1Supply Act (No. 1) 1978-79

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Supply Act (No. 1) 1978‑79

No. 44 of 1978

AN ACT

To make interim provision for the appropriation of moneys out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the service of the year ending on 30 June 1979.

[Assented to 12 June 1978]

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Supply Act (No. 1) 1978–79.

Commencement

2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives 5 the Royal Assent.

Issue, application and appropriation of $3,844,039,000

3. (1) The Minister for Finance may issue out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund and apply for the services specified in the Schedule in respect of the financial year ending on 30 June 1979 the sum of $3,844,039,000.

(2) Except where the contrary intention appears in the Schedule, amounts issued by the Minister for Finance under sub‑section (1) in respect of services of a particular description (other than salaries and

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payments in the nature of salary) may be applied only for purposes of a kind for which moneys appropriated in respect of services of that description in an Act appropriating moneys, otherwise than by way of interim provision, for the service of the financial year ending on 30 June 1978 could lawfully have been applied.

(3) The Consolidated Revenue Fund is appropriated to the extent necessary for the purposes of sub‑section (1).

Additional appropriation in respect of increases in salaries

4. (1) In addition to the sum referred to in section 3, the Minister for Finance may, at any time before 30 November 1978, issue out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the service of the year ending on 30 June 1979 amounts not exceeding such amounts as he determines in accordance with sub‑section (2).

(2) The amounts determined by the Minister for Finance under this section shall not exceed the amounts estimated to be necessary for the payment of such increases in salaries and wages, and payments in the nature of salary, for which provision is made in the Schedule, as have become payable or become payable, or have commenced or commence to be paid, after 1 May 1978, in accordance with any law, or in accordance with an award, order or determination made under a law.

(3) Amounts issued under this section may be applied only for the purpose of expenditure in respect of increases referred to in sub‑section (2) in salaries and wages and in payments in the nature of salary.