Supply (Works and Services) Act (No. 1) 1955-56 (Cth)

SUPPLY (WORKS AND SERVICES) (No. 1) 1955–56.

No. 22 of 1955.

An Act to grant and apply a sum out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the service of the year ending the thirtieth day of June, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-six, for the purposes of Additions, New Works and other Services involving Capital Expenditure.

[Assented to 15th June, 1955.]

BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, for the purpose of appropriating the grant originated in the House of Representatives, as follows:—

Short title.

1. This Act may be cited as the Supply (Works and Services) Act (No. 1) 1955–56.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Issue and application of £32,687,000.

3. There shall and may be issued and applied for or towards making good the supply hereby granted to Her Majesty for the service of the year ending the thirtieth day of June, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-six, the sum of Thirty-two million six hundred and eighty-seven thousand pounds out of the Consolidated Revenue

 

Fund for the purposes and services expressed in the Schedule to this Act, and the Treasurer is hereby authorized and empowered to issue and apply the moneys authorized to be issued and applied.

Sum available for the purposes set forth in Schedule.

4. The sum specified in the last preceding section shall be available to satisfy the warrants under the hand of the Governor-General in respect of any purposes and services expressed in the Schedule to this Act.

Limit of period of expenditure.

5. No money shall be expended under the authority of this Act after the thirtieth day of June, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-six.

 

THE SCHEDULE. Section 3.

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ABSTRACT.

—	Total.
Part 1.—Departments and Services—other than Business Undertakings and Territories of the Commonwealth.	£
PARLIAMENT..................................................................................................	8,000
PRIME MINISTER’S DEPARTMENT................................................................	326,000
DEPARTMENT OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS.......................................................	39,000
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY...............................................................	54,000
ATTORNEY-GENERAL’S DEPARTMENT.......................................................	53,000
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR..................................................................	471,000
DEPARTMENT OF WORKS..............................................................................	243,000
DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AVIATION..............................................................	1,883,000
DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND CUSTOMS...................................................	52,000
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH............................................................................	718,000
DEPARTMENT OF REPATRIATION................................................................	136,000
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND AGRICULTURE..................................	14,000
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES...........................................................	10,050,000
DEPARTMENT OF SHIPPING AND TRANSPORT...........................................	1,694,000
DEPARTMENT OF TERRITORIES...................................................................	2,000
DEPARTMENT OF IMMIGRATION.................................................................	158,000
DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR AND NATIONAL SERVICE..............................	13,000
DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT............................................	4,764,000
COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANIZATION
	124,000
AUSTRALIAN ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION...........................................	95,000
Total Part 1..................................................	20,897,000
Part 2.—Business Undertakings.
COMMONWEALTH RAILWAYS.....................................................................	200,000
POSTMASTER-GENERAL’S DEPARTMENT...................................................	9,225,000
BROADCASTING SERVICES...........................................................................	105,000
Total Part 2.....................................................	9,530,000
Part 3.—Territories of the Commonwealth.
NORTHERN TERRITORY................................................................................	821,000
AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY............................................................	1,432,000
TERRITORY OF PAPUA AND NEW GUINEA.................................................	7,000
Total Part 3.....................................................	2,260,000
Total..............................................................	32,687,000