8Payments to Departments out of money appropriated for the purposes of certain employment subsidy schemes or programs

8 Payments to Departments out of money appropriated for the purposes of certain employment subsidy schemes or programs

(1) If:

(a) a payment (whether real or notional) is made to a Parliamentary Department out of money appropriated for the purposes of an approved employment subsidy scheme or program; and

(b) the payment is an approved payment; and

(c) an item, subdivision or Division in Schedule 3 appropriates money to that Department for running costs;

that Schedule is taken, for the purposes of this Act and the Audit Act 1901, to provide that any money received by the Department by way of such a payment may be credited to that item, subdivision or Division.

(2) If:

(a) the Consolidated Revenue Fund is credited with an amount purporting to be a payment to a Parliamentary Department; and

(b) that payment is an approved payment;

that amount is taken, for the purposes of subsection (1), to be money received by the Department by way of such a payment, whether or not money has in fact been received in respect of the payment.

(3) In this section:

approved employment subsidy scheme or program means an employment subsidy scheme or program determined by the Minister, under subsection 10(1) of the Appropriation Act (No. 1) 1996-97, to be an approved employment subsidy scheme or program for the purposes of that Act.

approved payment means a payment (out of money appropriated for an approved employment subsidy scheme or program) declared by the Minister, under subsection 10(2) of the Appropriation Act (No. 1) 1996-97, to be an approved payment for the purposes of that Act.