Commonwealth Numbered Acts

APPROPRIATION ACT (No. 4) 1993-94 No. 52 of 1994 - SECT 5

5. (1) In this section and in determinations for the purposes of paragraph
(2)(a) or (b):

"Appropriation Act" means an Act appropriating money for expenditure in
respect of a financial year and includes an Act appropriating money, by way of
interim provision, for such expenditure.

(2) Payments out of such money appropriated by this Act as is specified in the
Division, or unit of a Division, in Schedule 2 that is specified in column 2
of an item in Schedule 1, being payments that are made to a State for a
purpose specified in column 3 of that item, must be made:

   (a)  on the terms and conditions (if any) that are from time to time
        determined, in writing, for the purposes of Appropriation Acts, by the
        Minister specified in column 4 of that item, as being terms and
        conditions applicable to payments under those Acts to a State for that
        purpose; and

   (b)  in the amounts and at the times that are determined, in writing, by
        the Minister specified in column 5 of that item.

(3) Payments to a State out of such of the money appropriated by this Act as
is specified in Division 977 in Schedule 2 must be made in accordance with any
determinations of the Treasurer as to the amounts and times of payments.

(4) Nothing in this section limits, by implication, the power of the
Commonwealth to make payments to a Territory, a local Government body, a body
corporate, an organisation or a natural person for any purposes for which
money is appropriated under Appropriation Acts:

   (a)  on the terms and conditions; and

   (b)  in the amounts and at the times; that the Commonwealth determines.