Appropriation Act (No. 3) 2025-2026

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.

This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted.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.

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.

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

a Commonwealth company within the meaning of that Act.

The amounts set out opposite outcomes for corporate entities, under the heading “Administered”, 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.

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.

an administered item;

a corporate entity item;

a departmental item.

a non‑corporate Commonwealth entity within the meaning of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013; or

the High Court.

the Portfolio Budget Statements; and

the Portfolio Additional Estimates Statements.

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.

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.

Items in Schedule 1 can be adjusted under Part 3 of this Act.

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

The amount specified in an administered item for an outcome for a non‑corporate entity may be applied for expenditure for the purpose of contributing to achieving that outcome.

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.

The amount specified in a corporate entity item for a corporate entity may be paid to the entity to be applied for the purposes of the entity.

If:

an Act provides that a corporate entity must be paid amounts that are appropriated by the Parliament for the purposes of the entity; and

Schedule 1 contains a corporate entity item for that entity;

If the Finance Minister determined an amount under subsection 10(2) of the Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2025‑2026 or subsection 10(2) of the Supply Act (No. 1) 2025‑2026 before the commencement of this Act, the amount is to be disregarded for the purposes of subsection 10(3) of the Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2025‑2026.

This means that, after the commencement of this Act, the Finance Minister has access to $400 million under section 10 of the Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2025‑2026, regardless of amounts that have already been determined under that section or under section 10 of the Supply Act (No. 1) 2025‑2026.

If:

this Act appropriates an amount for particular expenditure; and

before the commencement of this Act, the Finance Minister determined an amount (the advanced amount) under section 10 of the Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2025‑2026 or section 10 of the Supply Act (No. 1) 2025‑2026 for the expenditure;