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ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER COMMISSION ACT 1989 No. 150 of 1989 - SECT 61 Estimates

ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER COMMISSION ACT 1989 No. 150 of 1989 - SECT 61

Estimates
61. (1) The Commission shall prepare estimates of the receipts and expenditure
of the Commission for each financial year and, if the Minister so directs, for
any other period specified by the Minister, and the Commission shall submit
estimates so prepared to the Minister not later than such date as the Minister
directs.

(2) Subject to subsections (3) and (4) and 67 (2), the money of the Commission
shall not be spent, or paid into the Housing Fund or the Land Fund, otherwise
than in accordance with estimates of expenditure approved by the Minister.

(3) The amount spent by the Commission in relation to matters covered by an
item in estimates approved by the Minister (not being matters covered in
Regional Council estimates) may differ from the amount allocated to that item
in those estimates by not more than:

   (a)  1% of the amount so allocated; or

   (b)  $250,000 or such larger amount as is prescribed; whichever is larger.

(4) Nothing in subsection (3) empowers the Commission to spend amounts in
relation to matters covered by the estimates approved by the Minister that
exceed in total the total amount of expenditure provided for by those
estimates.

(5) The amount spent, or paid into the Land Fund, by the Commission in
relation to matters covered by an item in approved Regional Council estimates
may, if the Regional Council concerned so directs in writing, differ from the
amount allocated to that item in those estimates by not more than 10% of the
amount so allocated.

(6) Nothing in subsection (5) empowers the Commission to spend or pay amounts
in relation to matters covered by approved Regional Council estimates for a
region that exceed in total the total amount allocated by those approved
Regional Council estimates for that region.

(7) In this section:

"money of the Commission" does not include:

   (a)  money held in trust by the Commission;

   (b)  money in the Housing Fund or the Land Fund; or

   (c)  money appropriated for the purposes of the Corporation or Aboriginal
        Hostels Limited.