AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Appropriation Act 1996-97
No. 55 of 1996
	
An Act to appropriate money for the purposes of the Territory in respect of the year that commenced on 1 July 1996, and for related purposes
	[Notified in ACT Gazette S312: 22 November 1996]
	The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:
Short title
1.  This Act may be cited as the Appropriation Act 1996-97.
Commencement
2.  This Act commences on the day on which it is notified in the Gazette.
Purposes
3.  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.
Interpretation
4.  (1)  A word or expression in this Act has the same meaning as in the Financial Management Act 1996.
(2)  In this Act—
“Auditor-General” includes the staff assisting the Auditor-General;
“department” includes—
	(a)	the Legislative Assembly Secretariat; and
	(b)	the Auditor-General;
“financial year” means the year commencing on 1 July 1996.
(3)  For the purposes of this Act and the Financial Management Act 1996, the Canberra Institute of Technology is a department.
Appropriations of $1,374,451,000
5.  (1)  Where a department is listed in column 1 of Schedule 1—
	(a)	the corresponding amount listed in column 3 of the Schedule is appropriated to the department for the net cost of providing outputs in the financial year;
	(b)	the corresponding amount listed in column 4 of the Schedule is appropriated to the department for capital injection in the financial year; and
	(c)	the corresponding amount listed in column 5 of the Schedule is appropriated to the department for payments to be made on behalf of the Territory in the financial year.
(2)  Where an appropriation unit is listed in column 2 of Schedule 1—
	(a)	the corresponding amount listed in column 3 of the Schedule is appropriated to the appropriation unit for the net cost of providing outputs in the financial year;
	(b)	the corresponding amount listed in column 4 of the Schedule is appropriated to the appropriation unit for capital injection in the financial year; and
	(c)	the corresponding amount listed in column 5 of the Schedule is appropriated to the appropriation unit for payments to be made on behalf of the Territory in the financial year.
(3)  The amount listed in column 6 of Part 18 of Schedule 1 is appropriated to the Treasurer’s advance for the purposes of section 18 of the Financial Management Act 1996.
(4)  In Schedule 1 (except Part 18), the appropriations under subsection (1) to the department listed in column 1 of each Part are to be taken to be appropriations in the form of the corresponding appropriations under subsection (2) to the appropriation unit or units listed in column 2 of that Part.
Classes of outputs
6.  (1)  A group of outputs listed 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 listed in column 1 of Schedule 2 consists of the corresponding class of outputs, or group of output classes, listed in column 2 of that Schedule.
Commonwealth specific purpose payments
7.  Section 17 of the Financial Management Act 1996 applies to all appropriations under subsections 5 (1) and (2) of this Act except the appropriations to the following departments and appropriation units:
	(a)	Legislative Assembly Secretariat;
	(b)	Auditor-General;
	(c)	ACT Executive;
	(d)	Central Financing Unit;
	(e)	ACT Superannuation Provision;
	(f)	InTACT;
	(g)	ACTION;
	(h)	ACT Forests.

	SCHEDULE 1	Section 5
	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	

3,179,000		

2,451,000	

5,630,000	
Part 2	
Auditor-General	Auditor-General	848,000			848,000	
Part 3	
Chief Minister’s Department	Chief Minister’s Department	
34,210,000	
760,000	
22,891,000	
57,861,000	
Part 4	
ACT Executive	ACT Executive			1,726,000	1,726,000	
Part 5	
Central Financing Unit	Central Financing Unit		
12,147,000	
22,629,000	
34,776,000	
Part 6	
ACT Superannuation Provision	ACT Superannuation Provision			
13,324,000	
13,324,000	
Part 7	
Department of Health and Community Care	Department of Health and Community Care	

13,900,000		

308,502,000	

322,402,000	
Part 8	
	Business and Regional Development	

8,054,000	

42,000	

5,102,000	

13,198,000	
	Canberra Tourism	5,409,000	1,007,000		6,416,000	
	Arts and Heritage	3,605,000		14,735,000	18,340,000	
	Bureau of Sport, Recreation and Racing	

8,982,000		

10,611,000	

19,593,000	
Department of Business, the Arts, Sport and Tourism (Total)		26,050,000	1,049,000	30,448,000	57,547,000	
Part 9	
	Urban Services	136,965,000	48,506,000	8,860,000	194,331,000	
	Planning and Land Management	
26,417,000	
13,149,000		
39,566,000	
Department of Urban Services (Total)		163,382,000	61,655,000	8,860,000	233,897,000	
Part 10	
InTACT	InTACT					
Part 11	
ACT Housing	ACT Housing	23,398,000		8,164,000	31,562,000	
Part 12	
ACTION	ACTION	37,765,000	4,020,000		41,785,000	
Part 13	
ACT Forests	ACT Forests		960,000		960,000	
Part 14	
	Attorney-General’s	36,665,000	437,000	20,085,000	57,187,000	
	Maintenance of Law and Order		
3,223,000	
53,192,000	
56,415,000	
Attorney-General’s Department (Total)		36,665,000	3,660,000	73,277,000	113,602,000	
Part 15	
Emergency Services Bureau	Emergency Services Bureau	
17,974,000			
17,974,000	
Part 16	
	Government Schooling	
230,342,000	
2,269,000	
365,000	
232,976,000	
	Non-Government Schooling	
1,293,000		
68,295,000	
69,588,000	
	Training	4,542,000		4,642,000	9,184,000	
	Children’s, Family and Youth Services	
43,171,000	
473,000	
14,303,000	
57,947,000	
Department of Education and Training (Total)		279,348,000	2,742,000	87,605,000	369,695,000	
Part 17	
Canberra Institute
of Technology	Canberra Institute
of Technology	
54,016,000	
3,246,000		
57,262,000	
Total appropriated to
departments	
690,735,000	
90,239,000	
579,877,000	
1,360,851,000	
Part 18
Treasurer’s advance				
13,600,000	
Total appropriations	690,735,000	90,239,000	579,877,000	1,374,451,000	

	SCHEDULE 2	Section 6
	CLASSES OF OUTPUTS
1	2	
Appropriation unit	Class of output	
Legislative Assembly Secretariat	1.	Legislative Assembly		
Auditor-General	1.	Auditor-General	
Chief Minister’s Department	1.	Public sector management	
	2.	Economic and financial management	
	3.	Strategic policy and planning	
	4.	Information technology and human resource management	
	5.	Economic and financial services	
Central Financing Unit	1.	Central Financing Unit	
Department of Health and Community Care	1.	Policy advice and ministerial services	
	2.	Purchase of health and disability services	
	3.	Health Protection Service	
Business and Regional Development	1.	Policy advice and ministerial servicing	
	2.	Business and regional development services	
	3.	Employment and industrial services	
	4.	Compensation and labour legislation advice to business	
	5.	Regulatory activities	
	6.	Redevelopment of Kingston foreshores	
	7.	Land development	
Canberra Tourism	1.	Tourism and international tourism promotion	
Arts and Heritage	1.	Ministerial servicing and policy advice 	
	2.	Services and facilities	
	3.	Grants management	
	4.	Regulatory services	
Bureau of Sport, Recreation and Racing	1.	Policy advice 	
	2.	Services and facilities	
	3.	Management of grants	
	4.	Regulatory activities	
Urban Services	Minister for Urban Services
1.	Policy advice, administration and regulation	
	2.	Commissioning of city services	
	3.	Delivery of city services	
	4.	Delivery of works and commercial services	
	Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning
5.	Policy advice, administration and regulation	
	6.	Commissioning of city services	
	7.	Delivery of city services	
Planning and Land Management	1.	Policy advice and ministerial support	
	2.	Planning and land controls	
	3.	Planning, land and building services	
ACT Housing	1.	Policy advice and ministerial services	
	2.	Commonwealth / State Housing Agreement	
	3.	Administration of housing stock	
	4.	Rental bonds	
	5.	Administration of special purpose grants	
	6.	Rental housing assistance	
	7.	Client loan financing	
ACTION	1.	Public bus service	
ACT Forests	1.	ACT Forests	
Attorney-General’s	1.	Legal policy advice	
	2.	Legislative drafting	
	3.	Solicitor services	
	4.	Criminal prosecutions	
	5.	Dispute resolution and protection of rights	
	6.	Adult correctional services	
	7.	Consumer, registration and licensing services	
	8.	Electoral services	
Emergency Services Bureau	1.	Prevention / mitigation services	
	2.	Response services	
Government Schooling	1.	Government school education	
Non-Government Schooling	1.	Non-government school education	
Training	1.	Vocational education and training	
Children’s, Family and Youth Services	1.	Children’s services	
	2.	Youth services	
	3.	Family services	
Canberra Institute of Technology	1.	Policy advice and Ministerial services	
	2.	Vocational education programs	
	3.	Delivery of a degree program	
[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 24 September 1996]

©  Australian Capital Territory 1996