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APPROPRIATION (PARLIAMENTARY DEPARTMENTS) ACT 1992-93 No. 140, 1992
APPROPRIATION (PARLIAMENTARY DEPARTMENTS) ACT 1992-93 No. 140 of 1992 - LONG TITLE
An Act to appropriate certain sums out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for certain expenditure in relation to the Parliamentary Departments in respect of the year ending on 30 June 1993, and for related purposes APPROPRIATION (PARLIAMENTARY DEPARTMENTS) ACT 1992-93 No. 140 of 1992 - SECT 1 Short title
(Assented to 23 November 1992) 1. This Act may be cited as the Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act 1992-93. (Minister's second reading speech made in- House of Representatives on 18 August 1992 Senate on 13 October 1992) APPROPRIATION (PARLIAMENTARY DEPARTMENTS) ACT 1992-93 No. 140 of 1992 - SECT 2 Commencement
2. This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent. APPROPRIATION (PARLIAMENTARY DEPARTMENTS) ACT 1992-93 No. 140 of 1992 - SECT 3 Issue and application of $62 225 000
3. 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 year ending on 30 June 1993, the sum of $62 225 000. APPROPRIATION (PARLIAMENTARY DEPARTMENTS) ACT 1992-93 No. 140 of 1992 - SECT 4 Appropriation of $115 339 000
4. The following sums amounting in the aggregate, as appears in Schedule l, to $115 339 000, are appropriated, and are taken to have been appropriated as from 1 July 1992, for the services expressed in Schedule 2 in respect of the year that commenced on that day: (a) the sum appropriated by section 3 of the Supply (Parliamentary Departments) Act 1992-93; and (b) the sum specified in section 3 of this Act. APPROPRIATION (PARLIAMENTARY DEPARTMENTS) ACT 1992-93 No. 140 of 1992 - SECT 5 Additional appropriation in respect of increases in salaries
5. (1) In addition to the sums referred to in section 4, the Minister for Finance may issue out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the service of the year ending on 30 June 1993 amounts not exceeding such amounts as are determined by the President, by the Speaker, or by the President and the Speaker, in accordance with subsection (2), (3) or (4), as the case may be. (2) The amounts determined by the President under this subsection must not exceed 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 Subdivision 1 of Division 101 in Schedule 2, as have become payable or become payable, or have commenced or commence to be paid, during the year ending 30 June 1993, in accordance with a law, or an award, order or determination made under a law.
(3) The amounts determined by the Speaker under this subsection must not exceed 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 Subdivision 1 of Division 103 in Schedule 2, as have become payable or become payable, or have commenced or commence to be paid, during the year ending 30 June 1993, in accordance with a law, or an award, order or determination made under a law.
(4) The amounts determined by the President and the Speaker under this subsection must not exceed 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 Subdivision 1 of Division 105, Subdivision 1 of Division 106, or Subdivision 1 of 107, in Schedule 2, as have become payable or become payable, or have commenced or commence to be paid, during the year ending 30 June 1993, in accordance with a law, or an award, order or determination made under a law.
(5) Amounts issued under subsection (l) may be applied only for the purpose of expenditure in respect of increases referred to in subsection (2), (3) or (4) in salaries and in payments in the nature of salary and the Minister for Finance must report the amounts so issued to the Parliament.
(6) The Consolidated Revenue Fund is appropriated to the extent necessary for the purposes of this section. APPROPRIATION (PARLIAMENTARY DEPARTMENTS) ACT 1992-93 No. 140 of 1992 - SECT 6 Amounts expended under Supply Act in respect of increases in salaries
6. Amounts issued, before the commencement of this Act, in accordance with section 4 of the Supply (Parliamentary Departments) Act 1992-93, and applied in payment of operating expenses (including recurrent expenditure) for which provision is made in Schedule 2 by way of payment of salaries or payments in the nature of salary, are taken to have been issued and applied under this Act. APPROPRIATION (PARLIAMENTARY DEPARTMENTS) ACT 1992-93 No. 140 of 1992 - SECT 7 Net annotated appropriations
7. (1) If the description of the purpose of an appropriation set out in an item, subdivision or Division of Schedule 2 concludes with the words "(net appropriation see section 7)" that Schedule is taken, for the purposes of this Act and the Audit Act 1901, to provide that any money received: (a) from the sale, leasing or hiring out of or any other dealing with, goods or 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 for Finance and the Presiding Officer or Presiding Officers responsible for the Department 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 (l), 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. APPROPRIATION (PARLIAMENTARY DEPARTMENTS) ACT 1992-93 No. 140 of 1992 - SECT 8 Advances to President, Speaker or President and Speaker
8. (1) Expenditure in relation to the Senate in excess of specific appropriation may be charged to such subdivision of Division 101 in Schedule 2 as the President may direct but the total expenditure so charged in the year ending on 30 June 1993, after deduction of amounts of repayments, must not at any time exceed the amount appropriated for that year under the head "Advance to the President of the Senate". (2) Expenditure in relation to the House of Representatives in excess of specific appropriation may be charged to such subdivision of Division 103 in Schedule 2 as the Speaker may direct but the total expenditure so charged in the year ending 30 June 1993, after deduction of amounts of repayments, must not at any time exceed the amount appropriated for that year under the head "Advance to the Speaker of the House of Representatives".
(3) Expenditure in relation to the Parliamentary Reporting Staff, the Parliamentary Library or the Joint House Department in excess of specific appropriation may be charged to such subdivision of Division 105, 106 or 107 in Schedule 2 as the President and the Speaker both direct but the total expenditure so charged in the year ending 30 June 1993, after deduction of amounts of repayments, must not at any time exceed the amount appropriated for that year under the head "Joint Advance to the President and the Speaker". APPROPRIATION (PARLIAMENTARY DEPARTMENTS) ACT 1992-93 No. 140 of 1992 - SCHEDULE 1
SCHEDULE 1 Section 4 SUMS AUTHORISED TO BE ISSUED OUT OF THE CONSOLIDATED REVENUE FUND $ By the Supply (Parliamentary Departments) Act 1992-93 53 114 000 By this Act 62 225 000 Total 115 339 000 SCHEDULE 2 OMITTED