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Appropriation (1998/99) Act 1998

Act No. 36/1998

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

Section Page

1.	Purpose	1
2.	Commencement	1
3.	Application of moneys	2
4.	Liabilities as at commencement of accrual output budgeting	3
5.	Appropriation	3
6.	Application of amounts appropriated	3
7.	Application of amounts for future payments	4
8.	Public Account advance	4
9.	Advance to Treasurer	4

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SCHEDULES	5
SCHEDULE 1	5
SCHEDULE 2	15
SCHEDULE 3	16

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Victoria

No. 36 of 1998

Appropriation (1998/99) Act 1998†

[Assented to 20 May 1998]

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

1998/99.

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 1998/99 the sum of $15 229 195 000 as set out in Part 1 of

Schedule 1.

(2) If—

(a)	in respect of the financial year 1998/99 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 Part 1 of 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.  Liabilities as at commencement of accrual output budgeting

(1) The Treasurer may issue out of the Consolidated

Fund in discharge of arrangements made, or expenses or obligations incurred, in a financial year preceding 1998/99 the sum of $1 915 000 000 as set out in Part 2 of Schedule 1.

(2) If the aggregate of the amounts shown in the

financial statements of Departments for 1997/98 under Part 7 of the Financial Management Act 1994 for amounts payable, in 1998/99 or a later financial year, in discharge of arrangements made
or expenses or obligations incurred in a financial
year preceding 1998/99 exceeds the amount
specified in sub-section (1), the Treasurer may
issue out of the Consolidated Fund an amount, not
exceeding the amount of the excess, in addition to

the amount issued under sub-section (1).

(3) The amount shown in an item in Part 2 of

Schedule 1 is deemed, for the purposes of section 33(1) of the Financial Management Act 1994, to have been applied in the financial year 1998/99

for the purpose of an item in Schedule 1.

5. Appropriation

The Consolidated Fund is appropriated to the extent necessary for the purposes of sections 3 and 4.

6. Application of amounts appropriated

(1) The amounts to be applied to an item specified in Part 1 of 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 is applied to an item in Part 1 of Schedule 1 for

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the provision of outputs of a Department, the
amount shown for the item in Part 1 of Schedule 1
relating to that Department in respect of additions
to the net asset base is increased, if the Treasurer
so determines, by an amount not exceeding the
amount in respect of depreciation.

7. Application of amounts for future payments If, during the financial year 1998/99, 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 1998/99,
to the appropriate item in Part 1 of Schedule 1 for

the relevant Department.

8. 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
2 and those sums shall be re-paid to the Public

Account.

9. Advance to Treasurer

The sums specified in Schedule 3 have been expended to meet urgent claims out of the Advance appropriated in the Appropriation (1996/97, No. 1) Act 1996 under the Department of Treasury and Finance and the payments so made shall be deemed to have been appropriated for the purposes and services specified in Schedule 3.

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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1

PART 1

DEPARTMENTAL VOTES

ESTIMATES FOR 1998/99

SUMMARY

Department Total

$

Education	4 354 449 000
Human Services	4 091 925 000
Infrastructure	1 894 141 000
Justice	1 472 694 000
Natural Resources and	632 597 000
Environment
Premier and Cabinet	320 103 000
State Development	189 874 000
Treasury and Finance	2 273 412 000
15 229 195 000

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

1998/99

Item Estimate

$

1.	Provision of outputs (section 29 of the	4 259 388 000
Financial Management Act 1994 applies)
2.	Additions to the net asset base	95 061 000

Total Appropriation 4 354 449 000

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DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES

1998/99

Item Estimate

$

1.	Provision of outputs (section 29 of the	4 005 675 000
Financial Management Act 1994 applies)
2.	Additions to the net asset base	86 223 000
3.	Cemeteries—Grants towards	27 000
maintenance and improvement pursuant to the Cemeteries Act 1958

Total Appropriation 4 091 925 000

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DEPARTMENT OF INFRASTRUCTURE

1998/99

Item Estimate

$

1.	Provision of outputs (section 29 of the	1 738 218 000
Financial Management Act 1994 applies)
2.	Additions to the net asset base	154 602 000
3.	Payments made on behalf of the State	1 321 000

Total Appropriation 1 894 141 000

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

1998/99

Item Estimate

$

1.	Provision of outputs (section 29 of the	1 422 830 000
Financial Management Act 1994 applies)
2.	Additions to the net asset base	49 864 000

Total Appropriation 1 472 694 000

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DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND

ENVIRONMENT

1998/99

Item Estimate

$

1.1	Provision of outputs (section 29 of the	487 331 000
Financial Management Act 1994 applies)
1.2	Additions to the net asset base	35 664 000
1.3	Payments made on behalf of the State	70 385 000
2.1	Provision of outputs pursuant to section	23 397 000
15 of the Environment Protection Act 1970 (section 29 of the Financial Management Act 1994 applies)
2.2	Additions to the net asset base pursuant	0
to section 15 of the Environment
Protection Act 1970
3.	Contribution by the State under	15 820 000
agreements pursuant to section 25 of the
Murray-Darling Basin Act 1993

Total Appropriation 632 597 000

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DEPARTMENT OF PREMIER AND CABINET

1998/99

Item Estimate

$

1.	Provision of outputs (section 29 of the	207 942 000
Financial Management Act 1994 applies)
2.	Additions to the net asset base	112 161 000

Total Appropriation 320 103 000

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE DEVELOPMENT

1998/99

Item Estimate

$

1.	Provision of outputs (section 29 of the	180 034 000
Financial Management Act 1994 applies)
2.	Additions to the net asset base	0
3.	Payments made on behalf of the State	9 840 000

Total Appropriation 189 874 000

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DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY AND FINANCE

1998/99

Item Estimate

$

1	Provision of outputs (section 29 of the	307 745 000
Financial Management Act 1994 applies)
2	Additions to the net asset base	881 000
3	Payments made on behalf of the State	1 613 637 000
4	Advance to Treasurer to enable	351 149 000
Treasurer to meet urgent claims that may arise before Parliamentary sanction is obtained, which will afterwards be submitted for Parliamentary authority

Total Appropriation 2 273 412 000

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PART 2

LIABILITIES AS AT COMMENCEMENT OF ACCRUAL

OUTPUT BUDGETING

1998/99

Item Estimate

$

1 Liabilities accrued as at 1 July 1998 1 915 000 000

Total Appropriation 1 915 000 000

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SCHEDULE 2

Payments from advances pursuant to section 35 of the Financial

Management Act 1994, 1996/97

Department Purpose Amount

$

Education	Australian Fibres and Textiles
Education Centre—establishment
costs 3 324 291
Human Services	Future for Young Adults—
construct and modify buildings for
day services 555 666
Refurbishment of temporary
accommodation for early transfer of
Aradale staff to Melbourne 77 040

632 706

Infrastructure	Public Transport Corporation—
Jolimont Railyards rationalisation 9 000 000
Upgrade cruise ship passenger
facilities at Station Pier 1 700 000
Public Transport Corporation—
facilities relocation from Docklands
precinct 540 000
Recycling of proceeds from land
sales—Lynch's Bridge 245 000
Exhibition Street extension project 5 049 000
Docklands—additional
administration costs 4 000 000

20 534 000

Natural Resources	Murray Darling Basin—capital
and Environment	contribution 2 160 000
State	Australian Grand Prix Corporation
Development	—works 5 322 000

Total 31 972 997

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SCHEDULE 3

Payments from Advance to Treasurer, 1996/97

Department Purpose Amount

$

Education	Approved wage increases and
reinstatement of recreation leave
loading 50 344 000
Supplementation relating to the
Education Maintenance Allowance 6 000 000

56 344 000

Human Services	Approved wage increases and
reinstatement of recreation leave
loading 17 347 000
Anzac Day Proceeds Fund—
contribution 504 779
Additional funding for hospitals to offset reductions in Commonwealth receipts and gambling revenues 9 200 000
Additional funding to cover the transfer of the 'Future for Young Adults' program from the
Department of Education 11 540 000

38 591 779

Infrastructure	Approved wage increases and
reinstatement of recreation leave
loading 1 469 500
Werribee Food Research Institute—
construction liabilities 428 306
Latrobe regional planning study—
contribution 25 000
Office of Major Projects—land tax
liability 1 831 067

3 753 873

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Department Purpose Amount

$

Justice	Approved wage increases and
reinstatement of recreation leave
loading 30 670 711
Victims Referral and Assistance
Service—seed funding 1 094 541
Reinstatement of the balance of the
former Victorian Prison Industry Commission trust account in the Public Correctional Enterprise's trust account 425 235
Settlement of claims following the
abolition of the Accident
Compensation Tribunal 1 500 000

33 690 487

Natural Resources

Approved wage increases and

and Environment

reinstatement of recreation leave

loading 11 897 874

EPA—approved wage increases and reinstatement of recreation leave loading 428 700

Hume Dam—compensation costs

relating to emergency water

releases	1 500 000
Additional legal costs	3 764 710

Eradication of Ovine Johne's

Disease program costs 1 812 925

Anthrax vaccination program costs 688 000

Transfer of commercial ports land

—administration costs 51 000

Native Title claims—research

expenses	436 300
Associated Ports insurance—costs	180 600

Fire suppression—operating costs 1 911 000

22 671 109

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Department Purpose Amount

$

Parliament	Legislative Council—approved
wage increases and reinstatement of
recreation leave loading 62 500
Legislative Assembly—approved
wage increases and reinstatement of
recreation leave loading 115 900
Parliamentary Library—approved
wage increases and reinstatement of
recreation leave loading 31 400
Parliamentary Debates—approved
wage increases and reinstatement of
recreation leave loading 54 500
Parliamentary Support Services—
approved wage increases and
reinstatement of recreation leave
loading 58 800
Electorate Support Services— approved wage increases and reinstatement of recreation leave
loading 3 900

327 000

Premier and	Approved wage increases and
Cabinet	reinstatement of recreation leave
loading 2 908 000
National Memorial Theatre—grant 360 000
Bid for the 2006 Commonwealth
Games—expenses 1 229 000
Melbourne Major Events Company
—contribution to operating
expenses 371 000
Native Title claims—legal expenses

1 766 639
6 634 639

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Department Purpose Amount

$

State	Australian Grand Prix Corporation
Development	—contribution to operating
expenses 2 715 000
Treasury and	Approved wage increases and
Finance	reinstatement of recreation leave
loading 1 134 000

Total 165 861 887

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Act No. 36/1998 Notes

NOTES

†

Minister's second reading speech—

Legislative Assembly: 21 April 1998

Legislative Council: 12 May 1998

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
1998/99 and for other purposes."