Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) Money standing to
the credit of the State Pool Account is to be applied to fund the following in
the State under the National Health Reform Agreement (including through a
State Managed Fund) —
(a) the
services provided by local hospital networks;
(b)
health teaching, training and research provided by local hospital networks or
other organisations;
(c) any
other matter that under that Agreement is to be funded through the National
Health Funding Pool.
(2) Interest earned on
money in the State Pool Account is to be credited to the Consolidated Account.
(3) Payments of
amounts from the State Pool Account established for the State are to be made
by the Administrator strictly in accordance with the directions of the
responsible Minister for the State, including on the amount of each payment,
the party or account to which it is to be paid and the timing of the payment.
(4) The Administrator
is required to authorise personally each payment made from the State Pool
Account.
(5) The Administrator
is, at the direction of the responsible Minister for the State, to repay any
money paid by the State into the State Pool Account for the State that the
responsible Minister is satisfied constitutes an overpayment into that
Account.
(6) This section does
not affect the payment from the State Pool Account of charges imposed by the
bank at which the Account is established for the operation of that Account.
(7) This section does
not require the payment for services and matters referred to in subsection (1)
to be made only from the State Pool Account.
(8) If at any time
when a payment from the State Pool Account is required to be made there is no
Administrator or the Administrator is not available to make the payment at
that time, the payment from that Account may be made by an official of the
State who is directed by the responsible Minister for the State to make the
payment.