Interpretation of sections 60–63
60 Interpretation of sections 60–63
In this Division, the expressions "revenue", "public money",
"taxation", and "loan" respectively do not include any revenue, money, taxation, or loan raised by local authorities or bodies for local purposes.
For the purposes of this Division a Bill, or a clause of a Bill, shall not be taken to appropriate revenue or public money, or to deal with taxation, by reason only of its containing provisions for the imposition or appropriation of fines or other pecuniary penalties, or for the demand or payment or appropriation of fees for licences or fees for services under the proposed Act.
For the purposes of this Division, a Bill, or a clause of a Bill, shall be taken to deal with taxation if it provides for the imposition, repeal, remission, alteration, or regulation of taxation.
In this Division—
appropriation Bill means a Bill for appropriating revenue or other public money;
money Bill means a Bill for appropriating revenue or other public money, or for dealing with taxation, or for raising or guaranteeing any loan, or for providing for the repayment of any loan;
money clause means a clause of a Bill, which clause appropriates revenue or other public money, or deals with taxation, or provides for raising or guaranteeing any loan or for the repayment of any loan;
previously authorised purpose means—
a purpose which has been previously authorised by Act of Parliament or by resolution passed by both Houses of Parliament; or
a purpose for which any provision has been made in the votes of the
Committee of Supply whereon an appropriation Bill previously passed was founded.
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