Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 2) 1998-99 (Cth)

Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 2) 1998‑99

No. 23, 1999

An Act to appropriate money out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, additional to the money appropriated by the Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act 1998‑99, for certain expenditure in relation to the Parliamentary Departments in respect of the year ending on 30 June 1999, and for related purposes

Contents
1	Short title.............................................................................................................		1
2	Commencement...................................................................................................		1
3	Definitions...........................................................................................................		2
4	Issue and application of $ 1 129 000......................................................................		2
5	Running costs .....................................................................................................		2
6	Additional appropriation in respect of increases in salaries......................................		3
7	Net annotated appropriations.................................................................................
8	Payments to Departments out of money appropriated for the purposes of certain employment subsidy schemes or programs............................................................................................		4
9	Payments to Departments out of The Comcover Reserve........................................		5
10	Certain amounts taken to be appropriated...............................................................		5
11	Consolidated Revenue Fund not to be debited after close of financial year...............		5
Schedule — Services for which money is appropriated			7

Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 2) 1998‑99

No. 23, 1999

An Act to appropriate money out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, additional to the money appropriated by the Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act 1998‑99, for certain expenditure in relation to the Parliamentary Departments in respect of the year ending on 30 June 1999, and for related purposes

[Assented to 14 May 1999]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1Short title

This Act may be cited as the Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 2) 1998‑99.

2Commencement

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

Section 3

3Definitions

In this Act:

Parliamentary Department means:

1. (a)

   the Department of the Senate; or

2. (b)

   the Department of the House of Representatives; or

3. (c)

   the Department of the Parliamentary Reporting Staff; or

4. (d)

   the Department of the Parliamentary Library; or

5. (e)

   the Joint House Department.

President means the President of the Senate.

Presiding Officer means:

1. (a)

   the President; or

2. (b)

   the Speaker.

Speaker means the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

4Issue and application of $ 1 129 000

1. (1)

   Subject to section 5, 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 1999, the sum of $ 1 129 000.

2. (2)

   The Consolidated Revenue Fund is appropriated as necessary for the purposes of subsection (1).

5Running costs

If any running costs referred to in a subdivision or Division in the Schedule include payments of remuneration or allowances to the holder of:

Section 5

1. (a)

   a public office within the meaning of the Remuneration Tribunal Act 1973; or

2. (b)

   an office specified in a Schedule to the Remuneration and Allowances Act 1990;

the Minister must issue out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund the amounts necessary to meet those payments and apply them for that purpose.

Note: The amounts required to be issued and applied by this section are included in the sum appropriated by section 4.

6Additional appropriation in respect of increases in salaries

Section 6 of the Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act 1998‑99 has effect, on and from the commencement of this Act, as if any reference in that section to the Schedule to that Act also included a reference to the Schedule to this Act.

7Net annotated appropriations

If:

1. (a)

   the description of the purpose of an appropriation set out in an item, subdivision or Division in title Schedule includes the words "net appropriation — see section 7"; and

2. (b)

   there is in force an agreement (entered into under section 31 of the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997) between".

   (i) the Minister; and

   (ii) the Presiding Officer or Presiding Officers responsible for the Parliamentary Department for which the appropriation is made;

   to the effect that payments to the Commonwealth in consideration for any service, benefit, activity, transaction or other matter specified in the agreement can be added to the

Section 7

amount appropriated to the Department under the item, subdivision or Division, to the extent and on the conditions set out in the agreement;

the item, subdivision or Division is taken to specify that those payments (whether real or notional) may be credited to the item, subdivision or Division to the extent and on the conditions set out in the agreement.

8 Payments to Departments out of money appropriated for the purposes of certain employment subsidy schemes or programs

(1) If:

1. (a)

   a payment (whether real or notional) is made to a Parliamentary Department out of money appropriated for the purposes of an approved employment subsidy scheme or program; and

2. (b)

   the payment is an approved payment; and

3. (c)

   an item, subdivision or Division in the Schedule appropriates money to that Department for running costs;

the item, subdivision or Division is taken to specify that the payment may be credited to the item, subdivision or Division.

(2) In this section:

approved employment subsidy scheme or program means an employment subsidy scheme or program determined by the Minister, under subsection 10(1) of the Appropriation Act (No. 1) 1998‑99 or subsection 10(1) of the Appropriation Act (No. 3) 1998‑99, to be an approved employment subsidy scheme or program for the purposes of that Act.

approved payment means a payment (out of money appropriated for an approved employment subsidy scheme or program) declared by the Minister, under subsection 10(2) of the Appropriation Act

Section 8

(No. 1) 1998‑99 or subsection 10(2) of the Appropriation Act (No. 3) 1998‑99, to be an approved payment for the purposes of that Act.

9 Payments to Departments out of The Comcover Reserve

Section 9 of the Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act 1998‑99 has effect, on and from the commencement of this Act, as if the reference in subsection (1) of that section to the Schedule to that Act also included a reference to the Schedule to this Act.

10 Certain amounts taken to be appropriated

If an item, subdivision or Division in the Schedule specifies that payments (whether the word "payments" or "money" or any other word is used) of a certain description may be credited to the item, subdivision or Division:

1. (a)

   amounts equal to payments (whether real or notional) of that description credited to the Consolidated Revenue Fund during the financial year ending on 30 June 1999 are taken to have been appropriated for the purpose or services referred to in that item, subdivision or Division; and

2. (b)

   the Minister is authorised to issue and apply those amounts accordingly.

11 Consolidated Revenue Fund not to be debited after close of financial year

1. (1)

   An amount appropriated under section 4 may not be debited from the Consolidated Revenue Fund after 30 June 1999.

2. (2)

   Subsection (1) does not prevent the Minister from taking action after 30 June 1999:

   (a) to correct errors or mispostings in the financial accounting records of the Commonwealth for the year ending on that day; or

Section 11

(b) to balance the Funds (within the meaning of the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997);

if the action does not result in an amount being debited from a Fund otherwise than for the purpose of being credited to another Fund.

Services for which money is appropriated

Schedule

Schedule — Services for which money is appropriated

Note: Sec section 4

Abstract
Page Reference	Departments and Services	Total
$
10	Senate............................................................................................................................	90 000
10	House of Representatives...........................................................................................	539 000
10	Parliamentary Reporting Staff..................................................................................	500 000
—	Parliamentary Library.................................................................................................	—
—	Joint House Department.............................................................................................	—
Total........................................................................................................................	1 129 000

Schedule

Schedule

SUMMARY

Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 2) 1958‑99, Heavy figures

Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act 1998‑99. Light figures

Division		Running Costs	Other Services	Total
$	$	$
101	Senate......................................................................................	90 080	—	90 000
25 950 000	415 000	26 365 000
104	House of Representatives....................................................	539 000	—	539 000
23 994 000	415 000	24 409 000
107	Parliamentary Reporting Staff............................................	341 000	159 000	500 000
30 159 000	3 126 000	33 285 000
108	Pariiamemary Library...........................................................	—	—	—
15 272 000	—	15 272 000
109	Joint House Department......................................................	—	—	—
34 010 000	2 549 000	36 559 000
Total........................................................................................	970 000	159 000	1 129 000
129 385 000	6 505 000	135 890 000

Schedule

Information with respect to previous appropriation and expenditure
Additional appropriation for 1998‑99	Appropriation made by Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act 1998‑99	Expenditure for 1997‑98
$	$	$
Division 101.—SENATE
1.— Running Costs (net appropriation — see section 7) (see also section 8).............................................................................	90 000	25 950 000	23 665 242
Total: Senate......................................................................	90 000
Division 104.— HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
1.— Running Costs (net appropriation — see section 7) (see also section 8).............................................................................	539 000	23 994 000	23 989 370
Total: House of Representatives...................................	539 000
Division 107.— PARLIAMENTARY REPORTING STAFF
1.— Running Costs (net appropriation — see section 7) (see also section 8).............................................................................	341 000	30 159 000	29 733 582
2.— Capital expenditure.................................................................	159 000	3 126 000	3 186 999
Total: Parliamentary Reporting Staff..............................	500 000

[Minister's second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 3 December 1998

Senate on 25 March 1999]

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