Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Act 1998

There is continued in existence the ARPANSA Account.

The Account was established by subsection 5(3) of the Financial Management Legislation Amendment Act 1999.

The Account is a special account for the purposes of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013.

Amounts equal to the following must be credited to the Account:

amounts received by the Commonwealth under the Licence Charges Act;

fees received by the Commonwealth under section 34;

amounts received by the Commonwealth in connection with the performance of the CEO’s functions under this Act or the regulations;

interest received by the Commonwealth from the investment of an amount standing to the credit of the Account;

money received by the Commonwealth in relation to property paid for after a debit of the Account in respect of an amount equal to the purchase price of the property;

amounts recovered by the Commonwealth under subsection 41(7), to the extent that they are referable to costs debited from the Account;

amounts of any gifts given or bequests made for the purposes of the Account.

An Appropriation Act provides for amounts to be credited to a special account if any of the purposes of the special account is a purpose that is covered by an item in the Appropriation Act.

The purposes of the Account are to make payments:

to further the object of this Act (as set out in section 3); and

otherwise in connection with the performance of the CEO’s functions under this Act or the regulations.