Commonwealth act

Loan Appropriation Act 1936

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This Act has been repealed and is no longer in force. It is retained for historical reference.

Jurisdiction

Commonwealth

Act Number

30 of 1936

Collection

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Plain English Summary

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This law gives the Australian Government legal authority to spend £600,000 on telephone exchange services.

The basics:

Where the money comes from: The funds are drawn from proceeds of government loans raised under other Loan Acts (essentially, money the government has borrowed).
What it's for: Building or upgrading telephone exchange infrastructure — the mechanical and technical systems that connected phone calls in the era before modern digital networks.
Who spends it: The Postmaster-General's Department (the government body that ran Australia's postal services, telephones, and telegraphs at the time).

Why this matters: Parliament must approve every dollar the government spends. This is an appropriation Act — a short, specific law that unlocks the chequebook for a single purpose. In 1936, telephone exchanges were critical national infrastructure, and this Act allowed the government to expand or modernize that network using borrowed funds.

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Loan Appropriation Act 1936

LOAN APPROPRIATION.

No. 30 of 1936.

An Act to authorize the Expending of a certain Sum of Money.

[Assented to 26th September, 1936.]

BE it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows :—

Short title.

This Act may be cited as the Loan Appropriation Act 1936.

Issue and application of £600,000.

There may be issued and applied, out of the proceeds of any Loan raised under the authority of any Loan Act, the sum of Six hundred thousand pounds for the purposes set forth in the Schedule to this Act.

THE SCHEDULE.

—	Appropriated by this Act.
POSTMASTER-GENERAL’S DEPARTMENT.
Under Control of the Postmaster-General’s Department.	£
Telephone Exchange Services.............................	600,000
Total.............................	600,000

Source text

Sourced from the Federal Register of Legislation (legislation.gov.au), CC BY 4.0.

1 Loan Appropriation Act 1936