8Payments into Digital Restart Fund

8 Payments into Digital Restart Fund

8 Payments into Digital Restart Fund

(1) There is payable into the Fund the following—

(a) all money appropriated by Parliament, or advanced by the Treasurer, for the purposes of payment into the Fund,

(b) all money appropriated by Parliament to the Treasurer for the general purposes of the Government and directed by the Treasurer to be paid into the Fund,

(c) the proceeds of the investment of money in the Fund,

(d) all other money directed or authorised to be paid into the Fund by or under any Act or other law,

(e) all money received from voluntary contributions to the Fund made by a government agency or other person or body.

(2) To avoid doubt, money appropriated by Parliament before the commencement of this section for purposes that reflect the purpose of the Fund may be paid into the Fund.

(3) Money paid into the Fund under subsection (2) is taken to have been appropriated out of the Consolidated Fund for the purposes of payment into the Fund.

(4) Government agencies are authorised by this section to make voluntary contributions to the Fund.