Public Finance and Audit Act 1987

The Governor may, in any financial year, appropriate from the

Consolidated Account to the public purposes of the State, an amount not exceeding the maximum prescribed by subsection (2).

The maximum amount that may be appropriated under subsection (1) is—

three per cent of the total of the amounts set out in the annual

Appropriation Acts for appropriation from the Consolidated Account in respect of the previous financial year; less

any amounts previously appropriated under this section and not recouped under subsection (4).

Money appropriated under subsection (1) may be issued and applied by the

Treasurer for the public purposes of the State during the financial year in which it is appropriated.

Any money appropriated for any purpose by the Governor pursuant to this section in any financial year may be recouped to the Governor's

Appropriation Fund out of any money subsequently voted by an annual

Appropriation Act that is passed in the same financial year, and thereafter the balance of the Governor's Appropriation Fund will be increased by the amount so recouped.

For the purpose of determining the total amount that may be appropriated by the Governor in accordance with this section each amount so appropriated will be included once only in that determination despite the fact that it is, for any reason, recorded more than once in the Consolidated Account or in a schedule to that account.

In this section—

Governor's Appropriation Fund in relation to a financial year means the money that the Governor is by subsection (1) authorised to appropriate in that year;

public purposes of the State includes any purpose for which money is, under the provisions of any Act, required to be paid out of money to be provided or appropriated by

Parliament.