Financial Accountability Act 2009

This section applies if—

after the enactment of the ordinary annual appropriation Act for a financial year, the public business of departments is redistributed; and

because of the redistribution, a departmental service, administered item or equity adjustment relating to a department (the transferor department) becomes a departmental service, administered item or equity adjustment of another department (the transferee department).

Subsection (3) applies to the part of the transferor department’s vote that—

is attributable to the distributed service, item or adjustment; and

has not been paid by the Treasurer to the transferor department.

The Governor in Council may, by gazette notice, decide that the part is available for payment to the transferee department for application to the distributed service, item or adjustment.

The gazette notice must state—

the amount still available for the Treasurer to pay to the transferor department, together with the amounts still available under the department’s headings; and

the amount available for the Treasurer to pay to the transferee department, together with the amounts available under the department’s headings.

No part of an appropriation for the transferor department lapses merely because of the redistribution mentioned in subsection (1).

In this section—