State Emergency Service Act 1989

As soon as practicable after the commencement of each financial year, the Minister must prepare and, subject to the Treasurer’s agreement, adopt an update of SES funding for the financial year (the SES funding amount).

The SES funding amount is the estimated SES expenditure for the financial year (that is, EE_t in the SES funding target for the financial year), adjusted and updated in accordance with this section.

Estimated SES expenditure is to be adjusted for the purposes of the SES funding amount so that the estimate—

is reduced or increased, as appropriate, for any difference between the estimate of SES expenditure for the financial year, as adopted in the SES funding target, and an updated estimate of that amount, and

is reduced or increased, as appropriate, for any difference between the SES funding amount for the previous financial year and the actual amount of SES expenditure for that financial year.

Without limiting subsection (3), the Minister may, with the Treasurer’s agreement, decide that adjustments are not to be made to the SES funding amount in respect of—

any surplus in the Fund at the end of the previous financial year, or

certain money paid into the Fund, or

certain amounts it is estimated will be paid to the State Emergency Service for the financial year.

An adjustment to the estimated SES expenditure that is made under this section has no effect on, and is not to be used in the calculation of, the SES funding target for a financial year.