Appropriation (Budget Variations) Act 2015 (NSW)

An Act to appropriate amounts out of the Consolidated Fund for the year 2013–14 for the purpose of giving effect to certain Budget variations required by the exigencies of Government.

Part 1Preliminary1Name of Act

This Act is the Appropriation (Budget Variations) Act 2015.

2Commencement

This Act commences on the date of assent to this Act.

3Interpretation

In this Act, a reference to the year 2013–14 is a reference to the year from 1 July 2013 to 30 June 2014.

Part 2Budget variations 2013–144Adjustment of “Advance to the Treasurer”, 2013–14

The sum of $2,190,000 is hereby appropriated out of the Consolidated Fund in adjustment of the vote “Advance to the Treasurer”, 2013–14, for supplementary charges made during the year 2013–14 in the amount specified in Column 1 of Schedule 1 for capital works and services specified opposite that amount in Schedule 1. Accordingly, the amount so voted is reduced by the amount appropriated by this section.

5Payments made during 2013–14 under section 22 of Public Finance and Audit Act 1983(1)

The sum of $422,000,000, being the total of the sums specified in Column 2 of Schedule 1, is hereby appropriated out of the Consolidated Fund to provide for the payments for recurrent services specified opposite those sums in Schedule 1, made in anticipation of appropriation by Parliament under section 22 (1) of the Public Finance and Audit Act 1983 required for the exigencies of Government during the year 2013–14.

(2)

Section 22 (2) of the Public Finance and Audit Act 1983 does not apply to the sums to which this section applies.

Part 3General6Additional appropriations

The sums appropriated by this Act are in addition to any other sums that may have been appropriated, subject to adjustment of the vote “Advance to the Treasurer”, 2013–14, under section 4.

7Operation of Act in relation to budget variations(1)

This Act:

• (a)

  is to be construed as if it formed part of the annual Appropriation Act or Acts for the financial year relevant to the appropriation concerned, and

• (b)

  is to have effect as if it had commenced at the start of the financial year relevant to the appropriation, and

• (c)

  is an Appropriation Act for the purposes of section 21A of the Public Finance and Audit Act 1983.

(2)

The issue and payment before the date of assent to this Act out of the Consolidated Fund of the whole or any part of the sums appropriated by this Act is validated. This subsection applies despite this Act being assented to after the year 2013–14.

8Validation of expenditure

To the extent (if any) to which it may be necessary to do so, the expenditure of any sum to which this Act applies before the date of assent to this Act:

• (a)

  is taken to have been validly approved at the time it was approved, or was purported to have been approved, and

• (b)

  is taken to have been validly made at the time it was made, or purported to have been made,

and is taken thereafter to be, and to have been at all relevant times, validly approved and made.

Schedule 1Payments during 2013–14

(Sections 4 and 5)

Column 1	Column 2
Treasurer’s Advance	s 22 PF&A Act
Amount $,000	Amount $,000
TREASURER
RECURRENT SERVICES
Crown Finance Entity
Natural disaster expenditure	122,000
Compensation payment to terminate the obligation to develop the Cobbora coal mine	300,000
Total Crown Finance Entity	422,000
TOTAL—RECURRENT SERVICES	422,000
CAPITAL WORKS AND SERVICES
Treasury
Seed funding for preliminary work in relation to the financial management transformation program	2,190
Total Treasury	2,190
TOTAL—CAPITAL WORKS AND SERVICES	2,190
TOTAL—TREASURER	2,190	422,000
TREASURER’S ADVANCE FOR CAPITAL WORKS AND SERVICES	2,190
TOTAL—TREASURER’S ADVANCE	2,190
SECTION 22 FOR RECURRENT SERVICES	422,000
TOTAL—SECTION 22	422,000