Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 2) 1993-94 (Cth)

Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 2) 1993-94

No. 53 of 1994

An Act to appropriate a sum out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, additional to the sums appropriated by the Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act 1993-94, for certain expenditure in relation to the Parliamentary Departments in respect of the year ending on 30 June 1994, and for related purposes

[Assented to 7 April 1994]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 2) 1993-94.

Commencement

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

Issue and application of $ 2 013 000

3. The Minister 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 1994, the sum of $ 2 013 000.

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Appropriation of $2 013 000

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 1993, 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 1993-94 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) If the description of the purpose of an appropriation set out in an item, subdivision or Division in the Schedule includes 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 any 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; or

1. (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 such extent as is, and on such conditions as are, agreed between the Minister 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; or

3. (c)

   any benefit referred to in paragraph (1)(d);

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 or as payment for that benefit (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...................................................................................................................................	396 000
6	House of Representatives.................................................................................................	117 000
6	Parliamentary Reporting Staff.........................................................................................	602 000
6	Parliamentary Library.......................................................................................................	773 000
6	Joint House Department...................................................................................................	125 000
Total.....................................................................................................................................	2 013 000

SUMMARY

Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No.2) 1993-94, Heavy figures

Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act 1993-94, Light figures *

Division		Running Costs	Other Services	Total
$	$	$
101	Senate...........................................................................................	396 000	—	396 000
22 030 000	329 000	22 359 000
103	House of Representatives.........................................................	117 000	—	117 000
23 415 000	365 000	23 780 000
105	Parliamentary Reporting Staff.................................................	602 000	—	602 000
28 734 000	—	28 734 000
106	Parliamentary Library...............................................................	773 000	—	773 000
12 814 000	72 000	12 886 000
107	Joint House Department...........................................................	125 000	—	125 000
34 355 000	2 686 000	37 041 000
Total.............................................................................................	2 013 000	—	2 013 000
121 348 000	3 452 000	124 800 000

* Does not include appropriation under Division 102 — Advance to the President of the Senate, $300 000, under Division 104 — Advance to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, $300 000, under Division 108 — Joint Advance to the President and the Speaker, $1 000 000 and under Division 109 — Provision for Running Costs Borrowings, $200 000 in Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act 1993-94.

SCHEDULE — continued

Information with respect to previous appropriation and expenditure
Additional appropriation for 1993-94	Appropriation made by Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act 1993-94	Expenditure for 1992-93
$	$	$
Division 101.— SENATE
1.— Running Costs (net appropriation — see section 6)......	396 000	22 030 000	19 289 327
Total: Senate...........................................................................	396 000
Division 103.— HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
1.— Running Costs (net appropriation — see section 6)......	117 000	23 415 000	20 348 734
Total: House of Representatives........................................	117 000
Division 105.— PARLIAMENTARY REPORTING STAFF
1.— Running Costs (net appropriation — see section 6)......	602 000	28 734 000	28 677 612
Total: Parliamentary Reporting Staff.............................	602 000
Division 106.— PARLIAMENTARY LIBRARY
1.— Running Costs (net appropriation — see section 6)......	773 000	12 814 000	11 269 229
Total: Parliamentary Library...........................................	773 000
Division 107.— JOINT HOUSE DEPARTMENT
1.— Running Costs (net appropriation — see section 6)......	125 000	34 355 000	34 596 003
Total: Joint House Department.........................................	125 000

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 8 February 1994

Senate on 2 March 1994]

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