3Issue, application and appropriation of $5,741,316,000

Issue, application and appropriation of $5,741,316,000

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 1984 the sum of $5,741,316,000.

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(2) Amounts issued by the Minister for Finance under sub-section (1) in respect of services of a particular description (other than salaries and 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 1983 could lawfully have been applied.

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