THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA.

APPROPRIATION (NO. 2) 1949-50.

No. 2 of 1950.

An Act to grant and apply an additional sum out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the service of the year ending the thirtieth day of June, One thousand nine hundred and fifty, and to appropriate that sum.

[Assented to 28th June, 1950.]

BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, for the purpose of appropriating the grant originated in the House of Representatives, as follows :—

Short title.

1. This Act may be cited as the Appropriation Act (No. 2) 1949-50.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Issue and application of £29,000,000.

3. The Treasurer may issue out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund and apply towards making good the supply hereby granted to His Majesty for the service of the year ending the thirtieth day of June, One thousand nine hundred and fifty, the sum of twenty-nine million pounds.

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Appropriation.

4. The sum granted by this Act is appropriated, and shall be deemed to have been appropriated as from the first day of July, One thousand nine hundred and forty-nine, for the purposes and services set forth in the Schedule to this Act in relation to the financial year ending the thirtieth day of June, One thousand nine hundred and fifty.

Section 4. THE SCHEDULE.

Abstract.

—	Total.
PART I.—DEPARTMENTS AND SERVICES—OTHER THAN BUSINESS UNDERTAKINGS AND TERRITORIES OF THE COMMONWEALTH—	£
defence Services........................................	1,400,000
Miscellaneous Services....................................	1,000,000
War (1939-45) Services...................................	20,000,000
Total Part 1..........................	22,400,000
PART 2.—BUSINESS UNDERTAKINGS—
Postmaster-General's Department.............................	6,000,000
Total Part 2..........................	6,000,000
PART 3.—TERRITORIES OF THE COMMONWEALTH—
Papua and New Guinea....................................	600,000
Total Part 3..........................	600,000
Total........................	29,000,000

PART I.—DEPARTMENTS AND SERVICES—OTHER THAN BUSINESS UNDERTAKINGS AND TERRITORIES OF THE COMMONWEALTH—	£
XXII.—DEFENCE SERVICES.
DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY.
Division No. 123.—NAVAL ESTABLISHMENTS.
A.—Salaries and payments in the nature of salary.................	400,000
DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY.
Division No. 133.—AUSTRALIAN REGULAR ARMY.
A.—Pay and allowances in the nature of pay.....................	500,000
DEPARTMENT OF SUPPLY.
Division No. 155.—GOVERNMENT UNDERTAKINGS AND ESTABLISHMENTS.
B.—General Expenses....................................	500,000
Total Defence Services..........................	1,400,000
XXIII.—MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES.
Division No. 177.—DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH.....................
5. Cattle tick control in New South Wales and Queensland—Subsidy.....	200,000
Division No. 181.—DEPARTMENT OF IMMIGRATION.
A.—Encouraged Immigration—
5. Displaced persons from Europe—Contribution towards fares, clothing, accommodation and sustenance and initial education while in reception centres	800,000
Total Miscellaneous Services......................	1,000,000

PART I.—DEPARTMENTS AND SERVICES—OTHER THAN BUSINESS UNDERTAKINGS AND TERRITORIES OF THE COMMONWEALTH—continued.		£
XXV.—WAR (1939-45) SERVICES.
DEFENCE SERVICES.
Division No. 188 (a).—PROPORTION OF EXPENDITURE PROVIDED UNDER DEPARTMENTAL VOTES.		500,000
INTERNATIONAL RELIEF AND REHABILITATION.
Division No. 202.—INTERNATIONAL POST-WAR RELIEF AND REHABILITATION.
	£
1. International Refugee Organization—Contribution........	290,000
2. Government of Burma—Loan......................	627,000
Total Division No. 202......................		917,000
INTERNATIONAL MONETARY AGREEMENTS.
Division No. 202k.—INTERNATIONAL MONETARY AGREEMENTS		2,780,000
SUBSIDIES.
Under Control of Department of the Treasury and Department of Trade and Customs.
Division No. 203.—PRICE STABILIZATION SUBSIDIES.
1. Tea ..............................................		1,000,000
Under Control of Department of Commerce and Agriculture.
Division No. 204.—ASSISTANCE TO PRIMARY PRODUCTION.
1. Dairy Industry.......................................		2,200,000
5. Wheat Industry.......................................		800,000
Total Division No. 204..........................		3,000,000
Total Subsidies...............................		4,000,000
GENERAL CHARGES (to be allocated to particular Services by Supplementary Appropriation)		11,803,000
Total War (1939-45) Services.....................		20,000,000
Total Part 1.................................		22,400,000

PART 2.—BUSINESS UNDERTAKINGS.
II.—POSTMASTER-GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT.	£
Division No. 228.—VICTORIA.
C.—Stores and Materials—
9. Working advance—for payment to credit of Post Office Stores and Transport Trust Account	3,000,000
GENERAL CHARGES (to be allocated to particular Services by Supplementary Appropriation) ………………………………………………………………………	3,000,000
Total Part 2............................	6,000,000
PART 3.—TERRITORIES OF THE COMMONWEALTH.
PAPUA AND NEW GUINEA.
Division No. 253.—MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES.
1. Grant to Administration towards expenses including native welfare, development, war damage and reconstruction	600,000
Total Part 3............................	600,000
Total.........................	29,000,000

By Authority: L. F. JOHNSTON, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.

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