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Supply (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 2) 20222023

 

No. 46, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

An Act to appropriate money out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for expenditure in relation to the Parliamentary Departments, and for related purposes

 

 

 

Contents

Part 1—Preliminary

1 Short title

2 Commencement

3 Definitions

4 Portfolio statements

5 Notional transactions between entities that are part of the Commonwealth

Part 2—Appropriation items

6 Summary of appropriations

7 Departmental items

8 Administered items

9 Administered assets and liabilities items

10 Other departmental items

Part 3—Miscellaneous

11 Crediting amounts to special accounts

12 Appropriation of the Consolidated Revenue Fund

13 Repeal of this Act

Schedule 1—Services for which money is appropriated

Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia

 

 

Supply (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 2) 2022-2023

No. 46, 2022

 

 

 

An Act to appropriate money out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for expenditure in relation to the Parliamentary Departments, and for related purposes

[Assented to 3 November 2022]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

Part 1Preliminary

 

1  Short title

  This Act is the Supply (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 2) 20222023.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

 

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.

3 November 2022

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.

3  Definitions

 (1) In this Act:

administered assets and liabilities item means an amount set out in Schedule 1 in relation to a Parliamentary Department opposite the heading “Administered Assets and Liabilities”.

administered item means an amount set out in Schedule 1 opposite an outcome for a Parliamentary Department under the heading “Administered”.

Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 1) 20222023 means the Bill with that name introduced into the 47th Parliament.

departmental item means the total amount set out in Schedule 1 in relation to a Parliamentary Department under the heading “Departmental”.

Note: The amounts set out opposite outcomes, under the heading “Departmental”, are “notional”. They are not part of the item, and do not in any way restrict the scope of the expenditure authorised by the item.

expenditure means payments for expenses, acquiring assets, making loans or paying liabilities.

item means any of the following:

 (a) a departmental item;

 (b) an administered item;

 (c) an administered assets and liabilities item;

 (d) an other departmental item.

noncorporate entity means:

 (a) a noncorporate Commonwealth entity within the meaning of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013; or

 (b) the High Court.

Note: Each Parliamentary Department is a noncorporate Commonwealth entity for the purposes of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013.

other departmental item means an amount set out in Schedule 1 in relation to a Parliamentary Department opposite the heading “Equity Injections”.

Parliamentary Department means any of the following:

 (a) the Department of the Senate;

 (b) the Department of the House of Representatives;

 (c) the Department of Parliamentary Services;

 (d) the Parliamentary Budget Office.

Portfolio Budget Statements means the Portfolio Budget Statements tabled in the Senate or the House of Representatives in relation to the Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 1) 20222023.

portfolio statements means the Portfolio Budget Statements.

special account has the same meaning as in the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013.

 (2) To avoid doubt, for the purposes of other laws this Act is to be treated as an Appropriation Act.

4  Portfolio statements

 (1) The portfolio statements are declared to be relevant documents for the purposes of section 15AB of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901.

Note: See paragraph 15AB(2)(g) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 which provides that the material that may be considered in the interpretation of a provision of an Act includes any document that is declared by the Act to be a relevant document.

 (2) For the purposes of this Act and the Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 1) 20222023, the portfolio statements are taken to cover both the Bill for this Act and the Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 1) 20222023.

5  Notional transactions between entities that are part of the Commonwealth

  For the purposes of this Act, notional transactions between noncorporate entities are to be treated as if they were real transactions.

Note: This section applies, for example, to a “payment” between noncorporate entities that are both part of the Commonwealth. One of the effects of this section is that the payment will be debited from an appropriation for the paying noncorporate entity, even though no payment is actually made from the Consolidated Revenue Fund. This is consistent with section 76 of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013.

Part 2Appropriation items

 

6  Summary of appropriations

  The total of the items specified in Schedule 1 is $155,107,000.

Note: Sections 74 to 75 of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 also provide for the adjustment of amounts appropriated by this Act.

7  Departmental items

  The amount specified in a departmental item for a Parliamentary Department may be applied for the departmental expenditure of the Parliamentary Department.

8  Administered items

 (1) The amount specified in an administered item for an outcome for a Parliamentary Department may be applied for expenditure for the purpose of contributing to achieving that outcome.

 (2) If the portfolio statements indicate that activities of a particular kind were intended to be treated as activities in respect of a particular outcome, then expenditure for the purpose of carrying out those activities is taken to be expenditure for the purpose of contributing to achieving the outcome.

9  Administered assets and liabilities items

 (1) The amount specified in an administered assets and liabilities item for a Parliamentary Department may be applied for expenditure for the purpose of contributing to achieving any outcome specified in Schedule 1 for the Parliamentary Department.

 (2) If the portfolio statements indicate that activities of a particular kind were intended to be treated as activities in respect of a particular outcome, then expenditure for the purpose of carrying out those activities is taken to be expenditure for the purpose of contributing to achieving the outcome.

10  Other departmental items

  The amount specified in an other departmental item for a Parliamentary Department may be applied for the departmental expenditure of the Parliamentary Department.

Part 3Miscellaneous

 

11  Crediting amounts to special accounts

  If any of the purposes of a special account is a purpose that is covered by an item (whether or not the item expressly refers to the special account), then amounts may be debited against the appropriation for that item and credited to that special account.

12  Appropriation of the Consolidated Revenue Fund

  The Consolidated Revenue Fund is appropriated as necessary for the purposes of this Act, including the operation of this Act as affected by the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013.

13  Repeal of this Act

  This Act is repealed at the start of 1 July 2025.

Schedule 1Services for which money is appropriated

Note: See sections 6 and 12.

 

Abstract

 

Department

Total

 

$'000

 

 

Department of the Senate

 14,118

Department of the House of Representatives

 14,832

Department of Parliamentary Services

 121,010

Parliamentary Budget Office

 5,147

 

 

Total

 155,107

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

APPROPRIATIONS

 

 

 

 

 


SUMMARY

Summary of Appropriations (plain figures)—20222023

Actual Available Appropriation (italic figures)—20212022

 

Entity

Departmental

Administered

Non- operating

Total

 

$'000

$'000

$'000

$'000

 

 

 

 

 

Department of the Senate

 14,118

 

 

 14,118

 

 26,011

 

 

 26,011

 

 

 

 

 

Department of the House of

 14,637

 195

 

 14,832

Representatives

 25,664

 327

 

 25,991

 

 

 

 

 

Department of Parliamentary Services

 97,523

 1,392

 22,095

 121,010

 

 177,016

 8,859

 40,362

 226,237

 

 

 

 

 

Parliamentary Budget Office

 5,147

 

 

 5,147

 

 9,269

 

 

 9,269

 

 

 

 

 

Total: Parliamentary Departments

 131,425

 1,587

 22,095

 155,107

 

 237,960

 9,186

 40,362

 287,508

 


PARLIAMENT

Appropriation (plain figures)—20222023

Actual Available Appropriation (italic figures)—20212022

 

 

Departmental

Administered

Total

 

$'000

$'000

$'000

DEPARTMENT OF THE SENATE

 

 

 

Operating

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Outcome 1

 

 

 

Advisory and administrative support services to

 14,118

 

 14,118

enable the Senate and Senators to fulfil their

 26,011

 

 26,011

representative and legislative duties

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total: Department of the Senate

 14,118

 

 14,118

 

 26,011

 

 26,011

 


PARLIAMENT

Appropriation (plain figures)—20222023

Actual Available Appropriation (italic figures)—20212022

 

 

Departmental

Administered

Total

 

$'000

$'000

$'000

DEPARTMENT OF THE HOUSE OF

 

 

 

REPRESENTATIVES

 

 

 

Operating

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Outcome 1

 

 

 

Advisory and administrative services support the

 14,637

 195

 14,832

House of Representatives to fulfil its

 25,664

 327

 25,991

representative and legislative role

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total: Department of the House of

 14,637

 195

 14,832

Representatives

 25,664

 327

 25,991

 


PARLIAMENT

Appropriation (plain figures)—20222023

Actual Available Appropriation (italic figures)—20212022

 

 

Departmental

Administered

Total

 

$'000

$'000

$'000

DEPARTMENT OF PARLIAMENTARY

 

 

 

SERVICES

 

 

 

Operating

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Outcome 1

 

 

 

Support the functions of Parliament and

 97,523

 1,392

 98,915

parliamentarians through the provision of

 177,016

 8,859

 185,875

professional services, advice and facilities and

 

 

 

maintain Australian Parliament House

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total: Operating

 97,523

 1,392

 98,915

 

 177,016

 8,859

 185,875

Nonoperating

 

 

 

Administered Assets and Liabilities

 

 

 22,095

 

 

 

 40,362

Total: Nonoperating

 

 

 22,095

 

 

 

 40,362

Total: Department of Parliamentary Services

 97,523

 1,392

 121,010

 

 177,016

 8,859

 226,237

 


PARLIAMENT

Appropriation (plain figures)—20222023

Actual Available Appropriation (italic figures)—20212022

 

 

Departmental

Administered

Total

 

$'000

$'000

$'000

PARLIAMENTARY BUDGET OFFICE

 

 

 

Operating

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Outcome 1

 

 

 

Inform the Parliament by providing independent

 5,147

 

 5,147

and nonpartisan analysis of the budget cycle,

 9,269

 

 9,269

fiscal policy and the financial implications of

 

 

 

proposals

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total: Parliamentary Budget Office

 5,147

 

 5,147

 

 9,269

 

 9,269

 

 

 

 

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 25 October 2022

Senate on 26 October 2022]

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