to repeal the Financial Administration and Audit Act 1985;
to amend various Acts 2; and
to enact transitional provisions,
as a consequence of, and in connection with, the enactment of —
the Auditor General Act 2006; and
the Financial Management Act 2006,
and for related purposes.
Part 1 — Preliminary
1. Short title
This is the Financial Management (Transitional Provisions)Act 2006 1.
[Section 1 amended: No. 77 of 2006 s. 18 3.]
2. Commencement
(1) Subject to subsection (3), this Act comes into operation on a day fixed by proclamation 1.
(2) Different days may be fixed under subsection (1) for different provisions.
(3) Sections 3 and 19 and Schedule 2 come into operation on the day on which the Financial Management Act 2006 comes into operation 1.
Part 2 — Repeal and amendment of legislation
Division 1 — Financial Administration and Audit Act 1985 repealed
3. Financial Administration and Audit Act 1985 repealed
The Financial Administration and Audit Act 1985 is repealed.
[Divisions 2-5 omitted under the Reprints Act 1984 s. 7(4)(e) 2.]
Division 6 — Transitional provisions
19. Transitional provisions
Schedule 2 sets out transitional provisions.
[Schedule 1 omitted under the Reprints Act 1984 s. 7(4)(e) 2.]
Schedule 2 — Transitional provisions
[s. 19]
Division 1 — Preliminary
Terms used in this Schedule
(1) In this Schedule —
commencement day means the day on which this Schedule comes into operation;
FAA Act means the Financial Administration and Audit Act 1985;
FM Act means the Financial Management Act 2006.
(2) Unless the contrary intention appears, words and expressions used in this Schedule have the same respective meaning as they have in the FAA Act or the FM Act, as the case requires.
Application of Interpretation Act 1984
(1) The provisions of the Interpretation Act 1984 (for example, sections 16, 36 and 38) about the repeal of written laws and the substitution of other written laws for those so repealed apply to the repeal of the Financial Administration and Audit Act 1985 as if —
(a) Part II of that Act were repealed and re‑enacted by the Financial Management Act 2006; and
(b) Part III of that Act were repealed and re‑enacted by the Auditor General Act 2006.
(2) The other provisions of this Schedule are additional to the provisions applied by subclause (1) and do not affect the operation of the provisions applied by that subclause.
Division 2 — Transitional provisions for the Financial Administration and Audit Act 1985
Financial Administration and Audit Act 1985 section 6 (Consolidated Fund)
A determination made by the Treasurer as to moneys that may be credited to the Consolidated Fund under the FAA Act section 6(3)(d) that has effect immediately before the commencement day continues to have effect, on and after that day, as if it were a determination made by the Treasurer as to amounts that may be credited to the Consolidated Account under the FM Act section 8(3)(a).
Financial Administration and Audit Act 1985 section 9 (trust accounts)
A trust account, forming part of the Trust Fund constituted under the FAA Act section 9 and established under subsection (2)(c) of that section, that is operative immediately before the commencement day continues to operate, on and after that day, as —
(a) a Treasurer’s special purpose account under the FM Act section 10(a) or (f); or
(b) an agency special purpose account under the FM Act section 16(1)(c) or (d),
as the case requires.
Financial Administration and Audit Act 1985 section 10 (trust statements)
(1) Unless the Treasurer directs otherwise and subject to subclause (2), a trust statement approved by the Treasurer under the FAA Act section 10 that has effect immediately before the commencement day continues to have effect, on and after that day, as if it were a special purpose statement or a trust statement, as the case requires, approved by the Treasurer under the FM Act section 17.
(2) A trust statement prepared for the Hospital Fund established under the Hospital Fund Act 1930 section 3 that —
(a) is approved by the Treasurer under the FAA Act section 10; and
(b) has effect immediately before the commencement day,
continues to have effect, on and after that day, as if —
(c) it were a special purpose statement approved by the Treasurer under the FM Act section 17; and
(d) the FM Act section 17(1)(a) were amended to read as follows —
“
(a) a special purpose statement for an agency special purpose account operated by the agency that is referred to in section 16(1)(a);
”.
Financial Administration and Audit Act 1985 section 15B (operating accounts)
An operating account established for the purposes of the operations of a department under the FAA Act section 15B that is operative immediately before the commencement day continues to operate, on and after that day, as an agency special purpose account established for the purposes of the operations of the department under the FM Act section 16(1)(a).
Financial Administration and Audit Act 1985 section 21 (bank accounts)
(1) A bank account maintained immediately before the commencement day under an authorisation given by the Treasurer under the FAA Act section 21 is taken, on and after that day, to be maintained under an authorisation given by the Treasurer under the FM Act section 13.
(2) Despite the FM Act section 13, a bank account to which subclause (1) applies that, immediately before the commencement day, does not form part of the Public Bank Account continues, on and after that day, not to form part of the Public Bank Account.
Financial Administration and Audit Act 1985 section 23A (prescribed revenue)
A determination made by the Treasurer in respect of prescribed revenue under the FAA Act section 23A that has effect immediately before the commencement day continues to have effect, on and after that day, as if it were a determination made by the Treasurer in respect of prescribed receipts under the FM Act section 23.
Financial Administration and Audit Act 1985 section 39 (investment income)
A determination made by the Treasurer in respect of investment income under the FAA Act section 39(5) that has effect immediately before the commencement day continues to have effect, on and after that day, as if it were a determination made by the Treasurer in respect of money received from investment under the FM Act section 38(5).
Financial Administration and Audit Act 1985 section 58 (Treasurer’s Instructions)
(1) Subject to subclause (3), a Treasurer’s Instruction issued under the FAA Act section 58 that has effect immediately before the commencement day continues to have effect, on and after that day, as if it were a Treasurer’s instruction issued under the FM Act section 78.
(2) Without limiting subclause (1) and subject to subclause (3), an exemption provided by a Treasurer’s Instruction or by the written direction of the Treasurer under the FAA Act section 58(3)(e) that has effect immediately before the commencement day continues to have effect on and after that day.
(3) A Treasurer’s Instruction or exemption that continues to have effect under this clause does not have effect to the extent of any inconsistency with the FM Act.
References to the Financial Administration and Audit Act 1985
A reference in a written law or other document or instrument to the Financial Administration and Audit Act 1985 may, where the context so requires, be read as if it had been amended to be a reference to the Financial Management Act 2006 or to the Auditor General Act 2006, or to both those Acts, as the case requires.
Division 3 — Other transitional provisions
Treasurer’s Advance Authorisation Act payments and advances
An authorisation for the Treasurer to make payments or advances in a financial year under a Treasurer’s Advance Authorisation Act that has effect on the commencement day continues to have effect, after that day, as if it were an authorisation —
(a) to make payments in that financial year under the Financial Management Act 2006 section 27; or
(b) to make advances in that financial year under the Financial Management Act 2006 section 28,
as the case requires.
References to the Consolidated Fund
(1) In this clause —
Consolidated Account means the account of that name established by the Constitution Act 1889 section 64 as amended under Part 2;
Consolidated Fund means the fund of that name established by the Constitution Act 1889 section 64 before the commencement of Part 2.
(2) A reference in a written law or other document or instrument to the Consolidated Fund may, where the context so requires, be read as if it had been amended to be a reference to the Consolidated Account.
Transitional regulations
(1) If this Schedule does not provide sufficiently for a matter or issue of a transitional nature that arises as a result of —
(a) the repeal of the Financial Administration and Audit Act 1985 and the enactment of the Financial Management Act 2006 or the Auditor General Act 2006; or
(b) the amendments effected by this Act,
the Governor may make regulations under this clause (transitional regulations) prescribing all matters that are required, necessary or convenient to be prescribed for providing for the matter or issue.
(2) If the transitional regulations provide that a state of affairs specified or described in the regulations is taken to have existed, or not to have existed, on and from a day that is earlier than the day on which the regulations are published in the Gazette but not earlier than the commencement day, the regulations have effect according to their terms.
(3) If the transitional regulations contain a provision referred to in subclause (2), the provision does not operate so as —
(a) to affect in a manner prejudicial to any person (other than the State or an authority of the State) the rights of that person existing before the day of publication of those regulations; or
(b) to impose liabilities on any person (other than the State or an authority of the State) in respect of anything done or omitted to be done before the day of publication of those regulations.
Power to amend subsidiary legislation
(1) The Governor, on the recommendation of the Treasurer, may make regulations amending subsidiary legislation made under any Act.
(2) The Treasurer may make a recommendation under subclause (1) only if the Treasurer considers that each amendment proposed to be made by the regulations is necessary or desirable as a consequence of the enactment of the Financial Management Act 2006, the Auditor General Act 2006 or this Act.
(3) Nothing in this clause prevents subsidiary legislation from being amended in accordance with the Act under which it was made.
Notes
1 This is a compilation of the Financial Management (Transitional Provisions) Act 2006. The following table contains information about that Act and any reprint.
Compilation table
Short title
Number and year
Assent
Commencement
Financial Legislation Amendment and Repeal Act 20063, 4
77 of 2006
21 Dec 2006
s. 1 and 2: 21 Dec 2006;<br>Act other than s. 1, 2, 3, 19 and Sch. 1 cl. 122 and Sch. 2: 1 Feb 2007 (see s. 2(1) and Gazette 19 Jan 2007 p. 137);<br>s. 3 and 19 and Sch. 2: 1 Feb 2007 (see s. 2(3) and Gazette 19 Jan 2007 p. 137)
Reprint 1: The Financial Management (Transitional Provisions) Act 2006 as at 18 May 2007
Statutes (Repeals and Minor Amendments) Act 2009 s. 8
46 of 2009
3 Dec 2009
4 Dec 2009 (see s. 2(b))
2 The provisions of Divisions 2, 3, 4 and 5 of Part 2 of, and of Sch. 1 to, this Act, which amend various Acts as a consequence of the enactment of the Auditor General Act 2006 and the Financial Management Act 2006, have had effect and have been omitted from this reprint under the Reprints Act 1984 s. 7(4)(e).
3 This Act was enacted with the short title Financial Legislation Amendment and Repeal Act 2006, which was amended by s. 18 of the Act to Financial Management (Transitional Provisions) Act 2006.
4 The Financial Management (Transitional Provisions) Act 2006 Sch. 1 cl. 122 had not come into operation when it was deleted by the Statutes (Repeals and Minor Amendments) Act 2009 s. 8.
Defined terms
[This is a list of terms defined and the provisions where they are defined. The list is not part of the law.]