New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC FINANCE AND AUDIT ACT 1983 - SECT 24

24 Transfer of functions between Departments etc

(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of any Appropriation Act, where, after the passing of an Appropriation Act for any financial year the responsibility for a service or function for which an appropriation is made in the Appropriation Act for that year is transferred, the appropriation shall not lapse and may be issued and applied, in accordance with such determination as may be made by the Treasurer, for or towards the service or function the responsibility for which is transferred.

(2) The Treasurer shall lay or cause to be laid before the Legislative Assembly, within 6 sitting days after the determination is made under subsection (1), details of the appropriation the subject of the determination.

(3) If the Legislative Assembly passes a resolution, of which notice has been given within 6 sitting days of the Legislative Assembly after the details of an appropriation the subject of a determination under subsection (1) have been laid before it, disallowing the appropriation or any part thereof, the appropriation or part thereof ceases to have effect.

(4) For the purposes of this section, sitting days shall be counted whether or not they occur in the same session.

(5) Where the Treasurer has made a determination under subsection (1) in relation to an appropriation, the Treasurer shall prepare the consolidated financial statements for the financial year in relation to which the determination is made as if the whole of the appropriation in respect of which the determination is made had been applied in accordance with the determination as from the beginning of that financial year.