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This Act has been repealed and is no longer in force. It is retained for historical reference.
This interim Supply Act authorises about $13.3 billion from the Consolidated Revenue Fund to keep Commonwealth public services operating at the start of 1993–94 while the main budget is finalised. It lets departments and listed recipients pay salaries and bills, and provides limited ministerial flexibility for new agencies, retained departmental receipts, pay adjustments and urgent unforeseen outlays.
It affects all Commonwealth departments, agencies and scheduled funding recipients — from defence and health to universities, cultural bodies and international aid.
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Supply Act (No. 1) 1993-94
No. 22 of 1993
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 1994, and for related purposes
[Assented to 9 June 1993]
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) 1993-94.
Issue and application of $13 327 512 000
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(2) Unless the contrary intention appears in the Schedule, amounts issued by the Minister under subsection (1) in respect of services of a particular description (other than running costs 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 1993 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 running costs
(2) The amounts issued by the Minister under subsection (1) may be applied only for the purpose of expenditure on running costs for which an appropriation has been made under an item, subdivision or Division in the Schedule.
(3) The total of the amounts issued under subsection (1) may not exceed $20 000 000.
(4) The Minister must report the amounts so issued to the Parliament.
(5) The Consolidated Revenue Fund is appropriated to the extent necessary for the purposes of this section.
Additional appropriation in respect of increases in salaries
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), the Minister 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 27 April 1993, 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.
(4) The Minister must report the amounts so issued to the Parliament.
(5) The Consolidated Revenue Fund is appropriated as necessary for the purposes of this section.
Further issue, application and appropriation
(2) The amounts determined by the Minister 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.
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; or
(d) from a person (“employee”) appointed or employed by, or performing services for, the Commonwealth as payment for any benefit provided (whether to the employee or another person) in respect of the appointment or employment of, or the services performed by, the employee;
may be credited to that item, subdivision or Division, to the extent and on the conditions agreed between the Minister 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 (1)(a) or (b); or
(b) the provision of services; or
(c) any benefit referred to in paragraph (1)(d);
that amount is taken, for the purposes of subsection (1), to be money received from that sale or other transaction, from the provision of those services or as payment for that benefit (as the case may be), whether or not money has in fact been received in payment of that amount.
Entry Level Training — Payments to Departments
10. (1) If a payment out of money appropriated under subdivision 4 of Division 230 in the Schedule is made to a Department (other than a Parliamentary Department) for running costs or operating expenses, relating to entry level training, the amount so paid is to be credited to the item in the Schedule that appropriates money for running costs or operating expenses (as the case may be) for that Department.
(2) In subsection (1), “Department” has the same meaning as in the Audit Act 1901.
Department of the Arts and Administrative Services
11. (1) If a body to be known as the National Film and Sound Archive 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 and Administrative Services under subdivision 1 or 2 of Division 123 in the Schedule were:
(a) if the body is established on or before 1 July 1993 — an appropriation of that amount to that body; or
(b) if the body is established after 1 July 1993:
(i) an appropriation to that body of so much of that amount as is determined, in writing, by the Minister 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 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 and Administrative Services under subdivision 1 of Division 126 in the Schedule were:
(a) if the body is established on or before 1 July 1993 — an appropriation of that amount to that body; or
(b) if the body is established after 1 July 1993:
(i) an appropriation to that body of so much of that amount as is determined, in writing, by the Minister 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 Regional Development
12. (1) If a body to be known as the Australian Space Council 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 Industry, Technology and Regional Development under subdivision 1 or 5 of Division 380 in the Schedule were:
(a) an appropriation to that body of so much of that amount as is determined, in writing, by the Minister 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
(b) an appropriation of the balance of that amount to the Department for the purpose of meeting running costs or expenses related to the National Space Program (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 Genetically Modified Organisms Release Authority 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 Industry, Technology and Commerce under subdivision 1 of Division 380 in the Schedule were:
(a) an appropriation to that body of so much of that amount as is determined, in writing, by the Minister 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
(b) an appropriation of the balance of that amount to the Department for the purpose of meeting running costs related to the Genetically Modified Organisms Release Authority incurred by the Department preparatory to the establishment of the body.
(3) If money is appropriated for the purposes of an industry innovation program under subdivision 3 of Division 380 in the Schedule, the Schedule is taken, for the purposes of this Act and the Audit Act 1901, to provide that there may be credited to that subdivision any money received;
(a) as repayment of an amount that:
(i) was paid out of money appropriated under mat item or out of money appropriated for the purposes of the program under a previous appropriation; and
(ii) was not spent; or
(b) as payment of fees charged for attendance at a seminar or conference held for the purposes of the program; or
(c) from the sale of publications made available for the purposes of the program.
(4) If the Consolidated Revenue Fund is credited with an amount purporting to be:
(a) a repayment of an amount referred to in paragraph (3)(a): or
(b) a payment in respect of;
(i) a seminar or conference referred to in paragraph (3)(b); or
(ii) a publication referred to in paragraph (3)(c);
that amount is taken, for the purposes of subsection (3), to be money received as repayment of that amount or as payment in respect of the seminar, conference or publication (as the case may be), whether or not money has in fact been received in payment of that amount.
Act to be subject to Loan Act, if enacted
13. If an Act to be cited as the Loan Act 1993 is enacted before the commencement of the Appropriation Act (No. 1), this Act has effect subject to the first-mentioned Act.
SCHEDULE Section 3
ABSTRACT
| Page Reference | Departments and Services | Total |
|---|---|---|
| $ | ||
| 14 | Department of the Arts and Administrative Services............. | 407 368 000 |
| 18 | Attorney-General’s Department........................... | 367 399 000 |
| 24 | Department of Defence................................ | 4 550 014 000 |
| 26 | Department of Employment, Education and Training............. | 1 204 808 000 |
| 29 | Department of the Environment, Sport and Territories............ | 211 444 000 |
| 32 | Department of Finance................................ | 102 110 000 |
| 34 | Advance to the Minister for Finance........................ | 170 000 000 |
| 35 | Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.................... | 923 848 000 |
| 38 | Department of Health, Housing, Local Government and Community Services | 1 095 101 000 |
| 41 | Department of Veterans’ Affairs.......................... | 753 555 000 |
| 42 | Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs................. | 178 551 000 |
| 44 | Department of Industrial Relations......................... | 69 127 000 |
| 47 | Department of Industry, Technology and Regional Development..... | 589 369 000 |
| 51 | Department of Primary Industries and Energy................. | 137 612 000 |
| 54 | Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet................. | 521 374 000 |
| 57 | Department of Social Security............................ | 568 365 000 |
| 59 | Department of Tourism................................ | 38 503 000 |
| 61 | Department of Transport and Communications................. | 734 809 000 |
| 64 | Department of the Treasury............................. | 704 155 000 |
| Total....................................... | 13 327 512 000 |
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DEPARTMENTS AND SERVICES
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Supply Act (No. 1) — 1993-94, Heavy figures
Appropriation — 1992-93 *, Light Figures
| Departments | RunningCosts | OtherServices | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| $ | $ | $ | |
| Department of the Arts and Administrative Services | 142 190 000 | 265 178 000 | 407 368 000 |
| 301 923 000 | 627 108 000 | 929 031 000 | |
| Attorney-General’s Department............... | 221 637 000 | 145 762 000 | 367 399 000 |
| 470 640 000 | 314 107 000 | 784 747 000 | |
| Department of Defence..................... | 2 278 273 000 | 2 271 741 000 | 4 550 014 000 |
| 4 444 423 000 | 5 741 076 000 | 10 185 499 |
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