Financial Management and Accountability Determination 2009/27 – National Disability Special Account Variation 2009 (Cth)

Financial Management and Accountability Determination 2009/27 — National Disability Special Account Variation 2009

I, LINDSAY TANNER, Minister for Finance and Deregulation, make this Determination under subsection 20 (2) of the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997.

Dated September 7^th 2009

Lindsay Tanner

Minister for Finance and Deregulation

1              Name of Determination

This Determination is the Financial Management and Accountability Determination 2009/27 – National Disability Special Account Variation 2009.

2              Commencement

This Determination commences at the time subsection 22 (4) of the FMA Act is complied with.

Note       This Determination takes effect in accordance with section 22 of the FMA Act. The Parliament must consider the Determination before it can take effect, and either House may pass a resolution disallowing the Determination. If neither House passes such a resolution, the Determination takes effect on the day immediately after the last day upon which such a resolution could have been passed.

3              Variation

Schedule 1 varies the Determination entitled Financial Management and Accountability Determination 2006/30 – Commonwealth, State, Territory Disability Agreement Special Account Establishment 2006, made on 26 July 2006, which established the Commonwealth, State, Territory Disability Agreement Special Account.

4              Definitions

In this Determination:

FMA Act means the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997.

Schedule 1        Variation

(section 3)

[1]           Title

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Financial Management and Accountability Determination 2006/30 – Commonwealth, State, Territory Agreement Special Account Establishment 2006

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Financial Management and Accountability Determination 2006/30 –National Disability Special Account Establishment 2006

[2]           Clause 1

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This Determination is the Financial Management and Accountability Determination 2006/30 – Commonwealth, State, Territory Agreement Special Account Establishment 2006

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This Determination is the Financial Management and Accountability Determination 2006/30 –National Disability Special Account Establishment 2006

[3]           Clause 3

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For subsection 20 (1) of the FMA Act, a Special Account is established with the name Commonwealth, State, Territory Agreement Special Account.

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For subsection 20 (1) of the FMA Act, a Special Account is established with the name National Disability Special Account.

[4]           Clause 4

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The following amounts may be credited to the Commonwealth, State, Territory Agreement Special Account:

(a)     amounts received in the course of the performance of functions that relate to the purposes of the Commonwealth, State, Territory Agreement Special Account;

(b)    amounts received from any person for the purposes of the Commonwealth, State, Territory Agreement Special Account;

(c)    amounts debited from the Commonwealth/State Disability Agreement Account for the purpose of crediting the Commonwealth, State, Territory Agreement Special Account.

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The following amounts may be credited to the National Disability Special Account:

(a)     amounts received in the course of the performance of functions that relate to the purposes of the National Disability Special Account; and

(b)    amounts received from any person for the purposes of the National Disability Special Account.

[5]           Clause 5

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(1)   The purposes of the Commonwealth, State, Territory Agreement Special Account, in relation to which amounts may be debited from the Special Account, are:

(a)conducting projects for research into disability issues of national significance as part of the implementation of the Commonwealth State Territory Disability Agreement; and

(b)activities that are incidental to the purpose mentioned in paragraph (a); and

(c)to repay to an original payer amounts credited to the Special Account and residual after any necessary payments made for a purpose mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b); and

(d)to reduce the balance of the Special Account (and, therefore, the available appropriation for the Account) without making a real or notional payment; and

(e)to repay amounts where an Act or other law requires or permits the repayment of an amount received.

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(1)   The purposes of the National Disability Special Account, in relation to which amounts may be debited from the Special Account, are:

(a)conducting projects for research into disability issues of national significance as part of Commonwealth, State and Territory agreements;

(b)activities that are incidental to the purpose mentioned in paragraph (a);

(c)to repay to an original payer amounts credited to the Special Account and residual after any necessary payments made for a purpose mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b);

(d)to reduce the balance of the Special Account (and, therefore, the available appropriation for the Account) without making a real or notional payment; and

(e)to repay amounts where an Act or other law requires or permits the repayment of an amount received.