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1998-1999-2000-2001
The
Parliament of the
Commonwealth of
Australia
THE
SENATE
Presented and read a first
time
Constitution Alteration
(Appropriations for the Ordinary Annual Services of the Government)
2001
No. ,
2001
(Senators Stott Despoja and
Murray)
A Bill for an Act to alter the
Constitution to ensure that if the Senate fails to pass a proposed law
appropriating revenue or moneys for the ordinary annual services of the
Government in respect of a year, an amount of money is appropriated for those
services in respect of that year equal to the amount appropriated for those
services in respect of the preceding year
ISBN: 0642
460485
Contents
A Bill for an Act to alter the Constitution to ensure
that if the Senate fails to pass a proposed law appropriating revenue or moneys
for the ordinary annual services of the Government in respect of a year, an
amount of money is appropriated for those services in respect of that year equal
to the amount appropriated for those services in respect of the preceding
year
The Parliament of Australia, with the approval of the
electors, as required by the Constitution, enacts:
This Act may be cited as the Constitution Alteration (Appropriations
for the Ordinary Annual Services of the Government) 2001.
The Constitution is altered as set out in the Schedule.
1 Section 53, after the fourth
paragraph
Add “If the House of Representatives passes a proposed law
appropriating revenue or moneys for the ordinary annual services of the
Government in respect of a year, and at the expiration of sixty days after the
day on which the proposed law is transmitted to the Senate the Senate has not
passed the proposed law, there shall be deemed to be in force, until the
Parliament makes a law appropriating revenue or moneys for those services in
respect of that year, a law appropriating for those services in respect of that
year an amount of money equal to the amount appropriated for those services in
respect of the year immediately preceding that year.”.
2 At the end of
section 54
Add “in respect of a particular year, and any law in contravention of
this section shall be of no effect”.