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1998-99
The Parliament of
the
Commonwealth of
Australia
HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first
time
Appropriation
(East Timor) Bill 1999-2000
No. ,
1999
(Finance and
Administration)
A Bill for an Act to
appropriate money out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for certain expenditure
related to East Timor in respect of the year ending on 30 June 2000, and for
related purposes
ISBN: 0642
425558
Contents
A Bill for an Act to appropriate money out of the
Consolidated Revenue Fund for certain expenditure related to East Timor in
respect of the year ending on 30 June 2000, and for related
purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
This Act may be cited as the Appropriation (East Timor) Act
1999-2000.
This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal
Assent.
$860 million is appropriated out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the
purpose of meeting expenditure (for expenses, acquisition of assets or payment
of liabilities) incurred before 1 July 2000 in relation to the deployment of the
Defence Force in East Timor and the generation of additional forces to sustain
the deployment.
(1) $60 million is appropriated out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for
the purpose of meeting expenditure (for expenses, acquisition of assets or
payment of liabilities) incurred before 1 July 2000 in relation to
Australia’s contribution, through AusAID, to the humanitarian,
reconstruction and development needs of East Timor and to supporting the
operations of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East
Timor.
(2) Of that amount, no more than $728,000 may be applied for departmental
expenses, acquisition of assets, or payment of liabilities, of AusAID.
(3) In this section:
AusAID means the Australian Agency for International
Development.
(1) This section applies if the Finance Minister is satisfied
that:
(a) there is an urgent need for expenditure (for expenses, acquisition of
assets or payment of liabilities) for a purpose referred to in section 3 or 4;
and
(b) the additional expenditure is insufficiently provided for in that
section because it was unforeseen until after the last day on which it was
practicable to provide for it in the Bill for this Act that was introduced into
the House of Representatives.
(2) This Act has effect as if section 3 or 4 (as the case requires) were
amended, in accordance with a determination of the Finance Minister, to make
provision for so much (if any) of the additional expenditure as the Finance
Minister determines.
(3) The total of all the amounts determined by the Finance
Minister:
(a) under this section; and
(b) under section 10 of the Appropriation Act (No. 1) 1999-2000;
and
(c) under section 10 of the Appropriation Act (No. 3)
1999-2000;
cannot be more than $175 million.
(4) Subsection 10(3) of the Appropriation Act (No. 3) 1999-2000 has
effect as if the amounts referred to in that subsection also included a
reference to any amounts determined by the Finance Minister under this
section.
(5) The Finance Minister must give the Parliament details of amounts
determined under this section.
(6) The Consolidated Revenue Fund is appropriated as necessary for the
purposes of this section.
(7) In this section:
Finance Minister means the Minister administering this
Act.
The appropriations made by this Act are in addition to appropriations
made by any other Act.