Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 2) 2017–2018

2017‐2018

The Parliament of the

Commonwealth of Australia

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Appropriation Bill (No. 2) 2017‐2018

No. , 2017

(Finance)

A Bill for 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—Advance to the responsible Presiding Officer

11 Advance to the responsible Presiding Officer

Part 4—Miscellaneous

12 Crediting amounts to special accounts

13 Appropriation of the Consolidated Revenue Fund

14 Repeal of this Act

Schedule 1—Services for which money is appropriated

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

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

Part 1—Preliminary

1 Short title

This Act is the Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act

(No. 2) 2017‐2018.

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
Provisions	Commencement	Details
1. The whole of this Act	The later of: (a) July 1 2017, (b) the day this Act receives Royal Assent.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted.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 be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.

3 Definitions

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) another departmental item.

non‐corporate entity means:

(a) a non‐corporate 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 non‐corporate 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 that were tabled in the Senate or the House of Representatives in relation to the Bill for this Act.

portfolio statements means the Portfolio Budget Statements.

President means the President of the Senate.

responsible Presiding Officer means:

(a) in relation to the Department of the Senate—the President; or

(b) in relation to the Department of the House of

Representatives—the Speaker; or

(c) in relation to the Department of Parliamentary Services—the

President and the Speaker together; or

(d) in relation to the Parliamentary Budget Office—the President and the Speaker together.

Speaker means the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

special account has the same meaning as in the Public Governance,

Performance and Accountability Act 2013.

4 Portfolio statements

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.

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”.

current year means the financial year ending on 30 June 2018.

5 Notional transactions between entities that are part of the Commonwealth

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

Note: This section applies, for example, to a “payment” between non‐corporate 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 non‐corporate 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 2—Appropriation items

6 Summary of appropriations

The total of the items specified in Schedule 1 is $473,113,000,000

7 Summary of services for which money is expected to be received

The total of the items specified in Schedule 2 is $460,424,000,000

Part 3—Advance to the responsible Presiding Officer

11 Advance to the responsible Presiding Officer

(1) This section applies if the responsible Presiding Officer is satisfied

that there is an urgent need for expenditure in relation to a Parliamentary

Department, in the current year, that is not provided for, or is insufficiently

provided for, in Schedule 1:

(a) because of an erroneous omission or understatement; or

(b) because the expenditure was unforeseen until after the last

day on which it was practicable to provide for it in the Bill for this Act before

that Bill was introduced into the House of Representatives.

(2) This Act has effect as if Schedule 1 were amended, in accordance

with a determination of the responsible Presiding Officer, to make provision

for so much (if any) of the additional expenditure as the responsible Presiding

Officer determines.

(3) The total of the amounts determined under subsection (2) for the

Department of the Senate cannot be more than $300,000.

(4) The total of the amounts determined under subsection (2) for the

Department of the House of Representatives cannot be more than $300,000.

(5) The total of the amounts determined under subsection (2) for the

Department of Parliamentary Services cannot be more than $1 million.

(6) The total of the amounts determined under subsection (2) for the

Parliamentary Budget Office cannot be more than $300,000.

(7) A determination made under subsection (2) is a legislative instrument,

but neither section 42 (disallowance) nor Part 4 of Chapter 3 (sunsetting) of

the Legislation Act 2003 applies to the determination.

Part 4—Miscellaneous

12 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.

13 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.

14 Repeal of this Act

This Act is repealed at the start of 1 July 2020.

Schedule 1—Services for which money is appropriated

Department	Totals (,000,000)
Treasury and Finance	8,000
Defence	28,380
Foreign Affairs, Trade and Tourism	6,135
Immigration	4,007
Social Services and Housing	161,990
Agriculture, Water and Rural Affairs	4,200
Environment	2,150
Attorney General and Justice	4,250
Infrastructure, Transport and Energy	26,000
Industry, Innovation and Science	17992
Health and Sport	75,000
Education, Training and Youth Affairs	35,000
Arts and Culture	2,970
Community, Local Government, States and territories	79,000
Indigenous Affairs	885
Totals	473,113

Schedule 2—Services for which money is expected to be received

Revenue	Totals (,000,000)
Income Tax	209,610
Fringe Benefits Tax	4,430
Superannuation Funds tax	8,540
Company Tax and Petroleum resource Rent	79,921
Goods and Services Tax	65,710
Wine Equalisation Tax	900
Agricultural levies	537
Excise and Custom Duty	36,920
Luxury Car Tax	650
Other Taxes	6,141
Non-taxation Receipts	28,987
Vacancy tax	5,525
Ending religious Tax exemptions	503
Debt Levy	7,400
Major Bank Debt Levy	4,650
Totals	460,424

Schedule 3 - Summary of updated areas of expenditure

Portfolio	Current Funding	Previous Funding	Explanation of Spending
Agriculture, Water and Rural Affairs	$4,200	$4,250
Arts and Culture	$2,970	$3,000	Broadcasting $1.55 billion, Fan Adaptations fund $20 million, Arts and cultural heritage $1.4 billion
Attorney General and Justice	$4,250	$4,750	Breaking the Cycle $200 million, General $3.8 billion, Increased funding to family court and federal circuit court $250 million
Community, Local Government, States and Government	$79,000	$81,000	Inter-governmental transactions to States $63.274 billion, Other programs $15.726 billion
Defence	$28,380	$28,550	middle East Operations $900 million, Cyber warfare $1.9 billion, Collins replacement $2 billion
Foreign Affairs, Trade and Tourism	$6,135	$6,750	Tourism $200 million, Economic Aid $3.360 billion, Pacific Girls Shaping Pacific Development Initiative $275 million, Disaster Relief $375 million, ASIS $480 million, Climate Change and resilience activities in pacific Island Countries $300 million, NGO cooperation $395 million, InnovationXchange $500 million, Export promotion $350 million, Regional co-operation and refugee and humanitarian assistance $390 million
Environment	$2,150	$1,750	Great Barrier reef fund (moved from DFAT to environment department) $390 million, Solar, hydro, wind $450 million, Nature reserves and parks $410 million, Environmental protection $900 million
Education, Training and Youth Affairs	$35,000	$35,000	For Primary and High Schools $20 billion, University funding $10 billion
Health and Sports	$75,000	$75,000	public hospital support $900 million, Mental Health funding $1.1 billion, sport and 800042000recreation $330 million, split between league, AFL and Soccer youth programs $120 million
Immigration	$4,007	$4,000	Border Protection $1 billion, AGeneral Immigration $3.007 billion
Indigenous Affairs	$885	$1,500	indigenous Business Australia $40 million, Indigenous Land Corporation $10 million, Indigenous Legal Affairs $185 million, National Aboriginal community controlled health organisation $350 million, National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flexible aged care program $300 million
Industry, Innovation and Science	$17,992	$15,000	IP Australia $187 million, competition and productivity enhancing reforms $125 million, Australian Prudential Regulation Authority $177 million, australian securities and investments commission $420 million, Department of Industry, Innovation and Science $450 million, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's $152 million, Labour and Employment $3.648 billion, Growing Business Investment $400 million, Grants and Investment in Manufacturing Program G.I.M.P(formerly known as (Advanced Manufacturing Fund)) $300 million, The Australian National Aeronautics Land Station (ANAL) $9 billion, General Research $2.790 billion, Bureau of Meteorology $330 million
Infrastructure, Transport and Energy	$26,000	$27,000	Energy $6.9 billion, Transport $10 billion, Melbourne Airport link $1.65 billion, ADElink $600 million, Land for HSR $500
Social Services and Housing	$161,990	$162,000	Reduction in Administrative costs $10 million, Housing $5 billion, National Disability insurance scheme $35 billion
Treasury and Finance	$8,000	$8,000	Funding for the legislative, executive, financial, fiscal, general affairs and services