7Payments to Departments out of money appropriated for the purposes of certain employment subsidy schemes or programs

7 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 the Schedule appropriates money to that Department for running costs;

the 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 9(1) of the Appropriation Act (No. 1) 1997‑98, 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 9(2) of the Appropriation Act (No. 1) 1997‑98, to be an approved payment for the purposes of that Act.