Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) Before making or
approving arrangements under section 4C(1) that will operate during a
financial year, or applying during a financial year money standing to the
credit of the FHRI Account under section 4C, the Minister for Health must
—
(a)
direct the advisory group to make a recommendation on how money standing to
the credit of the FHRI Account should be applied during the financial year
under section 4C; and
(b)
consider the advisory group’s recommendation.
(2) A direction under
subsection (1)(a) may —
(a)
include proposals for how money standing to the credit of the FHRI Account is
to be applied during the financial year under section 4C; and
(b)
require the advisory group’s recommendation to state 1 of the following
—
(i)
that money standing to the credit of the FHRI Account
should be applied during the financial year in accordance with the proposals;
(ii)
that money standing to the credit of the FHRI Account
should not be applied during the financial year in accordance with the
proposals;
(iii)
that money standing to the credit of the FHRI Account
should be applied during the financial year in accordance with the proposals
as the proposals are modified as specified in the recommendation.
(3) Within 14 days
after the day on which the Minister for Health receives a recommendation for
the purposes of subsection (1)(a), the Minister for Health must cause the
following documents to be laid before each House of Parliament —
(a) a
copy of the Minister for Health’s direction to the advisory group to
make the recommendation;
(b) a
copy of the recommendation.
(4) Subsection (5)
applies if —
(a) at
the beginning of the 14-day period referred to in subsection (3), a House of
Parliament is not sitting; and
(b) in
the Minister for Health’s opinion, the House will not sit before the end
of the period.
(5) If this subsection
applies —
(a) the
Minister for Health must, before the end of the period, send the documents to
the Clerk of the House; and
(b) when
a document is sent to the Clerk it is taken to have been laid before the
House; and
(c) the
laying of a document that is taken to have occurred under paragraph (b) must
be recorded in the Minutes, or Votes and Proceedings, of the House on the
first sitting day of the House after the Clerk receives the document.
[Section 4D inserted: No. 22 of 2020 s. 9.]