New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC FINANCE AND AUDIT ACT 1983 - SECT 21A

21A Special appropriations

(1) A provision of any Act which appropriates money from the Consolidated Fund for a specified purpose operates only to the extent necessary to meet any shortfall in the cost of meeting that purpose after the application of money for that purpose from a working account established under section 13A.

(2) A provision of any Act (other than an Appropriation Act) which appropriates money from the Consolidated Fund for a specified purpose shown in the Estimates of the Consolidated Fund operates only to the extent necessary to meet any shortfall in the cost of meeting that purpose after the appropriation of money for that purpose under an Appropriation Act.

(3) In this section:
"Appropriation Act" means an Act with the object of appropriating sums of money for the ordinary annual services of the Government or capital works and services of the Government, or both.