Appropriation Act 1999-2000 (ACT)
AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
Appropriation Act 1999-2000
No. 36 of 1999
An Act to appropriate money for the purposes of the Territory in respect of the financial year commencing on 1 July 1999 and for related purposes
[Notified in ACT Gazette S44: 12 July 1999]
The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:
Short title
This Act may be cited as the Appropriation Act 1999-2000.
Commencement
This Act commences on the day on which it is notified in the Gazette.
Purposes
This Act is made for the purposes of—
(a) sections 57 and 58 of the Australian Capital Territory (Self‑Government) Act 1988 of the Commonwealth; and
(b) sections 6 and 8 of the Financial Management Act 1996.
Interpretation
A word or expression in this Act has the same meaning as in the Financial Management Act 1996.
In this Act—
“financial year” means the year commencing on 1 July 1999.
Appropriations of $1,863,649,241
Where a department is mentioned in column 1 in a Part of Schedule 1—
(a) the amount mentioned in column 3 in that Part is appropriated to the department for the net cost of providing outputs in the financial year for the appropriation unit mentioned in column 2 in the Part;
(b) the amount mentioned in column 4 in that Part is appropriated to the department for capital injection in the financial year for the appropriation unit mentioned in column 2 of the Part; and
(c) the amount mentioned in column 5 in that Part is appropriated to the department for payments to be made on behalf of the Territory in the financial year for the appropriation unit mentioned in column 2 of the Part.
The amount mentioned in column 6 in Part 16 of Schedule 1 is appropriated to the Treasurer’s advance for the purposes of section 18 of the Financial Management Act 1996.
Appropriation units and output classes
A group of outputs mentioned in column 2 of Schedule 2 is identified as a class of outputs for the purposes of the Financial Management Act 1996.
An appropriation unit mentioned in column 1 of Schedule 2 consists of the class of outputs, or the group of output classes, mentioned in column 2 of that Schedule opposite the appropriation unit.
Commonwealth specific purpose payments
Section 17 of the Financial Management Act 1996 applies to all appropriations under subsection 5 (1) of this Act except the appropriations to the following departments:
(a) Legislative Assembly Secretariat;
(b) Auditor-General;
(c) ACT Executive;
(d) Central Financing Unit;
(e) Superannuation and Insurance Provision Unit;
(f) InTACT;
(g) ACTION;
(h) ACT Forests.
Payments to the Commonwealth
Section 17A of the Financial Management Act 1996 applies to the appropriation mentioned in column 5 in Part 14 of Schedule 1.
Amendment of the Financial Management Act
After section 17 of the Financial Management Act 1996 the following section is inserted:
“17A. Variations of appropriations for certain payments to the Commonwealth
This section applies to an appropriation that is declared by the Act by which it is made to be an appropriation to which the section applies.
Where—
(a)an appropriation to which this section applies is made wholly or partially for a payment required to be made to the Commonwealth for the provision of a service;
(b)an estimate of the amount of the payment is contained in the budget papers laid before the Legislative Assembly in conjunction with the Bill for the Act by which the appropriation is made; and
(c)the amount of the payment exceeds the amount of the estimate;
the Treasurer may, by instrument, direct that the appropriation be increased by an amount not exceeding the difference between the amount of the estimate and the amount of the payment.
Where the Treasurer gives a direction under subsection (2), he or she shall cause a copy of the direction to be laid before the Legislative Assembly within 3 sitting days after it is given.
This section ceases to have effect on the expiration of 30 June 2000.”.
SCHEDULE 1 Section 5
APPROPRIATIONS
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| Department | Appropriation unit | Net cost of outputs $ | Capital injection $ | Payments on behalf of Territory $ | Total $ |
| Part 1 Legislative Assembly Secretariat | Legislative Assembly Secretariat | 4,044,000 | 2,994,000 | 7,038,000 | |
| Part 2 Auditor-General | Auditor-General | 904,000 | 904,000 | ||
| Part 3 Chief Minister’s Department | Chief Minister’s | 67,077,000 | 35,731,241 | 18,422,000 | 121,230,241 |
| Part 4 ACT Executive | ACT Executive | 2,922,000 | 2,922,000 | ||
| Part 5 Office of Asset Management | Government Asset Management | 13,426,000 | 13,426,000 | ||
| Part 6 Central Financing Unit | Central Financing Unit | 2,427,000 | 20,017,000 | 22,444,000 | |
| Part 7 Superannuation and Insurance Provision Unit | Superannuation and Insurance Provision Unit | 300,000,000 | 19,246,000 | 319,246,000 | |
| Part 8 Department of Health and Community Care | Health and Community Care | 318,691,000 | 32,811,000 | 9,948,000 | 361,450,000 |
| Part 9 Department of Urban Services | Urban Services | 223,157,000 | 76,273,000 | 1,022,000 | 300,452,000 |
| Part 10 InTACT | The InTACT Group | 17,640,000 | 17,640,000 | ||
| Part 11 ACT Housing | ACT Housing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Part 12 ACTION | ACTION | 3,238,000 | 3,238,000 | ||
| Part 13 ACT Forests | ACT Forests | 340,000 | 340,000 | ||
| Part 14 Department of Justice and Community Safety | Justice and Community Safety | 81,690,000 | 5,369,000 | 64,590,000 | 151,649,000 |
| Part 15 Department of Education and Community Services | Education and Community Services | 392,595,000 | 27,254,000 | 103,721,000 | 523,570,000 |
| Total appropriated to departments | 1,088,158,000 | 514,509,241 | 242,882,000 | 1,845,549,241 | |
| Part 16 Treasurer’s advance | 18,100,000 | ||||
| Total appropriations | 1,088,158,000 | 514,509,241 | 242,882,000 | 1,863,649,241 |
SCHEDULE 2 Section 6
APPROPRIATION UNITS
AND OUTPUT CLASSES
| 1 | 2 |
| Appropriation unit | Class of output |
| Legislative Assembly Secretariat | 1. Procedural, policy and administrative servicing of the Assembly, its members and committees |
| Auditor-General | 1. Auditor-General |
| Chief Minister’s | 1. Government strategy |
| 2. Financial and economic management | |
| ACT Executive | 1. ACT Executive |
| Government Asset Management | 1. Government asset management |
| Central Financing Unit | 1. Central Financing Unit |
| Superannuation and Insurance Provision Unit | 1. Superannuation and Insurance Provision Unit |
| Health and Community Care | 1. Policy, planning and health outcomes |
| 2. Purchase of health, aged and disability services | |
| 3. Community and health services complaints | |
| 4. Payments for services purchased | |
| Urban Services | 1. Urban services |
| 2. Transport | |
| 3. Housing | |
| 4. Environment and heritage | |
| 5. Planning and land management | |
| The InTACT Group | 1. The InTACT Group |
| ACT Housing | 1. ACT Housing |
| ACTION | 1. ACTION |
| ACT Forests | 1. Forests |
| Justice and Community Safety | 1. Policy advice |
| 2. Justice and legal services | |
| 3. Regulatory services | |
| 4. Emergency management |
| 1 | 2 |
| Appropriation unit | Class of output |
Education and Community Services | 1. Government school education |
| 2. Non-government school education | |
| 3. Vocational education and training services | |
| 4. Children’s services | |
| 5. Youth services | |
| 6. Family services | |
| 7. Sport and recreation services | |
| 8. Policy advice and services to the Minister and the Government |
[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 4 May 1999]
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