Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SUPPLY ACT (No. 1) 1993-94 No. 22, 1993 - SECT 12

12. (1) If a body to be known as the Australian Space Council is established
by legislation before the commencement of the Appropriation Act (No. 1), this
Act has effect, and is taken at all times to have had effect, as if the
appropriation of an amount to the Department of Industry, Technology and
Regional Development under subdivision 1 or 5 of Division 380 in the Schedule
were:

   (a)  an appropriation to that body of so much of that amount as is
        determined, in writing, by the Minister to be required for the
        purposes of that body in respect of the period ending immediately
        before the commencement of the Appropriation Act (No. 1); and

   (b)  an appropriation of the balance of that amount to the Department for
        the purpose of meeting running costs or expenses related to the
        Genetically Modified Organisms Release Authority incurred by the
        Department preparatory to the establishment of the body.

(3) If money is appropriated for the purposes of an industry innovation
program under subdivision 3 of Division 380 in the Schedule, the Schedule is
taken, for the purposes of this Act and the Audit Act 1901, to provide that
there may be credited to that subdivision any money received;

(2) as repayment of an amount that:

        (i)    was paid out of money appropriated under that item or out of
               money appropriated for the purposes of the program under a
               previous appropriation; and

        (ii)   was not spent; or

   (b)  as payment of fees charged for attendance at a seminar or conference
        held for the purposes of the program; or

   (c)  from the sale of publications made available for the purposes of the
        program.

(4) If the Consolidated Revenue Fund is credited with an amount purporting to
be:

   (a)  a repayment of an amount referred to in paragraph (3)(a): or

   (b)  a payment in respect of;

        (i)    a seminar or conference referred to in paragraph (3)(b); or

        (ii)   a publication referred to in paragraph (3)(c); that amount is
               taken, for the purposes of subsection (3), to be money received
               as repayment of that amount or as payment in respect of the
               seminar, conference or publication (as the case may be),
               whether or not money has in fact been received in payment of
               that amount.