision 1 of Division 891 | National Public Health. | Minister for Health and Aged Care | Minister for Health and Aged Care |
| 9 | Subdivision 2 of Division 891 | Blood Transfusion Services. | Minister for Health and Aged Care | Minster for Health and Aged Care |
Services for which money is appropriated
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Appropriation Act (No. 4) 1998‑99
No. 25, 1999
An Act to appropriate money out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, additional to the money appropriated by the Appropriation Act (No. 2) 1998‑99, for certain expenditure in respect of the year ending on 30 June 1999, and for related purposes
Contents
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text-align:right; background-color:#ffffff"><span>2</span></p></td><td style="width:371.65pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="background-color:#ffffff"><span>Commencement</span><span style="width:301.66pt; font-family:'Lucida Console', monospace; display:inline-block">..................................................</span></p></td><td style="width:13.3pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="margin-left:2.65pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span>1</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:1pt"><td style="width:54.5pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="margin-right:7.2pt; text-align:right; background-color:#ffffff"><span>3</span></p></td><td style="width:371.65pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="background-color:#ffffff"><span>Definitions</span><span style="width:322.2pt; font-family:'Lucida Console', monospace; display:inline-block">.....................................................</span></p></td><td style="width:13.3pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="margin-left:2.9pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span>1</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:1pt"><td style="width:54.5pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="margin-right:7.2pt; text-align:right; background-color:#ffffff"><span>4</span></p></td><td style="width:371.65pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="background-color:#ffffff"><span>Issue and application of $ 254 977 000</span><span style="width:211.95pt; font-family:'Lucida Console', monospace; display:inline-block">...................................</span></p></td><td style="width:13.3pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="margin-left:1.45pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span>2</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:1pt"><td style="width:54.5pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="margin-right:7.2pt; text-align:right; background-color:#ffffff"><span>5</span></p></td><td style="width:371.65pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="background-color:#ffffff"><span>Payments to or for the States</span><span style="width:251.94pt; font-family:'Lucida Console', monospace; display:inline-block">.........................................</span></p></td><td style="width:13.3pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="margin-left:1.45pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span>2</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:1pt"><td style="width:54.5pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="margin-right:7.2pt; text-align:right; background-color:#ffffff"><span>6</span></p></td><td style="width:371.65pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="background-color:#ffffff"><span>Money appropriated for a program</span><span style="width:228.36pt; font-family:'Lucida Console', monospace; display:inline-block">.....................................</span></p></td><td style="width:13.3pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="margin-left:1.7pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span>3</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:1pt"><td style="width:54.5pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="margin-right:7.2pt; text-align:right; background-color:#ffffff"><span>7</span></p></td><td style="width:371.65pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="background-color:#ffffff"><span>Payments to Agencies out of The Comcover Reserve</span><span style="width:155.31pt; font-family:'Lucida Console', monospace; display:inline-block">.........................</span></p></td><td style="width:13.3pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="margin-left:1.7pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span>3</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:1pt"><td style="width:54.5pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="margin-right:7.2pt; text-align:right; background-color:#ffffff"><span>8</span></p></td><td style="width:371.65pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="background-color:#ffffff"><span>Certain amounts taken to be appropriated</span><span style="width:201.98pt; font-family:'Lucida Console', monospace; display:inline-block">.................................</span></p></td><td style="width:13.3pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="margin-left:1.9pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span>3</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:1pt"><td style="width:54.5pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="margin-right:7.2pt; text-align:right; background-color:#ffffff"><span>9</span></p></td><td style="width:371.65pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="background-color:#ffffff"><span>Advance to Minister for Finance and Administration</span><span style="width:156.69pt; font-family:'Lucida Console', monospace; display:inline-block">..........................</span></p></td><td style="width:13.3pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="margin-left:1.7pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span>4</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:1pt"><td style="width:54.5pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="margin-right:7.2pt; text-align:right; background-color:#ffffff"><span>10</span></p></td><td style="width:371.65pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="background-color:#ffffff"><span>Department of Finance and Administration</span><span style="width:195.02pt; font-family:'Lucida Console', monospace; display:inline-block">................................</span></p></td><td style="width:13.3pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="margin-left:1.9pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span>4</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:1pt"><td style="width:54.5pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="margin-right:7.2pt; text-align:right; background-color:#ffffff"><span>11</span></p></td><td style="width:371.65pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="background-color:#ffffff"><span>Consolidated Revenue Fund not to be debited after close of </span><span>financial year</span><span style="width:72.57pt; font-family:'Lucida Console', monospace; display:inline-block">............</span></p></td><td style="width:13.3pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="margin-left:1.7pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span>4</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:1pt"><td colspan="2" style="width:430.15pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:6pt; font-size:12pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span style="font-weight:bold">Schedule 1 </span><span style="font-weight:bold">— Payments to or for the States</span></p></td><td style="width:13.3pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="margin-top:6pt; margin-left:1.9pt; margin-bottom:6pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span>7</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:1pt"><td colspan="2" style="width:430.15pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:6pt; font-size:12pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span style="font-weight:bold">Schedule 2 </span><span style="font-weight:bold">— Services for which money is appropriated</span></p></td><td style="width:13.3pt; padding-right:2pt; padding-left:2pt; vertical-align:top; background-color:#ffffff"><p style="margin-top:6pt; margin-left:2.4pt; margin-bottom:6pt; background-color:#ffffff"><span>9</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>
Appropriation Act (No. 4) 1998‑99
No. 25, 1999
An Act to appropriate money out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, additional to the money appropriated by the Appropriation Act (No. 2) 1998‑99, for certain expenditure in respect of the year ending on 30 June 1999, and for related purposes
[Assented to 14 May 1999]
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the Appropriation Act (No. 4) 1998‑99.
2 Commencement
This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
3 Definitions
In this Act:
Agency has the same meaning as in the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997.
Section 4
4 Issue and application of $ 254 977 000
(1) The Minister may issue out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund and apply for the services specified in Schedule 2, in respect of the year ending on 30 June 1999, the sum of $ 254 977 000.
(2) The Consolidated Revenue Fund is appropriated as necessary for the purposes of subsection (1).
5 Payments to or for the States
(1) In this section and in determinations for the purposes of paragraph (2)(a) or (b):
Appropriation Act means an Act appropriating money for expenditure in respect of a financial year.
State includes the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory.
(2) Payments out of such money appropriated by this Act as is specified in the Division, or unit of a Division, in Schedule 2 that is specified in column 2 of an item in Schedule 1, being payments that are made to or for a State for a purpose specified in column 3 of that item, must be made:
(a) on the terms and conditions (if any) that are from time to time determined, in writing, for the purposes of Appropriation Acts, by the Minister specified in column 4 of that item, as being terms and conditions applicable to payments under those Acts to or for a State for the purpose specified in column 3 of that item; and
(b) in the amounts and at the times that are determined, in writing, by the Minister specified in column 5 of mat item.
(3) Nothing in this section limits, by implication, the power of the Commonwealth to make payments to a Territory, a local Government body, a body corporate, an organisation or an individual for any purposes for which money is appropriated under Appropriation Acts:
Section 5
(a) on the terms and conditions; and
(b) in the amounts and at the times;
that the Commonwealth determines.
6 Money appropriated for a program
If money is appropriated by this Act for a particular program, that money is taken to be appropriated for:
(a) the purpose of payments (including advances) under Acts administered as part of the program; and
(b) any other purposes of the program.
7 Payments to Agencies out of The Comcover Reserve
Under section 11 of the Appropriation Act (No. 1) 1998‑99, as it has effect because of section 11 of the Appropriation Act (No. 3) 1998‑99, amounts received by an Agency out of The Comcover Reserve during the year ending on 30 June 1999 may be credited to an item, subdivision or Division in Schedule 2 to this Act.
8 Certain amounts taken to be appropriated
If an item, subdivision or Division in Schedule 2 specifies, or is taken to specify, that payments (whether the word "payments" or "money" or any other word is used) of a certain description may be credited to the item, subdivision or Division:
(a) amounts equal to payments (whether real or notional) of that description credited to the Consolidated Revenue Fund during the financial year ending on 30 June 1999 are taken to have been appropriated for the purpose or services referred to in mat item, subdivision or Division; and
(b) the Minister is authorised to issue and apply those amounts accordingly.
Section 9
9 Advance to Minister for Finance and Administration
Section 9 of the Appropriation Act (No. 2) 1998‑99 has effect, on and from the commencement of this Act, as if the reference in that section to Schedule 2 to that Act also included a reference to Schedule 2 to this Act.
10 Department of Finance and Administration
If a body known as ComSuper, or as ComSuper Limited, is established by legislation or under the provisions of the Corporations Law 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 Finance and Administration under item 03 of Division 862 in Schedule 2 were:
(a) an appropriation for payment to the body of so much of that amount as is determined, in writing, by the Minister to be required for the purposes 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 stated in that item.
11 Consolidated Revenue Fund not to be debited after close of financial year
(1) An amount appropriated under section 4 may not be debited from the Consolidated Revenue Fund after 30 June 1999.
(2) Subsection (1) does not prevent the Minister from taking action after 30 June 1999:
(a) to correct errors or mispostings in the financial accounting records of the Commonwealth for the year ending on that day; or
Section 11
(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.
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Payments to or for the States
Schedule 1
Schedule 1 — Payments to or for the States
Note: See section 5
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