Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) If, before the end
of a financial year (the previous year ), no supply is granted to meet the
requirements of the next financial year (the current year ), the Treasurer may
make and charge to the Consolidated Account any payments and advances to meet
those requirements at the start of the current year that do not exceed in
total an amount equal to 20% of the total amount appropriated for the previous
year by the Appropriation Acts.
(2) The authority
conferred on the Treasurer by subsection (1) authorises payments and
advances to be made only for the purposes —
(a) for
which expenditure was authorised for the previous year by the Appropriation
Acts; or
(b) for
which expenditure was authorised under section 27(1) to meet the
requirements of the previous year.
(3) The authority
conferred on the Treasurer by subsection (1) ceases to have
effect —
(a) at
the end of the first 2 months of the current year; or
(b) on
the commencement of an Act granting supply for the current year,
whichever occurs
first.
(4) On the
commencement of the Appropriation Acts appropriating the Consolidated Account
for the current year, the payments and advances made by the Treasurer under
subsection (1) to meet the requirements of the current year are taken to
be expenditure appropriated by those Acts for the current year in respect of
the purposes for which the payments and advances were made.