APPROPRIATION (EAST TIMOR) ACT 1999-2000 NO. 180, 1999 

APPROPRIATION (EAST TIMOR) ACT 1999-2000 NO. 180, 1999 
- TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1.   Short title    
2.   Commencement    
3.   Appropriation for Department of Defence    
4.   Appropriation for AusAID    
5.   Advance to the Minister for Finance--unforeseen    
6.   Appropriations made by this Act are in addition to other    

APPROPRIATION (EAST TIMOR) ACT 1999-2000 NO. 180, 1999
- Long Title
An Act to appropriate money out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for
certain expenditure related to East Timor in respect of the year ending on 30
June 2000, and for related purposes

  

Appropriation (East Timor) Act 1999-2000
No. 180, 1999
An Act to appropriate money out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for
certain expenditure related to East Timor in respect of the year ending on 30
June 2000, and for related purposes
[Assented to 22 December 1999]
The Parliament of Australia enacts:

APPROPRIATION (EAST TIMOR) ACT 1999-2000
- SECT 1   Short title  

        This Act may be cited as the Appropriation (East Timor) Act 1999-2000.

APPROPRIATION (EAST TIMOR) ACT 1999-2000
- SECT 2   Commencement  

        This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

APPROPRIATION (EAST TIMOR) ACT 1999-2000
- SECT 3   Appropriation for Department of Defence  

        $860 million is appropriated out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the
purpose of meeting expenditure (for expenses, acquisition of assets or payment
of liabilities) incurred before 1 July 2000 in relation to the deployment of
the Defence Force in East Timor and the generation of additional forces to
sustain the deployment.

APPROPRIATION (EAST TIMOR) ACT 1999-2000
- SECT 4   Appropriation for AusAID  

(1)  $60 million is appropriated out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the
purpose of meeting expenditure (for expenses, acquisition of assets or payment
of liabilities) incurred before 1 July 2000 in relation to Australia's
contribution, through AusAID, to the humanitarian, reconstruction and
development needs of East Timor and to supporting the operations of the United
Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor.

(2)  Of that amount, no more than $728,000 may be applied for departmental
expenses, acquisition of assets, or payment of liabilities, of AusAID.

(3)  In this section:

"AusAID" means the Australian Agency for International Development.

APPROPRIATION (EAST TIMOR) ACT 1999-2000
- SECT 5   Advance to the Minister for Finance--unforeseen  

expenditure

(1)  This section applies if the Finance Minister is satisfied that:

        (a)  there is an urgent need for expenditure (for expenses, acquisition of
assets or payment of liabilities) for a purpose referred to in section 3 or 4;
and

        (b)  the additional expenditure is insufficiently provided for in that section
because it was unforeseen until after the last day on which it was practicable
to provide for it in the Bill for this Act that was introduced into the House
of Representatives.

(2)  This Act has effect as if section 3 or 4 (as the case requires) were
amended, in accordance with a determination of the Finance Minister, to make
provision for so much (if any) of the additional expenditure as the Finance
Minister determines.

(3)  The total of all the amounts determined by the Finance Minister:

        (a)  under this section; and

        (b)  under section 10 of the Appropriation Act (No. 1) 1999-2000; and

        (c)  under section 10 of the Appropriation Act (No. 3) 1999-2000;

cannot be more than $175 million.

(4)  Subsection 10(3) of the Appropriation Act (No. 3) 1999-2000 has
effect as if the amounts referred to in that subsection also included a
reference to any amounts determined by the Finance Minister under this
section.

(5)  The Finance Minister must give the Parliament details of amounts
determined under this section.

(6)  The Consolidated Revenue Fund is appropriated as necessary for the
purposes of this section.

(7)  In this section:

"Finance Minister" means the Minister administering this Act.

APPROPRIATION (EAST TIMOR) ACT 1999-2000
- SECT 6   Appropriations made by this Act are in addition to other  

appropriations

        The appropriations made by this Act are in addition to appropriations made by
any other Act.

(223/99)
[Minister's second reading speech made in--
House of Representatives on 25 November 1999
Senate on 9 December 1999]