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SUPPLY ACT (No. 2) 1985-86 No. 72, 1985 - SECT 3

3. (1) The Minister for Finance may issue out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund
and apply for the services specified in Schedule 2 in respect of the financial
year ending on 30 June 1986 the sum of $1,752,656,000.

(2) Except where the contrary intention appears in Schedule 2, amounts issued
by the Minister for Finance under sub-section (1) in respect of services
described in Schedule 2 as Capital Works and Services may be applied only for
purposes of a kind for which money appropriated in respect of services so
described in an Act appropriating money, otherwise than by way of interim
provision, for expenditure in respect of the financial year ending on 30 June
1985 could lawfully have been applied.

(3) Except where the contrary intention appears in Schedule 2, amounts issued
by the Minister for Finance under sub-section (1) in respect of payments to or
for the States and the Northern Territory may be applied only in making
payments to or for the States and the Northern Territory of a kind that could
lawfully have been made out of money appropriated for payments to or for the
States and the Northern Territory in an Act appropriating money, otherwise
than by way of interim provision, for expenditure in respect of the financial
year ending on 30 June 1985.

(4) The Consolidated Revenue Fund is appropriated to the extent necessary for
the purposes of sub-section (1).