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Appropriation (2025-2026) Act 2025
NTAIThis Act authorises $9,175,792,000 to be paid from the Central Holding Authority for the financial year ending 30 June 2026 to the agencies and purposes listed in its Schedule (s3(1)–(2)). It commences on assent (s2), is repealed on 1 July 2026 (s4), and allocates output, capital, Commonwealth‑funded items and a Treasurer's Advance so agencies may lawfully...
Appropriation (2026-2027) Bill 2026
VICAppropriation Act 2023
NSWAIThis Act authorises specific payments from the Consolidated Fund for 2023–24 to departments, special offices and named funds, and sets contingency sums for integrity agencies and natural disasters. It gives the Treasurer limited powers to reallocate or approve additional payments in defined circumstances and requires notifying the Auditor‑General of such...
Appropriation Act 2024
NSWAIProvides legal authority to spend money from the Consolidated Fund for 1 July 2024–30 June 2025 by appropriating specified sums to ministers, departments, special offices and trust funds. It also authorises additional health funding from gaming machine taxes and Commonwealth transfer payments. The Act affects public agencies, statutory bodies, local schools...
Appropriation Act 2024
QLDAppropriation Act 2025
NSWAIThis Act authorises specific sums from the Consolidated Fund for the 2025–26 year, allocating money to Ministers, departments, statutory offices, trusts and programs for services, capital and debt repayment. It sets out total line item appropriations and a small number of special and contingent pools. The Treasurer may reallocate or authorise extra payments...
Appropriation Act 2025
QLDAppropriation Act 2025-2026
ACTAIThis Act appropriates $9,099,488,000 to the Australian Capital Territory for the financial year beginning 1 July 2025, allocating amounts to directorates, agencies, the Treasurer’s advance, the capital works reserve and the Superannuation Provision Account for recurrent spending, capital injections and payments on behalf of the Territory (Schedule 1). Its...
Appropriation Act 2026
QLDAIThe Act authorises payments from Queensland’s consolidated fund for departments: $104.658 billion for 2026–27, broken down by department and spending category, and $52.329 billion for 2027–28. The 2026–27 total includes funding already authorised under the Appropriation Act 2025. The Act also repeals two earlier Acts listed in section 4. This is general...
Appropriation Act 2026
NSWAIWhat this Act does (mechanically) Appropriation Acts are the legal instruments that give the government permission to spend public money. Mechanically, an Appropriation Act authorises payments out of the Consolidated Fund (the State’s main account) for particular services, programs or items and for specified amounts and periods. The material you supplied is...
Appropriation Act 2026-2027
ACTAIThis Act authorises up to $9.461 billion in Territory appropriations for the financial year beginning 1 July 2026. It allocates funding among ACT entities for recurrent payments, capital injections and payments made on the Territory’s behalf, and sets aside amounts for the Treasurer’s advance and capital works reserve (ss 4, 6; sch 1). It also specifies how...
Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2023-2024
CTHAIThis Act authorises $146,174,564,000 to be paid from the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the Commonwealth’s ordinary annual services, allocated by department, administered programs and corporate entities in Schedule 1 (s6; Schedule 1). Parliament funds those programs via the CRF; the Finance Minister can make determinations to provide up to $400 million for...
Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2024
TASAIWhat it does: This Act authorises the Treasurer to issue and appropriate $8,057,461,000 from the Public Account for government services in the 2024–25 year, to be applied to items in Schedule 1 and the agency estimates. It commenced 1 July 2024 and expires 30 June 2026. Who decides and how money flows: the Treasurer releases funds from the Public Account;...
Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2024-2025
CTHAIThis Act authorises $162,591,075,000 from the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the ordinary annual services of government in 2024–25, allocating amounts to departmental, administered and corporate entity items by portfolio. Mechanically, it sets how those amounts may be applied, treats internal notional transactions as debits against items, allows the Finance...
Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2025
TASAIThis Act authorises the Treasurer to issue and appropriate $8,825,623,000 from the Public Account for government services for the 2025–26 year (s 4); it took effect on 1 July 2025 (s 2) and expires on 30 June 2027 (s 6). The money is to be applied for the purposes listed in Schedule 1 and as detailed in agency estimates (s 5). Who pays: the Public Account....
Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2025-2026
CTHAIThis Act authorises $83,444,802,000 to be drawn from the Consolidated Revenue Fund for ordinary annual government services in 2025–26 (Schedule 1). It sets out departmental, administered and corporate entity appropriation items, treats internal notional transactions as real for accounting, and declares Portfolio Budget Statements a relevant interpretive...
Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2026
TASAIWhat this law does (mechanically) This is an Appropriation Act for the Tasmanian Government for the relevant financial year. Appropriation Acts authorise the government to withdraw money from the Consolidated Fund (the central government bank account) and to apply those funds to government services. Practically, the Act gives the Treasurer and departments...
Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2026‑2027
CTHAIWhat it does: This Act appropriates $178,650,611,000 for the 2026–27 financial year (s6), sets out departmental, administered and corporate‑entity items (ss7–9), treats notional intra‑Commonwealth transactions as real for appropriation purposes (s5), lets the Finance Minister add amounts by determination up to $400 million (plus up to $2,000 million for...
Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2023-2024
CTHAIThis Act authorises specified payments totalling $28,182,598,000 from the Consolidated Revenue Fund for 2023–24 across Commonwealth portfolios, sets how those sums may be applied, and fixes debit limits and GST adjustment rules. It gives the Finance Minister a limited advance power (up to $600 million) for urgent omissions and lets specified Ministers...
Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2024
TASAIThis Act authorises the Treasurer to issue $53,235,000 from the Public Account for government services in the 2024–25 financial year (s 4). The money must be applied to the purposes listed in Schedule 1 and the agency estimates (s 5). The Act commenced 1 July 2024 and expires 30 June 2026 (ss 2, 6). The Treasurer’s issuance power creates administrative...
Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2024-2025
CTHAIThis Act authorises $24,589,880,000 to be paid from the Consolidated Revenue Fund to specified Commonwealth departments, agencies and for payments to States, territories and local governments for 2024–25; it treats notional intra‑Commonwealth transactions as real for appropriation accounting and expires on 1 July 2027. It allows the Finance Minister to add...
Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2025
TASAIMechanically, this Act authorises the Treasurer to issue and appropriate $58,241,000 from the Public Account for government services in the 2025–26 financial year, with the funds to be applied for purposes listed in Schedule 1 and agency estimates. It defines "Capital Services" and "Operating Services", takes effect from 1 July 2025 and expires on 30 June...
Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2025-2026
CTHAIThis Act appropriates $14,571,651,000 from the Consolidated Revenue Fund for specified Commonwealth departmental, administered and corporate entity expenditures in 2025–26, itemised by portfolio and outcome. It treats internal (notional) transfers between non‑corporate Commonwealth entities as if they were real and allows amounts to be credited to special...
Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2026
TASAIWhat this law does (mechanically) An "Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2026" is a public spending law for the Tasmanian Government. Its legal effect is to give Parliament’s formal approval for the Government to withdraw specified amounts from the Consolidated Fund (the central government bank account) and to apply those amounts to particular services, agencies or...
Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2026-2027
CTHAIWhat it does: Provides a supplementary appropriation for 2026–27 (total items $33,667,593,000) and explains how those amounts may be used — e.g. administered payments, departmental expenditure, payments to States/territories/local governments, and payments to corporate entities. It lets the Finance Minister amend Schedule 2 for urgent omissions (up to...
Appropriation Act (No. 3) 2023-2024
CTHAIThis Act authorises an additional $8,703,757,000 from the Consolidated Revenue Fund for ordinary annual government services across Australian portfolios. It sets how those sums may be applied (departmental, administered and corporate‑entity items), treats intra‑Commonwealth “notional” transactions as if real for accounting, and preserves mechanics for...
Appropriation Act (No. 3) 2024-2025
CTHAIThe Appropriation Act (No. 3) 2024–2025 authorises an additional $7,034,632,000 from the Consolidated Revenue Fund to fund ordinary annual services across Commonwealth portfolios (Schedule 1; s.6). It specifies how departmental, administered and corporate payments may be applied and permits amounts to be credited to special accounts (ss.7–9, 11). The Act...
Appropriation Act (No. 3) 2025-2026
CTHAIThis Act authorises an extra $9,184,444,000 from the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the ordinary annual services of government in 2025–26, and allocates that money across departmental, administered and corporate entity items. It declares the portfolio budget and additional estimates statements relevant for interpreting spending, treats internal “notional”...
Appropriation Act (No. 4) 2023-2024
CTHAIThis Act appropriates an additional $2,265,360,000 from the Consolidated Revenue Fund to pay for specified Commonwealth services, transfers to States/ACT/NT/local governments, equity injections and other payments to departmental and corporate entities. It records amounts by portfolio, treats intra‑Commonwealth notional transactions as appropriation‑debited...
Appropriation Act (No. 4) 2024-2025
CTHAIThis Act appropriates an additional $5,080,634,000 from the Consolidated Revenue Fund to finance specified Commonwealth services, payments to States/territories/local governments, administered outcomes, equity injections and corporate funding. It applies to Commonwealth departments, corporate and non‑corporate entities and sub‑national governments, sets...
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