Western Australian Numbered Acts

FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION AND AUDIT AMENDMENT ACT 2000 (NO. 65 OF 2000) - SECT 4

4 .         Section 27 amended

                Section 27(1) is repealed and the following subsections are inserted instead —

“

        (1)         The Treasurer may direct that an appropriation for a financial year may, to the extent necessary to meet any relevant commitment, be transferred to a suspense account, and any such transfer is to be regarded as a payment correctly chargeable against that appropriation for that financial year.
        (1a)         Moneys standing to the credit of a suspense account under subsection (1) may be transferred as and when needed for application in connection with any relevant commitment and, subject to subsection (3), are not to be applied in any other way.
        (1b)         In subsections (1) and (1a) —

        "relevant commitment" means a commitment that —

            (a)         is relevant to the financial year referred to in subsection (1); and

            (b)         is in respect of superannuation, leave or depreciation.

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