Appropriation Act (No. 4) 1985-86 (Cth)

Appropriation Act (No. 4) 1985-86

No. 31 of 1986

 

An Act to appropriate a sum out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, additional to the sum appropriated by the Appropriation Act (No. 2) 1985-86, for certain expenditure in respect of the year ending on 30 June 1986, and for other purposes

[Assented to 3 June 1986]

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Appropriation Act (No. 4) 1985-86.

Commencement

2. This Act shall come into operation on the day it receives the Royal Assent.

Issue and application of $183 567 000

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 1986, the sum of $183 567 000.

 

Appropriation

4. The sum authorized by this Act to be issued out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund is appropriated, and shall be deemed to have been appropriated as from 1 July 1985 for the services specified in Schedule 2 in respect of the financial year that commenced on that date.

Payments to States and Northern Territory, &c.

5. (1) In this section and in determinations for the purposes of paragraph (2) (a) or (b)—

“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; and

(d) an organisation.

(2) Payments out of such of the money appropriated by this Act as is specified in the Division, or unit of a Division, in Schedule 2 specified in column 2 in an item in Schedule 1 made to or for a person for a purpose specified in column 3 in that item shall be made—

(a) on such terms and conditions (if any) as are from time to time determined, by instrument in writing, for the purposes of Appropriation Acts by the Minister specified in column 4 in that item as being terms and conditions applicable to payments under such Acts to or for that person for that purpose; and

(b) in accordance with any determinations, by instrument in writing, of the Minister specified in column 5 in that item as to the amounts and times of payments.

(3) Payments to a State or the Northern Territory out of such of the money appropriated by this Act as is specified in Division 977 in Schedule 2 shall be made in accordance with any determinations of the Treasurer as to the amounts and times of payments.

Transfer of Nurse Education

6. The Appropriation Act (No. 2) 1985-86 has effect, and shall be taken to have had effect at all times after its commencement, as if the reference in item 8 of Division 882 in Schedule 3 to that Act to “Transfer of Nurse Education to Colleges of Advanced Education—Subsidy to or through the States” were a reference to “States Grants (Nurse Education Transfer Assistance) Act 1985— Payments”.

Grain Harvesters Subsidy

7. The Appropriation Act (No. 2) 1985-86 has effect, and shall be taken to have had effect at all times after its commencement, as if the reference

 

in item 9 of Division 912 in Schedule 3 to that Act to “Bounty, and advances on account of bounty, under the Bounty (Grain Harvesters) Act 1985”were a reference to “Subsidy, and advances on account of subsidy, under the Subsidy (Grain Harvesters and Equipment) Act 1985”.

Australian Traineeships System—Payments to Departments and Authorities

8. (1) Where money appropriated by the Appropriation Act (No. 2) 1985-86 that is specified in item 2 of Division 862 in Schedule 3 to that Act is paid to a Department for salaries and payments in the nature of salary or for administrative expenses, that money shall be credited to the item in Schedule 2 of the Appropriation Act (No. 1) 1985-86 that specifies money for salaries and payments in the nature of salary, or for administrative expenses, as the case may be, of that Department.

(2) In sub-section (1), “Department” has the same meaning as in the Audit Act 1901.

   

SCHEDULE 1 Section 5

Column 1 Item	Column 2 Division, &c.	Column 3 Purpose	Column 4 Minister determining conditions	Column 5 Minister determining payments
1	Division 819	Grants to supplement voluntary and community legal aid schemes.	Attorney-General	Attorney-General
2	Division 861	Projects which provide infra-structure assistance for the steel regions.	Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations	Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations
3	Division 865	Natural disaster relief and restoration.	Minister for Finance	Minister for Finance
4	Division 882	Payment of operating expenses upon transfer of Launceston Pathology Laboratory to Tasmania.	Minister for Health	Minister for Health
5	Division 932	Special research. Extensions to fishing port facilities or for construction of the grain handling terminal at Port Kembla, as the case may be, which provide infra-structure assistance to steel regions.	Minister for Primary Industry	Minister for Primary Industry
Assistance to users of fertilizers subject to dumping duties.
6	Sub-division 7 of Division 943	Assistance to small tin producers.	Minister for Resources and Energy	Minister for Resources and Energy
7	Division 965	To facilitate Chinese participation in the Portland Aluminium Smelter.	Minister for Trade	Minister for Trade

   

SCHEDULE 2 Section 4

ABSTRACT

Page Reference	Departments and Services	Total
$
6	Department of Aboriginal Affairs...................................................................	1 186 000
6	Department of Arts, Heritage and Environment...........................................	8 253 000
6	Attorney-General’s Department......................................................................	338 000
7	Department of Aviation.....................................................................................	1 434 000
7	Department of Communications.....................................................................	2 924 000
7	Department of Community Services...............................................................	4 765 000
8	Department of Education..................................................................................	1 616 000
9	Department of Employment and Industrial Relations.................................	6 229 000
9	Department of Finance......................................................................................	21 000 000
9	Department of Foreign Affairs.........................................................................	1 731 000
10	Department of Health........................................................................................	56 101 000
10	Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs............................................	118 000
10	Department of Industry, Technology and Commerce.................................	6 629 000
11	Department of Local Government and Administrative Services................	3 597 000
11	Department of Primary Industry......................................................................	22 652 000
12	Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet............................................	86 000
12	Department of Resources and Energy.............................................................	8 880 000
13	Department of Science.......................................................................................	1 903 000
13	Department of Social Security.........................................................................	2 900 000
13	Department of the Special Minister of State.................................................	520 000
14	Department of Sport, Recreation and Tourism.............................................	19 000
14	Department of Territories..................................................................................	21 606 000
15	Department of Trade..........................................................................................	1 651 000
15	Department of Transport...................................................................................	520 000
15	Department of the Treasury..............................................................................	1 654 000
16	Department of Veterans’ Affairs.....................................................................	5 255 000
Total........................................................................................................	183 567 000