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Appropriation (Parliament 2023-2024)

Bill 2023

Introduction Print

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

General

This Bill provides appropriation authority for payments from the

Consolidated Fund to the Parliament for the 2023/2024 financial year.

The amounts contained in Schedule 1 to the Bill provide for the ongoing

operations of the Parliament, new output initiatives and new asset investment

in so far as these are funded by way of annual appropriation.

In addition to the annual appropriations contained in this Bill, funds are

also made available to the Parliament by way of special appropriation.

Special appropriations arise through provisions that are contained in

legislation. These appropriations provide for the specific purposes set out in

that legislation and they do not lapse annually like the annual Appropriation

Act. Details of these can be found in Table A.4 of Budget Paper No. 5:

Statement of Finances.

Where an item in Schedule 1 provides that section 29 of the Financial

Management Act 1994 applies, money received from the provision of

services or asset sales by that Department or by specific purpose payment by

the Commonwealth or a municipal council may be credited to that item

during the financial year and is deemed to have been appropriated. Estimates

of appropriations annotated pursuant to section 29 of the Financial

Management Act 1994 may be found in Tables A.5 and A.6 of Budget

Paper No. 5: Statement of Finances.

Unapplied appropriation under the Appropriation (Parliament 2022-2023)

Act 2021 has been estimated and is included in the Budget Papers. At the

end of the 2022/2023 financial year actual unapplied appropriations are

finalised, approved carryover amounts determined and the 2023/2024

appropriations increased accordingly, pursuant to section 32 of the Financial

Management Act 1994.

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To enable comparison of the appropriations between years, Schedule 1 to the

Bill contains both the 2022/2023 and the 2023/2024 appropriated amounts.

Clause Notes

Clause 1 defines the purpose of the Bill.

Clause 2 specifies that the Bill comes into operation on the day it receives

the Royal Assent.

Clause 3 provides that the Treasurer may issue the stated amount out of the

Consolidated Fund in respect of the financial year 2023/2024 for

the purposes set out in Schedule 1 to the Bill. Subclauses (2)

and (3) provide authority for additional appropriation if necessary

for increases in salaries and related costs that may be the result of

any legislation or determination during the year.

Clause 4 provides that the Consolidated Fund is appropriated to the extent

necessary for the purposes included in clause 3.

Clause 5 provides that the amounts specified for an item in Schedule 1 are

to be applied subject to section 31 of the Financial Management

Act 1994 and on the basis that the amounts specified for that item

are not exceeded.

The clause also states that if depreciation is included in the

provision of outputs of a Department in Schedule 1 to the Bill,

then the additions to the net asset base of that Department may be

increased, subject to the Treasurer's approval, by an amount up to

the depreciation amount.

Clause 6 provides for the application of amounts in 2023/2024 for

arrangements, expenses or obligations that arise in 2023/2024 but

do not require payment until a future year.

Clause 7 provides for the automatic repeal of this Bill on the fourth

anniversary of the day on which it receives the Royal Assent in

accordance with the recommendation of the Scrutiny of Acts and

Regulations Committee in its Report on the Statute Law Repeals

Bill 2014, February 2015. The repeal does not affect any matter

or thing or the previous operation of the Act (see section 14(2) of

the Interpretation of Legislation Act 1984).