Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SUPPLY ACT (No. 2) 1992-93 No. 43, 1992 - SECT 4

4. (1) In this section and in determinations for the purposes of paragraph
(2)(a) or (b):

"Appropriation Act" means an Act appropriating money for expenditure in
respect of a financial year and includes an Act appropriating money, by way of
interim provision, for such expenditure.

(2) Payments out of such of the money appropriated by this Act as is specified
in the Division, or unit of a Division, in Schedule 2 that is specified in
column 2 of an item in Schedule 1, being payments that are made to a State for
a purpose specified in column 3 of that item must be made:

   (a)  on such terms and conditions (if any) as are from time to time
        determined, in writing, for the purposes of Appropriation Acts, by the
        Minister specified in column 4 of that item, as being terms and
        conditions applicable to payments under such Acts to a State for that
        purpose; and

   (b)  in such amounts and at such times as are determined, in writing, by
        the Minister specified in column 5 of that item.

(3) Payments to a State out of such of the money appropriated by this Act as
is specified in Division 977 in Schedule 2 must be made in accordance with any
determinations of the Treasurer as to the amounts and times of payments.

(4) Nothing in this section limits, by implication, the power of the
Commonwealth to make payments to a Territory, a local Government body, a body
corporate, an organisation or a natural person for any purposes for which
money is appropriated under Appropriation Acts:

   (a)  on such terms and conditions; and

   (b)  in such amounts and at such times; as the Commonwealth determines.