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1999 THE
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY FOR THE AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
(As presented)
(Treasurer)
Appropriation Bill
1999-2000
A
BILL
FOR
An Act to appropriate
money for the purposes of the Territory in respect of the financial year commencing on 1
July 1999 and for related purposes
The Legislative
Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:
1. Short
title
This Act may be cited as the Appropriation
Act 1999-2000.
2.
Commencement
This Act
commences on the day on which it is notified in the Gazette.
3. Purposes
This Act is made for the purposes
of—
(a) sections 57 and 58 of the Australian
Capital Territory (Self-Government) Act 1988 of the Commonwealth; and
(b) sections 6 and 8 of the Financial Management Act 1996.
4. Interpretation
(1) A word or expression in this
Act has the same meaning as in the Financial Management Act 1996.
(2) In this Act—
"financial year" means the
year commencing on 1 July 1999.
5. Appropriations of $1,836,266,000
(1) Where a department is mentioned
in column 1 in a Part of Schedule 1—
(a) the amount mentioned in column
3 in that Part is appropriated to the department for the net cost of providing outputs in
the financial year for the appropriation unit mentioned in column 2 in the Part;
(b) the amount mentioned in column 4 in that Part is appropriated to the department for
capital injection in the financial year for the appropriation unit mentioned in column 2
of the Part; and
(c) the amount mentioned in column 5 in that Part is appropriated to the department for
payments to be made on behalf of the Territory in the financial year for the appropriation
unit mentioned in column 2 of the Part.
(2) The amount mentioned in column 6 in
Part 16 of Schedule 1 is appropriated to the Treasurer’s advance for the purposes of
section 18 of the Financial Management Act 1996.
6. Appropriation units and output
classes
(1) A group of
outputs mentioned in column 2 of Schedule 2 is identified as a class of outputs for the
purposes of the Financial Management Act 1996.
(2) An appropriation unit mentioned in column 1 of Schedule 2 consists of the class
of outputs, or the group of output classes, mentioned in column 2 of that Schedule
opposite the appropriation unit.
7. Commonwealth specific purpose
payments
Section 17 of the Financial
Management Act 1996 applies to all appropriations under subsection 5 (1) of this Act
except the appropriations to the following departments:
(a) Legislative
Assembly Secretariat;
(b) Auditor-General;
(c) ACT Executive;
(d) Central Financing Unit;
(e) Superannuation and Insurance Provision Unit;
(f) InTACT;
(g) ACTION;
(h) ACT Forests.
8. Payments to the Commonwealth
Section 17A of the Financial
Management Act 1996 applies to the appropriation mentioned in column 5 in Part 14 of
Schedule 1.
9. Amendment of the Financial
Management Act
After section 17 of the
Financial Management Act 1996 the following section is inserted:
"17A. Variations of
appropriations for certain payments to the Commonwealth
"(1) This section
applies to an appropriation that is declared by the Act by which it is made to be an
appropriation to which the section applies.
"(2) Where—
(a) an appropriation to
which this section applies is made wholly or partially for a payment required to be made
to the Commonwealth for the provision of a service;
(b) an estimate of the amount of the payment is contained in the budget papers laid before
the Legislative Assembly in conjunction with the Bill for the Act by which the
appropriation is made; and
(c) the amount of the payment exceeds the amount of the estimate;
the Treasurer may, by
instrument, direct that the appropriation be increased by an amount not exceeding the
difference between the amount of the estimate and the amount of the payment.
"(3) Where the Treasurer gives a direction under subsection (2), he or she shall
cause a copy of the direction to be laid before the Legislative Assembly within 3 sitting
days after it is given.
"(4) This section ceases to have effect on the expiration of 30 June 2000.".
SCHEDULE 1
APPROPRIATIONS
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
Department |
Appropriation unit |
Net cost of outputs
$ |
Capital injection
$ |
Payments on behalf of Territory
$ |
Total
$ |
Part 1
Legislative
Assembly Secretariat |
Legislative Assembly Secretariat |
4,044,000 |
|
2,994,000 |
7,038,000 |
Part 2
Auditor-General |
Auditor-General |
904,000 |
|
|
904,000 |
Part 3
Chief
Minister’s Department |
Chief Minister’s |
67,077,000 |
8,348,000
|
18,422,000
|
93,847,000
|
Part 4
ACT Executive |
ACT Executive |
|
|
2,922,000 |
2,922,000 |
Part 5
Office of Asset Management |
Government Asset Management |
|
13,426,000
|
|
13,426,000
|
Part 6
Central Financing
Unit |
Central Financing Unit |
|
2,427,000
|
20,017,000
|
22,444,000
|
Part 7
Superannu-ation and Insurance
Provision Unit |
Superannu-ation
and Insurance Provision Unit |
|
300,000,000 |
19,246,000
|
319,246,000
|
Part 8
Department of Health and Community
Care |
Health and
Community Care |
318,691,000 |
32,811,000 |
9,948,000 |
361,450,000 |
Part 9
Department of Urban Services |
Urban Services |
223,157,000 |
76,273,000
|
1,022,000
|
300,452,000
|
Part 10
InTACT |
The InTACT
Group |
|
17,640,000 |
|
17,640,000 |
Part 11
ACT Housing |
ACT Housing |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Part 12
ACTION |
ACTION |
|
3,238,000 |
|
3,238,000 |
Part 13
ACT Forests |
ACT Forests |
|
340,000 |
|
340,000 |
| Part 14 Department of Justice and Community Safety |
Justice and
Community Safety |
81,690,000
|
5,369,000
|
64,590,000
|
151,649,000
|
| Part 15 Department of Education and Community Services |
Education and
Community Services |
392,595,000
|
27,254,000
|
103,721,000
|
523,570,000
|
Total appropriated to departments |
|
1,088,158,000
|
487,126,000
|
242,882,000
|
1,818,166,000
|
Part 16
Treasurer’s
advance |
|
|
|
|
18,100,000
|
Total appropriations |
|
1,088,158,000
|
487,126,000
|
242,882,000
|
1,836,266,000
|
SCHEDULE
2
APPROPRIATION UNITS
AND OUTPUT CLASSES
1 |
2 |
Appropriation unit |
Class of output |
Legislative Assembly Secretariat |
1. Procedural, policy and administrative servicing of the Assembly, its members
and committees |
Auditor-General |
1. Auditor-General |
Chief Minister’s |
1. Government strategy |
| |
2. Financial and economic management |
ACT Executive |
1. ACT Executive |
Government Asset Management |
1. Government asset management |
Central Financing Unit |
1. Central Financing Unit |
Superannuation and Insurance Provision Unit |
1. Superannuation and Insurance Provision Unit |
Health and Community Care |
1. Policy, planning and health outcomes |
| |
2. Purchase of health, aged and disability services |
| |
3. Community and health services complaints |
| |
4. Payments for services purchased |
Urban Services |
1. Urban services |
| |
2. Transport |
| |
3. Housing |
| |
4. Environment and heritage |
| |
5. Planning and land management |
The InTACT Group |
1. The InTACT Group |
ACT Housing |
1. ACT Housing |
ACTION |
1. ACTION |
ACT Forests |
1. Forests |
Justice and Community Safety |
1. Policy advice |
| |
2. Justice and legal services |
| |
3. Regulatory services |
| |
4. Emergency management |
Education and Community Services |
1. Government school education |
| |
2. Non-government school education |
| |
3. Vocational education and training services |
| |
4. Children’s services |
| |
5. Youth services |
| |
6. Family services |
| |
7. Sport and recreation services |
| |
8. Policy advice and services to the Minister
and the Government |
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