AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Appropriation Act 1999-2000
No. 36 of 1999
	
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
[Notified in ACT Gazette S44: 12 July 1999]
	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 $1,863,649,241
(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	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	
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	
35,731,241
		
18,422,000
		
121,230,241
		
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
Superannuation and Insurance Provision Unit	
Superannuation 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
		
514,509,241
		
242,882,000
		
1,845,549,241
	
Part 16
Treasurer’s advance					
18,100,000
		
Total appropriations		1,088,158,000
		514,509,241
		242,882,000
		1,863,649,241		

	SCHEDULE 2			Section 6
	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	

1	2	
Appropriation unit	Class of output	

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	
[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 4 May 1999]

©  Australian Capital Territory 1999