Appropriation (1999/2000) Act 1999
Act No. 48/1999
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
| 1. | Purpose | 1 |
| 2. | Commencement | 1 |
| 3. | Application of moneys | 2 |
| 4. | Appropriation | 3 |
| 5. | Application of amounts appropriated | 3 |
| 6. | Application of amounts for future payments | 3 |
| 7. | Public Account advance | 3 |
| 8. | Advance to Treasurer | 4 |
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| SCHEDULES | 5 |
| SCHEDULE 1 | 5 |
| SCHEDULE 2 | 14 |
| SCHEDULE 3 | 15 |
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No. 48 of 1999
Appropriation (1999/2000) Act 1999†
[Assented to 16 June 1999]
The Parliament of Victoria enacts as follows:
1. Purpose
The purpose of this Act is to make provision for
the appropriation of certain sums out of the
Consolidated Fund in respect of the financial year
1999/2000.
2. Commencement
This Act comes into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
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3. Application of moneys
(1) The Treasurer may issue out of the Consolidated
Fund in respect of the financial year 1999/2000
the sum of $15 494 316 000 as set out in Schedule
1.
(2) If—
| (a) | in respect of the financial year 1999/2000 the amount payable in respect of salaries is increased as the result of any act or determination; and |
| (b) | the amounts specified in the relevant items in Schedule 1 are insufficient to provide for the payment of the increased amount payable |
in respect of salaries—
the Treasurer may issue out of the Consolidated amount payable in respect of salaries in addition to the amount issued under sub-section (1).
(3) In this section—
"salaries" includes wages or other payments in
the nature of salary, payments by way of
overtime or penalty rates or in lieu of long
service leave or for retiring gratuities;
"determination" includes any regulation or any award order or determination of a person or body authorised to determine minimum
salaries or wages under any law of the Commonwealth or of the State, or any Certified Agreement or Australian
Workplace Agreement approved in accordance with the Workplace Relations Act 1996 of the Commonwealth, or an agreement entered into by or on the behalf of the State.
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4. Appropriation
The Consolidated Fund is appropriated to the extent necessary for the purposes of section 3.
5. Application of amounts appropriated
(1) The amounts to be applied to an item specified in
Schedule 1 shall not, except as provided in this section or section 30 of the Financial Management Act 1994, exceed the amount specified for that item.
| (2) If an amount in respect of depreciation of an asset provision of outputs of a Department, the amount
shown for the item in Schedule 1 relating to that | is applied to an item in Schedule 1 for the base is increased, if the Treasurer so determines, by an amount not exceeding the amount in respect of depreciation. |
6. Application of amounts for future payments
If, during the financial year 1999/2000, an arrangement is made, or an expense or obligation is incurred, for the payment of an amount in a future financial year, a corresponding amount is applied, in respect of the financial year 1999/2000, to the appropriate item in Schedule 1 for the relevant Department.
7. Public Account advance
The sums specified in Schedule 2 which by the
authority of section 35 of the Financial
Management Act 1994 have been expended from
the Public Account to meet urgent claims are
hereby deemed to have been appropriated from
the Consolidated Fund for the recurrent services
and the works and services specified in Schedule
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2 and those sums shall be re-paid to the Public
Account.
8. Advance to Treasurer
The sums specified in Schedule 3 have been shall be deemed to have been appropriated for the purposes and services specified in Schedule 3.
expended to meet urgent claims out of the
Advance appropriated in the Appropriation
(1997/98) Act 1997 under the Department of
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SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1
DEPARTMENTAL VOTES
ESTIMATES
SUMMARY
| Department | 1998/1999 | 1999/2000 |
| Budget | Estimate |
| $'000 | $'000 |
| Education | 4 354 449 | 4 647 087 |
| Human Services | 4 091 925 | 4 326 104 |
| Infrastructure | 1 894 141 | 2 086 995 |
| Justice | 1 472 694 | 1 557 307 |
| Natural Resources and |
| Environment | 632 597 | 688 918 |
| Premier and Cabinet | 320 103 | 346 992 |
| State Development | 189 874 | 230 915 |
| Treasury and Finance | 2 273 412 | 1 609 998 |
| 15 229 195 | 15 494 316 |
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
| 1. | Provision of outputs (section 29 of the Financial Management Act 1994 applies) | 4 259 388 | 4 627 076 |
| 2. | Additions to the net asset base |
| (section 29 of the Financial |
| Management Act 1994 applies) | 95 061 | 20 011 |
| Total Appropriation | 4 354 449 | 4 647 087 |
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DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES
1. Provision of outputs (section
29 of the Financial
Management Act 1994
| applies) | 4 005 675 | 4 252 929 | |
2. Additions to the net asset base
(section 29 of the Financial
Management Act 1994
3. Cemeteries—Grants towards
maintenance and
improvement pursuant to the
| Cemeteries Act 1958 | 27 | 28 | |
| Total Appropriation | 4 091 925 | 4 326 104 |
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DEPARTMENT OF INFRASTRUCTURE
1. Provision of outputs
(section 29 of the
Financial Management
| Act 1994 applies) | 1 738 218 | 2 006 110 | |
2. Additions to the net asset
3. Payments made on behalf
| Total Appropriation | 1 894 141 | 2 086 995 |
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
1. Provision of outputs
(section 29 of the Financial
Management Act 1994
| applies) | 1 422 830 | 1 532 622 | |
2. Additions to the net asset
| Total Appropriation | 1 472 694 | 1 557 307 |
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DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND
ENVIRONMENT
| 1.1 | Provision of outputs (section 29 of |
| the Financial Management Act |
| 1994 applies) | 487 331 | 612 572 | |
| 1.2 | Additions to the net asset base |
| (section 29 of the Financial |
| Management Act 1994 applies) | 35 664 | 19 285 | |
| 1.3 | Payments made on behalf of the |
| |
| 2.1 | Provision of outputs pursuant to section 15 of the Environment Protection Act 1970 (section 29 of |
| the Financial Management Act |
| 1994 applies) | 23 397 | 24 103 | |
| 2.2 | Additions to the net asset base |
| pursuant to section 15 of the |
| Environment Protection Act 1970 |
| (section 29 of the Financial |
| Management Act 1994 applies) | 0 | 0 | |
| 3. | Contribution by the State under |
| agreements pursuant to section 25 of |
| the Murray-Darling Basin Act |
| |
| Total Appropriation | 632 597 | 688 918 |
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DEPARTMENT OF PREMIER AND CABINET
1. Provision of outputs (section
29 of the Financial
Management Act 1994
2. Additions to the net asset base
| Total Appropriation | 320 103 | 346 992 |
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE DEVELOPMENT
1. Provision of outputs (section
29 of the Financial
Management Act 1994
2. Additions to the net asset base
3. Payments made on behalf of
| Total Appropriation | 189 874 | 230 915 |
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DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY AND FINANCE
| 1. | Provision of outputs (section 29 of the Financial Management Act 1994 applies) | 307 745 | 288 063 |
| 2. | Additions to the net asset base | 881 | 12 858 |
| 3. | Payments made on behalf of the |
4. Advance to Treasurer to enable Treasurer to meet urgent claims that may arise before
Parliamentary sanction is
| obtained, which will afterwards be submitted for Parliamentary authority | 351 149 | 371 900 | |
| Total Appropriation | 2 273 412 | 1 609 998 |
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SCHEDULE 2
Payments from advances pursuant to section 35 of the Financial
Management Act 1994, 1997/98
| Department | Purpose | Amount |
$
| Education | Australian Fibres and Textiles |
| Education Centre—establishment |
| |
| Human Services | Grace McKellar Centre—capital |
| |
| Premier and | State Library of Victoria— |
| Cabinet | |
| Treasury and | Hospitals Superannuation Fund— |
| Finance | discharge of unfunded |
| superannuation liabilities | 40 000 000 | |
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SCHEDULE 3
Payments from Advance to Treasurer, 1997/98
| Department | Purpose | Amount |
$
| Education | Approved wage increases and |
| reinstatement of recreation leave |
| loading | 16 954 000 | | Budget adjustment to Vocational Education and Training sector for payroll tax | 1 956 000 | |
| Australian Fibres and Textiles |
| Education Centre—costs associated |
| with operations | 2 024 000 | |
| Commonwealth Literacy |
| Program—revised funding |
| |
| Government response to the |
| Suicide Prevention Taskforce |
| report—contribution | 2 020 000 | |
| Over-entitlement teacher |
| numbers—expenses | 10 000 000 | |
34 071 600
| Human Services | Approved wage increases | 34 604 231 |
| Government response to the |
| Suicide Prevention Taskforce |
| report—contribution | 3 322 882 |
| Judicial Remuneration Tribunal— |
| remuneration increases | 38 500 |
| State Trustees—community service |
| obligations | 620 600 |
| Rates Concessions—payments to |
| service providers | 4 000 000 |
| 42 586 213 |
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| Department | Purpose | Amount |
$
| Infrastructure | Approved wage increases | 530 120 |
| Print disabilities program— |
| expenses | 666 000 |
| VicRoads—expenses relating to |
| service extensions | 725 000 |
| Victorian Rail Track Corporation— |
| operating subsidy | 3 880 000 |
| Public Transport Corporation |
| - | budget adjustment for fuel |
| |
| - | | revised power supply rates | 700 000 | |
| - | compensation for rent foregone |
| on properties declared surplus | 667 000 | |
| - | corporatisation and privatisation |
| |
| - | provision for revised billing |
| arrangement—automatic |
| ticketing system | 3 800 000 | |
| - | employee entitlements for staff |
| transferred to private bus |
| |
| - | employee entitlements for tram |
| |
Planning Appeals Panels—
| members' remuneration | 715 192 |
22 383 312
| Justice | Approved wage increases | 10 473 493 |
Firearms buyback arrangement—
expenses offset by Commonwealth
receipts |
| - | administration | 1 500 000 |
| - compensation payments Country Fire Authority—fire | 2 563 474 |
| suppression | 2 834 194 |
| Government response to the |
| Suicide Prevention Taskforce |
| report—contribution | 190 500 |
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| Department | Purpose | Amount |
$
Correctional Enterprises Working
Account—supplementation for
| approved base funding | 4 136 000 |
| Prisoner health services—expenses | 2 880 064 |
| Judicial Remuneration Tribunal— |
| remuneration increases | 571 625 |
| Victoria Police—additional wage |
| expenses | 9 863 000 |
| Second-Hand Dealers and Pawnbrokers Licensing— establishment costs | 289 021 |
35 301 371
| Natural Resources | Environment Protection |
| and Environment | Authority—approved wage |
| |
| Management expenses relating to |
| Alpine National Park | 486 700 | |
| Fire suppression—expenses | 26 187 597 | |
| Native Title claims—research |
| |
| Eradication of exotic diseases— |
| cost-sharing arrangements | 1 109 418 | |
| Australian Inland Botanic |
| |
| Litigation expenses | 2 086 400 | |
| Ovine Johne's disease program— |
| |
| Groundwater management— |
| expenses | 430 000 | | Commercial ports—expenses | 230 000 | |
33 021 815
| Parliament | Parliamentary and Electorate |
| Support Services—approved wage |
| |
848 000
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| Department | Purpose | Amount |
$
Premier and
| Cabinet | Approved wage increases | 794 000 |
| State Library of Victoria—expenses | 2 853 000 |
| President's Cup Golf Tournament— |
| grant | 820 000 |
| Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth |
| Games bid—cash-flow adjustment | 879 000 |
| George Bass Bicentennial |
| Celebrations—grant | 5 000 |
| Victorian Cricket Association |
| headquarters relocation—grant | 750 000 |
| Native Title claims—expenses | 1 269 052 |
| State Library of Victoria— |
| employee separation expenses | 151 000 |
| Melbourne Synagogue—grant for |
| the celebration of the 50th |
| anniversary of the establishment of |
| the State of Israel | 250 000 |
7 771 052
| State | Australian Grand Prix |
| Development | Corporation—contribution to |
| operating expenses | 4 135 000 | |
| Victorian Olympic Council— |
| contribution to 2000 Games |
| |
4 635 000
| Treasury and | Hospitals Superannuation Fund— |
| Finance | discharge of unfunded |
| superannuation liabilities | 100 000 000 | |
| Victorian WorkCover Authority— |
| payment for accrued employee |
| |
104 000 000
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NOTES
†
Minister's second reading speech—
Legislative Assembly: 4 May 1999
Legislative Council: 26 May 1999
The long title for the Bill for this Act was "for the appropriation of certain
sums out of the Consolidated Fund in respect of the financial year
1999/2000 and for other purposes."