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Commonwealth act
This Act has been repealed and is no longer in force. It is retained for historical reference.
This Act authorises an interim appropriation of $12,382,516,000 from the Consolidated Revenue Fund for government departments and programs for the year ending 30 June 1993 (s4). It gives the Minister for Finance power to issue those amounts, to provide additional amounts for salary increases before 1 December 1992 (s5), and to determine further issues including transfers to the Loan Consolidation and Investment Reserve (s8). It allows certain departmental receipts to be credited against appropriations (s7) and sets contingent reallocations if new statutory bodies are created (ss9–12).
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Supply Act (No. 1) 1992-93
No. 42 of 1992
An Act to make interim provision for the appropriation of money out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the service of the year ending on 30 June 1993, and for related purposes
[Assented to 5 June 1992]
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
Short title
Commencement
Interpretation
“Appropriation Act (No. 1)” means the Act to be cited as the Appropriation Act (No. 1) 1992-93.
Issue and application of $12 382 516 000
33827 Cat. No. 92 4612 X
(2) Unless the contrary intention appears in the Schedule, amounts issued by the Minister for Finance under subsection (1) in respect of services of a particular description (other than running costs, property operating expenses or operating expenses) may be applied only for purposes of a kind for which money appropriated in respect of services of that description in an Act appropriating money (otherwise than by way of interim provision) for the service of the year ending on 30 June 1992 could lawfully have been applied.
(3) The Consolidated Revenue Fund is appropriated as necessary for the purposes of subsection (1).
Additional appropriation in respect of increases in salaries
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), the Minister for Finance may determine amounts not exceeding the amounts estimated to be necessary for the payment of such increases in salaries, 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 17 March 1992, under a law, or 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 subsection (2) in salaries and in payments in the nature of salary and the Minister for Finance must report the amounts so issued to the Parliament.
(4) The Consolidated Revenue Fund is appropriated as necessary for the purposes of this section.
Money appropriated for a program
(a) the purpose of payments (including advances) under Acts administered as part of the program; and
(b) other purposes of the program, being purposes for which appropriation has been made in an earlier Act.
Net annotated appropriations
(a) from the sale, leasing or hiring out of, or other dealing with, goods or other personal property; or
(b) from the sale of real property used for the purpose of providing staff residential accommodation or from the leasing of real property for that purpose; or
(c) from the provision of services;
may be credited to that item, subdivision or Division, to the extent and on the conditions agreed between the Minister for Finance and the Minister responsible for the Department, statutory authority, or other body for which the appropriation is made.
(2) If the Consolidated Revenue Fund is credited with an amount purported to have been paid in respect of:
(a) a sale, or other transaction, referred to in paragraph (l)(a) or (b); or
(b) the provision of services;
that amount is taken, for the purposes of subsection (1), to be money received from that sale or other transaction or from the provision of those services (as the case may be), whether or not money has in fact been received in payment of that amount.
Further issue, application and appropriation
(2) The amounts determined by the Minister for Finance under subsection (1) are appropriated for the purposes of the Loan Consolidation and Investment Reserve established by the Loan Consolidation and Investment Reserve Act 1955.
Department of the Arts, Sport, the Environment and Territories
(a) if the body is established on or before 1 July 1992 — an appropriation of that amount to that body; or
(b) if the body is established after 1 July 1992:
(i) an appropriation to that body of so much of that amount as is determined, in writing, by the Minister for Finance to be required for the purposes of that body in respect of the period ending immediately before the commencement of the Appropriation Act (No. 1); and
(ii) an appropriation of the balance of that amount to the Department for the purpose of meeting running costs, property operating expenses or collection expenses (as the case may be) incurred by the Department preparatory to the establishment of the body.
(2) If a body to be known as the National Science and Technology Centre is established by legislation before the commencement of the Appropriation Act (No. 1), this Act has effect, and is taken at all times to have had effect, as if the appropriation of an amount to the Department of the Arts, Sport, the Environment and Territories under subdivision 1 or 2 of Division 152 in the Schedule were:
(a) if the body is established on or before 1 July 1992 — an appropriation of that amount to that body; or
(b) if the body is established after 1 July 1992:
(i) an appropriation to that body of so much of that amount as is determined, in writing, by the Minister for Finance to be required for the purposes of that body in respect of the period ending immediately before the commencement of the Appropriation Act (No. 1); and
(ii) an appropriation of the balance of that amount to the Department for the purpose of meeting running costs or property operating expenses (as the case may be) incurred by the Department preparatory to the establishment of the body.
Attorney-General’s Department
(a) if the body is established on or before 1 July 1992 — an appropriation of that amount to mat body; or
(b) if the body is established after 1 July 1992:
(i) an appropriation to that body of so much of that amount as is determined, in writing, by the Minister for Finance to be required for the purposes of that body in respect of the period ending immediately before the commencement of the Appropriation Act (No. 1); and
(ii) an appropriation of the balance of that amount to the Department for the purpose of meeting running costs or property operating expenses (as the case may be) incurred by the Department preparatory to the establishment of the body.
Department of Industrial Relations
(a) if the body is established on or before 1 July 1992 — an appropriation of that amount to that body; or
(b) if the body is established after 1 July 1992:
(i) an appropriation to that body of so much of that amount as is determined, in writing, by the Minister for Finance to be required for the purposes of that body in respect of the period ending immediately before the commencement of the Appropriation Act (No. 1); and
(ii) an appropriation of the balance of that amount to the Department for the purpose of meeting running costs incurred by the Department preparatory to the establishment of the body.
Department of Industry, Technology and Commerce
(a) if the body is established on or before 1 July 1992 — an appropriation of that amount to that body; or
(b) if the body is established after 1 July 1992:
(i) an appropriation to mat body of so much of mat amount as is determined, in writing, by the Minister for Finance to be required for the purposes of that body in respect of the period ending immediately before the commencement of the Appropriation Act (No. 1); and
(ii) an appropriation of the balance of that amount to the Organisation for the purpose of meeting its operating expenses.
Act to be subject to Loan Act, if enacted
SCHEDULE Section 3
ABSTRACT
| Page Reference | Departments and Services | Total |
|---|---|---|
| $ | ||
| 12 | Department of Administrative Services........................... | 235 651 000 |
| 15 | Department of the Arts, Sport, the Environment and Territories........... | 306 531 000 |
| 21 | Attorney-General’s Department................................ | 355 122 000 |
| 28 | Department ot Defence...................................... | 4 252 811 000 |
| 30 | Department of Employment, Education and Training.................. | 1 342 789 000 |
| 33 | Department of Finance..................................... | 94 878 000 |
| 35 | Advance to the Minister for Finance............................. | 170 000 000 |
| 36 | Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade......................... | 867 666 000 |
| 39 | Department of Health, Housing and Community Services............... | 957 143 000 |
| 42 | Department of Veterans’ Affairs............................... | 710 616 000 |
| 43 | Department of Immigration, Local Government and Ethnic Affairs........ | 175 157 000 |
| 45 | Department of Industrial Relations.............................. | 174 291 000 |
| 48 | Department of Industry, Technology and Commerce.................. | 591 229 000 |
| 52 | Department of Primary Industries and Energy...................... | 233 492 000 |
| 55 | Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet...................... | 68 759 000 |
| 58 | Department of Social Security................................. | 525 409 000 |
| 60 | Department of Tourism..................................... | 42 111 000 |
| 62 | Department of Transport and Communications...................... | 625 825 000 |
| 65 | Department of the Treasury.................................. | 653 036 000 |
| Total................................................ | 12 382 516 000 |
DEPARTMENTS AND SERVICES
Supply Bill (No. 1) — 1992-93, Heavy Figures
Appropriation — 1991-92 *, Light Figures
| Departments | Running Costs | Other Services | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| $ | $ | $ | |
| Department of Administrative Services............. | 97 490 000 | 138 161 000 | 235 651 000 |
| 202 377 000 | 293 235 000 | 495 612 000 | |
| Department of the Arts, Sport, the Environment and Territories | 89 471 000 | 217 060 000 | 306 531 000 |
| 194 052 000 | 500 181 000 | 694 233 000 | |
| Attorney-General’s Department.................. | 184 089 000 | 171 033 000 | 355 122 000 |
| 447 411 000 | 377 830 000 | 825 241 000 | |
| Department of Defence........................ | 1 951 571 000 | 2 301 240 000 | 4 252 811 000 |
| 4 272 428 000 | 4 870 912 000 | 9 143 340 000 | |
| Department of Employment, Education and Training.... | 260 287 000 | 1 082 502 000 | 1 342 789 000 |
| 545 192 000 | 3 385 816 000 | 3 931 008 000 | |
| Department of Finance........................ | 57 576 000 | 37 302 000 | 94 878 000 |
| 129 898 000 | 79 227 000 | 209 125 000 | |
| Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade............ | 174 675 000 | 692 991 000 | 867 666 000 |
| 375 469 000 | 1 489 662 000 | 1 865 131 000 | |
| Department of Health, Housing and Community Services. | 95 038 000 | 862 105 000 | 957 143 000 |
| 188 756 000 | 1 776 718 000 | 1 965 474 000 | |
| Department of Veterans’ Affairs.................. | 75 884 000 | 634 732 000 | 710 616 000 |
| 171 400 000 | 1 284 995 000 | 1 456 395 000 | |
| Department of Immigration, Local Government and Ethnic Affairs | 99 242 000 | 75 915 000 | 175 157 000 |
| 210 901 000 | 171 |
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