New South Wales Consolidated Acts

GOVERNMENT SECTOR FINANCE ACT 2018 - SECT 4.9

4.9 Appropriations affected by transfer of functions between Ministers or GSF agencies

(1) This section applies to an appropriation to a Minister made under an annual Appropriation Act for an annual reporting period for the NSW Government for a service, function or program if responsibility for the service, function or program is, during that period, transferred--

(a) from one Minister to another Minister, or

(b) from one GSF agency to another GSF agency.

(1A) The appropriation does not lapse merely because the responsibility for the service, function or program is transferred from one Minister to another Minister, or from one GSF agency to another GSF agency, during that period.

(2) The appropriation may be applied by a Minister, in accordance with any determination that may be made by the Treasurer in the same annual reporting period for the NSW Government, for or towards the transferred service, function or program.

(3) A determination may extend to the application of the appropriation before the determination is made and operates to validate that application.

(4) The Treasurer must cause details of any appropriation to which a determination relates to be included in the Budget Papers for the next annual reporting year for the NSW Government.