Commonwealth Numbered Acts

APPROPRIATION ACT (No. 3) 1975-76 No. 38 of 1976 - SECT 6

6. (1) In this section-

''Appropriation Act'' means the Appropriation Act (No. 1) 1975-76;

''Department'' means a Department of State;

''original Department'' means a Department specified in Schedule 2 to the
Appropriation Act;

''relevant date'' means 22 December 1975;
''relevant period'' means the period that commenced on the relevant date and
ended on 29 February 1976.

(2) The Appropriation Act has effect, and shall be taken to have had effect in
respect of expenditure on or after 7 October 1975, as if a reference in it to
the Department of Services and Property were a reference to the Department of
Administrative Services.

(3) The authority conferred on the Treasurer by section 3 of the Appropriation
Act to issue out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, and apply, moneys referred
to in that section in respect of-

   (a)  salaries, and payments in the nature of salaries, of persons employed
        in an original Department;

   (b)  administrative expenses of an original Department; or

   (c)  any other services related to a function of an original Department,
        being a function that became, during the relevant period, a function
        of another Department, shall, by force of this sub-section, be deemed
        to have extended to the issuing, during the relevant period, out of
        the Consolidated Revenue Fund, and the application, of those moneys in
        respect of-

   (d)  salaries, and payments in the nature of salaries, of persons employed
        in another Department in connexion with the performance of a function
        of the other Department that, immediately before the relevant date,
        was a function of the original Department;

   (e)  administrative expenses of another Department that are connected with
        the performance of such a function; or

   (f)  services related to a function of another Department, being a function
        that, during the relevant period, became a function of the other
        Department, respectively.

(4) The authority conferred on the Treasurer by section 3 of the Appropriation
Act to issue out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, and apply, moneys referred
to in that section in respect of-

   (a)  salaries, and payments in the nature of salaries, of persons employed
        in the Department of Urban and Regional Development; or

   (b)  administrative expenses of that Department, shall, by force of this
        sub-section, be deemed to have extended to the issue, during the
        period that commenced on 1 December 1975 and ended on 29 February
        1976, out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, and the application, of
        those moneys in respect of-

   (c)  salaries, and payments in the nature of salaries, to persons employed
        in the Department of Administrative Services; or

   (d)  administrative expenses of the Department of Administrative Services,
        respectively.

(5) The authority conferred on the Treasurer by section 3 of the Appropriation
Act to issue out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, and apply, moneys referred
to in that section in respect of furniture and fittings for an
original Department, or repairs and maintenance connected with an original
Department, shall, by force of this sub-section, be deemed to have extended to
the issuing, during the period referred to in sub-section (4), out of the
Consolidated Revenue Fund, and the application, of those moneys in respect of
furniture and fittings for any other Department, or repairs and maintenance
connected with any other Department, respectively.