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

2017‐2018

The Parliament of the

Commonwealth of Australia

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Appropriation Bill (No. 2) 2017‐2018

No. , 2017

(Treasury)

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) January 16 2018, (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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted.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 $461,124,000,000

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

The total of the items specified in Schedule 2 is $462,400,000,000

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	7,900
Defence	31,600
Foreign Affairs	5,725
Immigration, Trade and Tourism	4,057
Community and Youth Services	161,991
Agriculture and Water Resources	3,500
Environment	2,000
Attorney General	1,750
Justice	2,500
Transport	9,100
Infrastructure and Energy	16,900
Industry, Innovation and Science	17,994
Communications and Cyber Terrorism	3,280
Health	74,552
Education and Employment	35,000
Arts, Culture and Sport	3,370
States, Territories and External Territoies	79,000
Indigenous Affairs	885
Small Business	20
Totals	461,124

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

Revenue	Totals ($,000,000)
Income Tax	209,607
Fringe Benefits Tax	4,430
Superannuation Funds tax	8,540
Company Tax and Petroleum resource Rent	80390
Goods and Services Tax	67,353
Wine Equalisation Tax	900
Agricultural levies	537
Excise and Custom Duty	37,289
Other Taxes	6,155
Ending religious Tax exemptions	503
Non-taxation Receipts	29,121
Vacancy tax	5,525
Debt Levy	7,400
Major Bank Debt Levy	4,650
Totals	462,400

Schedule 3 - Summary of updated areas of expenditure

Portfolio	Previous Funding	Current Funding	Explanation of Spending ($,000,000)
Agriculture and Water Resources	$4,200	$3,500	Towards Argicultral departments and offices $400 towards National Water Infrastructure Development Fund
Arts, Culture and Sports	$3,420	$3,370	Broadcasting $1500,$1 for community grants, $3 for public museums, Arts and cultural heritage $1,400. $320 sport and recreation + $140 split between league, AFL Soccer and Cricket youth
Attorney General	$4,250	$1,750	Breaking the Cycle $200, General $3,800, Increased funding to family court and federal circuit court $250. Main Reduction due to Justice now its own department
States, Territories and External Territories	$79,000	$79,000	Inter-governmental transactions to States $63,274, Other programs $15,276
Communications and Cyber Terrorism	$3,000	$3,280	Extra $300 for AFP, ASIO and others for Cyber-Terroism and Cyber-Warfare. Funding also towards government broadcasting services
Defence	$28,380	$31,600	$3,200 towards Anzac and Adelaide Class replacements (total to be $32,000), general operations and peacekeeping missions
Foreign Affairs	$6,185	$5,725	Economic Aid to $3,000, Pacific Girls Shaping Pacific Development Initiative., Disaster Relief $350, ASIS $480, Climate Change and resilience activities in pacific Island Countries $300 million, NGO cooperation $395, InnovationXchange $500, Regional co-operation and refugee and humanitarian assistance $350
Environment	$2,150	$2,000	Great Barrier reef fund $390, Solar, hydro, wind $300, Nature reserves and parks $410, Environmental protection $900
Education and Employment	$35,000	$35,000	For Primary and High Schools $20,000, University funding $10,000
Health	$74,550	$74,552	Extra $600 to establish a National Mental Health Commission, extra $400 for removal of bulk billing freeze ($400 is a year on year cost), $250 towards development of Rural E-GP initiative
Immigration, Trade and Tourism	$4,557	$4,057	Border Protection $1,000. General Immigration $300 ($500 less cost with closure of Manus and Nauru centres and now at Christmas Island), Export Promotion $350, Tourism $170 with $30 for promoting regional areas (extra $2 reassigned to promoting rural areas)
Indigenous Affairs	$885	$885	indigenous Business Australia $40, Indigenous Land Corporation $10, Indigenous Legal Affairs $185, National Aboriginal community controlled health organisation $350, National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flexible aged care program $300
Industry, Innovation and Science	$17,992	$17,994	A further $2 allocated to the CSIRO IP Australia $187, competition and productivity enhancing reforms $125, Australian Prudential Regulation Authority $177, australian securities and investments commission $420, Department of Industry, Innovation and Science $450, Australian Competition and Consumer Commision $152, Labour and Employment $3648, Growing Business Investment $400, Grants and Investment in Manufacturing Program G.I.M.P(formerly known as (Advanced Manufacturing Fund)) $300 ANAL $9000, General Research $2790, Bureau of Meteorology $330,
Infrastructure and Energy	$16,900	$16,900	Energy $6,900,
Justice	N/A	$2,500	General $2,000 Further funding towards Customs for import monitoring, more staff, upgrade of equipment $500
Community and Youth Services	$161,990	$161,991	$161,990 towards Social Service Payments $10,000, Housing $5,000, National Disability insurance scheme $35,000 + $0.5 in Youth in Trouble Grants + $0.5 for grants towards regional community grants
Treasury	$8,000	$7,900	Funding for the legislative, executive, financial, fiscal, general affairs and services
Transport	$9,100	$9,100	Melbourne Airport link, Albion corridor $1650($45 reduction from passing cost onto state gov). ADElink (Including Henley Beach and Airport Link) $600, Land for HSR $500. Maintenance, ongoing projects and other project $6350
Small Business	N/A	20	$5 to be allocated to Internet Start Up Grants Program