When part of vote for treasury department may be applied for headings of another department
34 When part of vote for treasury department may be applied for headings of another department
This section applies if—
an amount (the Treasurer’s advance) is included in the vote for the treasury department for a financial year for purposes that may be delivered by any department; and
the Treasurer is satisfied a particular department (the delivering department) is to achieve 1 or more of the purposes by delivering a departmental service, administered item or equity adjustment for which the vote for the delivering department for the financial year did not provide or sufficiently provide.
The Treasurer may pay to the delivering department a part of the Treasurer’s advance that the Treasurer considers reflects the value of the service, item or adjustment to be delivered in the financial year by the delivering department.
The Treasurer may pay an amount to the delivering department even though the amount appropriated to the department under the relevant annual appropriation Act for the financial year will be exceeded.
The Treasurer must make appropriate entries for the payment in the accounts of the treasury department and the delivering department.
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