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2022-2023-2024-2025
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first time
Appropriation (Parliamentary
Departments) Bill (No. 2) 2024-2025
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(Finance)
A Bill for an Act to appropriate additional money
out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for
expenditure in relation to the Parliamentary
Departments, and for related purposes
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Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 2) 2024-2025
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Contents
Part 1
--
Preliminary
1
1
Short title ........................................................................................... 1
2
Commencement ................................................................................. 2
3
Definitions ......................................................................................... 2
4
Portfolio statements ........................................................................... 4
5
Notional transactions between entities that are part of the
Commonwealth ................................................................................. 4
Part 2
--
Appropriation items
5
6
Summary of appropriations ............................................................... 5
7
Departmental items ............................................................................ 5
8
Administered items ............................................................................ 5
9
Administered assets and liabilities items ........................................... 5
10
Other departmental items ................................................................... 6
Part 3
--
Advance to the responsible Presiding Officer
7
11
Advance to the responsible Presiding Officer.................................... 7
Part 4
--
Miscellaneous
8
12
Crediting amounts to special accounts ............................................... 8
13
Appropriation of the Consolidated Revenue Fund ............................ 8
14
Repeal of this Act .............................................................................. 8
Schedule
1--Services for which money is
appropriated
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Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 2) 2024-2025
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A Bill for an Act to appropriate additional money
1
out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for
2
expenditure in relation to the Parliamentary
3
Departments, and for related purposes
4
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
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Part
1--Preliminary
6
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1 Short title
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This Act is the
Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act
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(No. 2) 2024
-
2025
.
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Part 1
Preliminary
Section 2
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Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 2) 2024-2025
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2 Commencement
1
(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table
2
commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with
3
column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect
4
according to its terms.
5
6
Commencement information
Column 1
Column 2
Column 3
Provisions
Commencement
Date/Details
1. The whole of
this Act
The day this Act receives the Royal Assent.
Note:
This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally
7
enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of
8
this Act.
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(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act.
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Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it
11
may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
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3 Definitions
13
In this Act:
14
administered assets and liabilities item
means an amount set out in
15
Schedule 1 in relation to a Parliamentary Department opposite the
16
heading "Administered Assets and Liabilities".
17
administered item
means an amount set out in Schedule 1 opposite
18
an outcome for a Parliamentary Department under the heading
19
"Administered".
20
departmental item
means the total amount set out in Schedule 1 in
21
relation to a Parliamentary Department under the heading
22
"Departmental".
23
Note:
The amounts set out opposite outcomes, under the heading
24
"Departmental", are "notional". They are not part of the item, and do
25
not in any way restrict the scope of the expenditure authorised by the
26
item.
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Preliminary
Part 1
Section 3
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expenditure
means payments for expenses, acquiring assets,
1
making loans or paying liabilities.
2
item
means any of the following:
3
(a) a departmental item;
4
(b) an administered item;
5
(c) an administered assets and liabilities item;
6
(d) an other departmental item.
7
non-corporate entity
means:
8
(a) a non-corporate Commonwealth entity within the meaning of
9
the
Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act
10
2013
; or
11
(b) the High Court.
12
Note:
Each Parliamentary Department is a non-corporate Commonwealth
13
entity for the purposes of the
Public Governance, Performance and
14
Accountability Act 2013
.
15
other departmental item
means an amount set out in Schedule 1 in
16
relation to a Parliamentary Department opposite the heading
17
"Equity Injections".
18
Parliamentary Department
means any of the following:
19
(a) the Department of the Senate;
20
(b) the Department of the House of Representatives;
21
(c) the Department of Parliamentary Services;
22
(d) the Parliamentary Budget Office.
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Portfolio Additional Estimates Statements
means the Portfolio
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Additional Estimates Statements that were tabled in the Senate or
25
the House of Representatives in relation to the Bill for this Act.
26
Portfolio Budget Statements
means the Portfolio Budget
27
Statements that were tabled in the Senate or the House of
28
Representatives in relation to the
Appropriation (Parliamentary
29
Departments) Act (No. 1) 2024-2025
.
30
portfolio statements
means:
31
(a) the Portfolio Budget Statements; and
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(b) the Portfolio Additional Estimates Statements.
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Part 1
Preliminary
Section 4
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President
means the President of the Senate.
1
responsible Presiding Officer
means:
2
(a) in relation to the Department of the Senate
--
the President; or
3
(b) in relation to the Department of the House of
4
Representatives
--
the Speaker; or
5
(c) in relation to the Department of Parliamentary Services
--
the
6
President and the Speaker together; or
7
(d) in relation to the Parliamentary Budget Office
--
the President
8
and the Speaker together.
9
Speaker
means the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
10
special account
has the same meaning as in the
Public
11
Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013
.
12
4 Portfolio statements
13
The portfolio statements are declared to be relevant documents for
14
the purposes of section 15AB of the
Acts Interpretation Act 1901
.
15
Note:
See paragraph 15AB(2)(g) of the
Acts Interpretation Act 1901
which
16
provides that the material that may be considered in the interpretation
17
of a provision of an Act includes any document that is declared by the
18
Act to be a relevant document.
19
5 Notional transactions between entities that are part of the
20
Commonwealth
21
For the purposes of this Act, notional transactions between
22
non-corporate entities are to be treated as if they were real
23
transactions.
24
Note:
This section applies, for example, to a "payment" between
25
non-corporate entities that are both part of the Commonwealth. One of
26
the effects of this section is that the payment will be debited from an
27
appropriation for the paying non-corporate entity, even though no
28
payment is actually made from the Consolidated Revenue Fund. This
29
is consistent with section 76 of the
Public Governance, Performance
30
and Accountability Act 2013
.
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Appropriation items
Part 2
Section 6
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Part
2--Appropriation items
1
2
6 Summary of appropriations
3
The total of the items specified in Schedule 1 is $132,000.
4
Note 1:
Items in Schedule 1 can be adjusted under Part 3 of this Act.
5
Note 2:
Sections 74 to 75 of the
Public Governance, Performance and
6
Accountability Act 2013
also provide for the adjustment of amounts
7
appropriated by this Act.
8
7 Departmental items
9
The amount specified in a departmental item for a Parliamentary
10
Department may be applied for the departmental expenditure of the
11
Parliamentary Department.
12
8 Administered items
13
(1) The amount specified in an administered item for an outcome for a
14
Parliamentary Department may be applied for expenditure for the
15
purpose of contributing to achieving that outcome.
16
(2) If the portfolio statements indicate that activities of a particular
17
kind were intended to be treated as activities in respect of a
18
particular outcome, then expenditure for the purpose of carrying
19
out those activities is taken to be expenditure for the purpose of
20
contributing to achieving the outcome.
21
9 Administered assets and liabilities items
22
(1) The amount specified in an administered assets and liabilities item
23
for a Parliamentary Department may be applied for expenditure for
24
the purpose of contributing to achieving any outcome specified in
25
Schedule 1 for the Parliamentary Department.
26
(2) If the portfolio statements indicate that activities of a particular
27
kind were intended to be treated as activities in respect of a
28
particular outcome, then expenditure for the purpose of carrying
29
Part 2
Appropriation items
Section 10
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out those activities is taken to be expenditure for the purpose of
1
contributing to achieving the outcome.
2
10 Other departmental items
3
The amount specified in an other departmental item for a
4
Parliamentary Department may be applied for the departmental
5
expenditure of the Parliamentary Department.
6
Advance to the responsible Presiding Officer
Part 3
Section 11
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Part
3--Advance to the responsible Presiding
1
Officer
2
3
11 Advance to the responsible Presiding Officer
4
(1) If a responsible Presiding Officer determined an amount under
5
subsection 11(2) of the
Appropriation (Parliamentary
6
Departments) Act (No. 1) 2024-2025
before the commencement of
7
this Act, the amount is to be disregarded for the purposes of
8
subsections 11(3), (4), (5) and (6) of that Act.
9
Note:
This means that, after the commencement of this Act, the responsible
10
Presiding Officers have access to the following amounts under
11
section 11 of the
Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act
12
(No. 1) 2024-2025
, regardless of amounts that have already been
13
determined under that section:
14
(a) for the Department of the Senate
--
$300,000;
15
(b) for the Department of the House of Representatives
--
$300,000;
16
(c) for the Department of Parliamentary Services
--
$1 million;
17
(d) for the Parliamentary Budget Office
--
$300,000.
18
(2) If:
19
(a) this Act appropriates an amount for particular expenditure;
20
and
21
(b) before the commencement of this Act, a responsible
22
Presiding Officer determined an amount (the
advanced
23
amount
) under section 11 of the
Appropriation
24
(Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 1) 2024-2025
for the
25
expenditure;
26
the amount appropriated by this Act for the expenditure is taken to
27
be reduced (but not below nil) by the advanced amount.
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Part 4
Miscellaneous
Section 12
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Part
4--Miscellaneous
1
2
12 Crediting amounts to special accounts
3
If any of the purposes of a special account is a purpose that is
4
covered by an item (whether or not the item expressly refers to the
5
special account), then amounts may be debited against the
6
appropriation for that item and credited to that special account.
7
13 Appropriation of the Consolidated Revenue Fund
8
The Consolidated Revenue Fund is appropriated as necessary for
9
the purposes of this Act, including the operation of this Act as
10
affected by the
Public Governance, Performance and
11
Accountability Act 2013
.
12
14 Repeal of this Act
13
This Act is repealed at the start of 1 July 2027.
14
Services for which money is appropriated
Schedule 1
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Schedule
1--Services for which money is
appropriated
Note:
See sections 6 and 13.
Abstract
Department
Total
$'000
Department of the House of Representatives
132
Total
132
Schedule 1
Services for which money is appropriated
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APPROPRIATIONS
Services for which money is appropriated
Schedule 1
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SUMMARY
Additional Appropriation (bold figures)
--
2024-2025
Budget Appropriation (italic figures)
--
2024-2025
Entity
Departmental Administered
Non-
operating
Total
$'000
$'000
$'000
$'000
Department of the Senate
-
-
-
-
29,061
-
-
29,061
Department of the House of
132
-
-
132
Representatives
29,669
357
-
30,026
Department of Parliamentary Services
-
-
-
-
210,169
6,432
41,133
257,734
Parliamentary Budget Office
-
-
-
-
9,895
-
-
9,895
Total: Parliamentary Departments
132
-
-
132
278,794
6,789
41,133
326,716
Schedule 1
Services for which money is appropriated
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PARLIAMENT
Additional Appropriation (bold figures)
--
2024-2025
Budget Appropriation (italic figures)
--
2024-2025
Actual Available Appropriation (light figures)
--
2023-2024
Departmental
Administered
Total
$'000
$'000
$'000
DEPARTMENT OF THE HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES
Operating
Outcome 1-
Advisory and administrative services support the
132
-
132
House of Representatives to fulfil its
29,669
357
30,026
representative and legislative role
27,202
347
27,549
Total: Department of the House of
132
-
132
Representatives