South Australian Current Acts South Australian Current Acts (1) The Governor may,
in any financial year, appropriate from the Consolidated Account to the public
purposes of the State, an amount not exceeding the maximum prescribed by
subsection (2).
(2) The maximum amount
that may be appropriated under subsection (1) is—
(a)
three per cent of the total of the amounts set out in the annual
Appropriation Acts for appropriation from the Consolidated Account in respect
of the previous financial year; less
(b) any
amounts previously appropriated under this section and not recouped under
subsection (4).
(3) Money appropriated
under subsection (1) may be issued and applied by the Treasurer for the
public purposes of the State during the financial year in which it is
appropriated.
(4) Any money
appropriated for any purpose by the Governor pursuant to this section in any
financial year may be recouped to the Governor's Appropriation Fund out of any
money subsequently voted by an annual Appropriation Act that is passed in the
same financial year, and thereafter the balance of the Governor's
Appropriation Fund will be increased by the amount so recouped.
(5) For the purpose of
determining the total amount that may be appropriated by the Governor in
accordance with this section each amount so appropriated will be included once
only in that determination despite the fact that it is, for any reason,
recorded more than once in the Consolidated Account or in a schedule to that
account.
(6) In this
section—
"Governor's Appropriation Fund" in relation to a financial year means the
money that the Governor is by subsection (1) authorised to appropriate in
that year;
"public purposes of the State" includes any purpose for which money is, under
the provisions of any Act, required to be paid out of money to be provided or
appropriated by Parliament.