Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Financial Management Act 1994 - SECT 40

Annual budget estimates

40. Annual budget estimates



(1) The Minister must prepare, in association with the annual appropriation
Bills, a statement of information under departmental headings setting out-

   (a)  a description of the goods and services to be produced or provided by
        each department during the period to which the statement relates,
        together with comparative information for the preceding financial
        year;

   (b)  a description of the amount available or to be available to each
        department during the period to which the statement relates, whether
        appropriated by the Parliament for that purpose or otherwise received
        or to be received by the department, together with comparative figures
        for the preceding financial year;

   (c)  the estimated amount of the receipts and receivables of each
        department during the period to which the statement relates, together
        with comparative figures for the preceding financial year;

   (d)  any other information required by this Act to be included in the
        statement;

   (e)  such other information as the Minister determines.

(2) The Minister must cause the statement to be laid before-

   (a)  the Legislative Assembly on or before the day on which the second
        readings of the annual appropriation Bills are moved; and





   (b)  the Legislative Council on the same day that it is laid before the
        Legislative Assembly or, if the Council is not sitting on that day, on
        the next sitting day of the Council.

(3) In this section-

department includes a department of the Parliament. _______________