7Net annotated appropriations

7 Net annotated appropriations

(1) If the description of the purpose of an appropriation set out in an item, subdivision or Division in Schedule 3 includes the words "net appropriation — see section 7", the Schedule is taken, for the purposes of this Act and the Audit Act 1901, to provide that any money received by the Parliamentary Department for which the appropriation is made:

(a) from the sale, leasing or hiring out of, or other dealing with, goods or other personal property; or

(b) from the sale of real property used for the purpose of providing staff residential accommodation or from the leasing of real property for that purpose; or

(c) from the provision of services; or

(d) from a person (employee) appointed or employed by, or performing services for, the Commonwealth as payment for any benefit provided (whether to the employee or another person) in respect of the appointment or employment of, or the services performed by, the employee; or

(e) from the sub-leasing of real property, or the resale of goods used in fitting out premises, under a property resource agreement between the Minister and the Presiding Officer or Presiding Officers responsible for that Department;

may be credited to that item, subdivision or Division, to the extent and on the conditions agreed between the Minister and the Presiding Officer or Presiding Officers.

(2) If the Consolidated Revenue Fund is credited with an amount purported to have been paid in respect of:

(a) a sale, or other transaction, referred to in paragraph (1)(a), (b) or (e); or

(b) the provision of services; or

(c) any benefit referred to in paragraph (1)(d);

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