Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 2) 1991-92 (Cth)

Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 2) 1991-92

No. 38 of 1992

An Act to appropriate a sum out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, additional to the sums appropriated by the Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act 1991-92, for certain expenditure in relation to the Parliamentary Departments in respect of the year ending on 30 June 1992, and for related purposes

[Assented to 5 June 1992]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 2) 1991-92.

Commencement

2. This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Issue and application of $ 5 247 000

3. The Minister for Finance may issue out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund and apply for the services specified in the Schedule, in respect of the year ending on 30 June 1992, the sum of $ 5 247 000.

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Appropriation of $5 247 000

4. The sum authorised by this Act to be issued out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund is appropriated, and is taken to have been appropriated as from 1 July 1991, for the services specified in the Schedule in respect of the year that commenced on that day.

Additional appropriation in respect of increases in salaries

5. Section 5 of the Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act 1991-92 has effect, on and from the commencement of this Act as if any reference in that section to Schedule 2 to that Act included a reference to the Schedule to this Act .

Net annotated appropriations

6.(1) Where the description of the purpose of an appropriation set out in an item, subdivision or Division of the Schedule concludes with the words "(net appropriation — see section 6)", that Schedule is taken, for the purposes of this Act and the Audit Act 1901, to provide that all money received:

1. (a)

   from the sale, leasing or hiring out of, or other dealing with, goods or personal property; or

2. (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;

may be credited to mat item, subdivision or Division, to such extent as is, and on such conditions as are, 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:

1. (a)

   a sale, or other transaction, referred to in paragraph (1)(a) or (b); or

2. (b)

   the provision of services;

mat amount is taken, for the purposes of subsection (1), 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 the amount.

(3) The Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act 1991-92 has effect, and is taken at all times to have had effect, as if there were added at the of section 7 the following subsection:

" (2) If the Consolidated Revenue Fund is credited with an amount purported to have been paid in respect of:

1. (a)

   a sale, or other transaction, referred to in paragraph (1)(a) or (b); or

2. (b)

   the provision of services;

that amount is taken, for the purposes of subsection (1), 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.".

SCHEDULE Sections 3 and 4

ABSTRACT

Page Reference	Departments and Services	Total
$
6	Senate.................................................................................	398 000
6	House of Representatives.....................................................	26 000
6	Parliamentary Reporting Staff..............................................	4 679 000
6	Parliamentary Library..........................................................	144 000
Joint House Department.......................................................	—
Total.................................................................................	5 247 000

SUMMARY

Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No.2) 1991-92, Heavy figures

Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act 1991-92, Light figures *

Division		Operating Expenses	Capital Expenditure	Total
$	$	$
101	Senate.............................................................	398 000	—	398 000
19 230 000	—	19 230 000
103	House of Representatives.................................	26 000	—	26 000
21 092 000	—	21 092 000
105	Parliamentary Reporting Staff..........................	4 679 000	—	4 679 000
27 082 000	—	27 082 000
106	Parliamentary Library......................................	144 000	—	144 000
10 892 000	—	10 892 000
107	Joint House Department...................................	—	—	—
36 031 000	4 027 000	40 058 000
Total..............................................................	5 247 000	—	5 247 000
114 327 000	4 027 000	118 354 000

* Excludes appropriation Division 102 — Advance to the President of the Senate, $300 000, Division 104 — Advance to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, $300 000 and Division 108 — Joint Advance to the President and the Speaker, $1 000 000 in Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act 1991-92.

Information with respect to previous appropriation and expenditure
Additional appropriation for 1991-92	Appropriation made by Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act 1991-92	Expenditure for 1990-91
$	$	$
Division 101.— SENATE
1. Operating expenses (net appropriation — see section 6)	398 000	18 901 000	18 103 078
Total: Senate....................................................	398 000	18 901 000	18 103 078
Division 103.— HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
1. Operating expenses (net appropriation — see section 6)	26 000	20 767 000	19 742 687
Total: House of Representatives.......................	26 000	20 767 000	19 742 687
Division 105.— PARLIAMENTARY REPORTING STAFF
1. Operating expenses (net appropriation — see section 6)	4 679 000	27 082 000	29 711 635
Total: Parliamentary Reporting Staff...............	4 679 000	27 082 000	29 711 635
Division 106.— PARLIAMENTARY LIBRARY
1. Operating expenses (net appropriation — see section 6)	144 000	10 892 000	10 633 161
Total: Parliamentary Library....................................	144 000	10 892 000	10 633 161

[Minister's second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 26 February 1992

Senate on 31 March 1992]

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