Supply Act (No. 2) 1987-88
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Supply Act (No. 2) 1987-88
No. 33 of 1987
An Act to make interim provision for the appropriation of money out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for certain expenditure in respect of the year ending on 30 June 1988, and for other purposes
[Assented to 2 June 1987]
BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:
Short title
- This Act may be cited as the Supply Act (No. 2) 1987-88.
Commencement
- This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
Issue, application and appropriation of $2,404,294,000
- (1) The Minister for Finance may issue out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund and apply for the services specified in Schedule 2 in respect of the financial year ending on 30 June 1988 the sum of $2,404,294,000.
(2) Except where the contrary intention appears in Schedule 2, amounts issued by the Minister for Finance under subsection (1) in respect of services described in Schedule 2 as Capital Works and Services may be applied only for purposes of a kind for which money appropriated in respect of services so described in an Act appropriating money, otherwise than by way of interim provision, for expenditure in respect of the financial year ending on 30 June 1987 could lawfully have been applied.
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(3) Except where the contrary intention appears in Schedule 2, amounts issued by the Minister for Finance under subsection (1) in respect of payments to or for the States and the Northern Territory may be applied only in making payments to or for the States and the Northern Territory of a kind that could lawfully have been made out of money appropriated for payments to or for the States and the Northern Territory in an Act appropriating money, otherwise than by way of interim provision, for expenditure in respect of the financial year ending on 30 June 1987.
(4) The Consolidated Revenue Fund is appropriated to the extent necessary for the purposes of subsection (1).
Payments to States and Northern Territory, etc.
- (1) In this section:
"Appropriation Act" means an Act appropriating money for expenditure in respect of a financial year and includes an Act appropriating money, by way of interim provision, for such expenditure;
"person" includes:
(a) a State;
(b) a Territory;
(c) a local government body;