Finance Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1987 No. 1911

 

Finance Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Audit Act 1901.

Dated 13 September 1987.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

Peter Walsh

Minister of State for Finance

 

Application of Regulations

1. Regulation 5a of the Finance Regulations is amended by adding at the end the following subregulations:

“(4) Parts II, IIa and III of these Regulations do not apply during the relevant period in relation to:

(a) revenues, moneys or supplies of an establishment of the Department of Defence in South Australia;

(b) revenues, moneys or supplies of the naval establishment in Victoria known as HMAS Cerberus; or

(c) the operations of the administration of, or persons in the service of, the Commonwealth, in relation to the receipt, expenditure or control of any such revenues, moneys or supplies.

 

(S.R. 206/87)—Cat. No.  16/14.8.1987

 

“(5) In subregulation (4), ‘relevant period’ means the period commencing on 1 October 1987 and ending on the expiration of:

(a) if paragraph (b) does not apply—30 September 1989; or

(b) if the Minister has, by notice published in the Gazette, fixed a date earlier than 30 September 1989 as the expiry date in relation to the period—that earlier date.”.

2. Regulation 127a of the Finance Regulations is amended by inserting after subregulation (4) the following subregulation:

“(4a) Nothing in subregulation 5a (4) shall be construed as affecting the power of the Minister, the Secretary of the Department of Finance or the Secretary of the Department of Defence under this regulation to give directions for or in relation to any matter, being a matter referred to in paragraph 71 (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f) or (g) of the Act, in respect of which a provision of Part II, IIa or III of these Regulations would, but for that subregulation, have applied.”.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 18 September 1987.

2. Statutory Rules 1942 No. 523 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1987 No. 168 and see also Statutory Rules 1987 No. 168.

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