95Payments in and out of the Traditional Owners Fund

95 Payments in and out of the Traditional Owners Fund (1) There must be paid into the Traditional Owners Fund— (a) all money that is appropriated by the Parliament for the purposes of the Fund; and (b) money paid to VicGrid for the purpose of the Fund; and (c) all money that is received from the investment of money in the Fund; and (d) an amount of money determined by the Treasurer, after consultation with the Minister; and (e) money directed or authorised to be paid into the Fund by or under this or any other Act. (2) Money in the Traditional Owners Fund may be paid out of the Fund for the purpose of covering the costs of administering the Fund. (3) On an agreed date every year, all money standing to the credit of the Traditional Owners Fund, less any money paid out of the Fund under subsection (2), must be paid into the self-determination fund. (4) VicGrid may, on the agreed date or as soon as practicable after that date, notify, in writing, the administrator of the self-determination fund of the details of the system infrastructure in respect of which money or a specified portion of money was paid into the Traditional Owners Fund that is to be used to benefit traditional owners impacted by the system infrastructure. (5) For the purposes of subsection (4), the details of the system infrastructure are— (a) the kind of system infrastructure; and (b) the location of the system infrastructure. ***administrator***, of the self-determination fund, means— (a) the Aboriginal Representative Body within the meaning of the **Advancing the Treaty Process with Aboriginal Victorians Act 2018**; or (b) if the Aboriginal Representative Body has appointed a company, wholly owned by the Aboriginal Representative Body, to hold the self-determination fund on trust under section 37(2) of the **Advancing the Treaty Process with Aboriginal Victorians Act 2018**, that company; ***agreed date*** means the date agreed by the administrator of the self-determination fund and VicGrid; S. 95(6) def. of *self-determination fund* amended by No. 9/2026 s. 27. ***self-determination fund*** means the self-determination fund referred to in section 35 of the **Advancing the Treaty Process with Aboriginal Victorians Act 2018**; ***system infrastructure*** means— (a) infrastructure forming part of the declared transmission system; or (b) infrastructure that is planned to be constructed and to form part of the declared transmission system; or (c) generating systems or integrated resource systems connected to the declared transmission system; or (d) generating systems or integrated resource systems planned to be constructed and connected to the declared transmission system. Division 4—Miscellaneous S. 96 inserted by No. 38/2025 s. 50.