No. 35 of 1977

An Act to appropriate a sum out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, additional to the sums appropriated by the Appropriation Act (No. 1) 1976-77, for the service of the year ending on 30 June 1977.

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title.

1. This Act may be cited as the Appropriation Act (No. 3) 1976-77.

Commencement.

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

Issue and application of $247,476,100.

3. The Treasurer may issue out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund and apply for the services specified in the Schedule, in respect of the year ending on 30 June 1977, the sum of $247,476,100.

Appropriation.

4. The sum authorized by this Act to be issued out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund is appropriated, and shall be deemed to have been appropriated as from 1 July 1976, for the services expressed in the Schedule in respect of the financial year that commenced on that date.

Additional appropriation in respect of increases in salaries.

5. Section 5 of the Appropriation Act (No. 1) 1976-77 has effect, on and from the commencement of this Act, as if the reference in that section to Schedule 2 to that Act included a reference to the Schedule to this Act.

Act subject to provision.

6. This Act has effect subject to section 5 of the Loan Act 1976.

SCHEDULE Section 4

ABSTRACT

Department and Services	Total
	$
PARLIAMENT.................................................	779,000
DEPARTMENT OF ABORIGINAL AFFAIRS............................	9,085,000
DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES.......................	17,246,000
ATTORNEY-GENERAL’S DEPARTMENT.............................	2,233,000
DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND CONSUMER AFFAIRS................	1,594,000
DEPARTMENT OF THE CAPITAL TERRITORY.........................	1,645,000
DEPARTMENT OF CONSTRUCTION................................	3,862,000
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENCE......................................	68,303,000
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION...................................	40,842,000

SCHEDULE—continued

Department and Services	Total
	$
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT, HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT	315,000
DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE......................................	8,814,000
DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS...............................	8,122,100
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH.......................................	3,166,000
DEPARTMENT OF IMMIGRATION AND ETHNIC AFFAIRS................	160,000
DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE.......................	3,999,000
DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL RESOURCES...........................	686,000
DEPARTMENT OF THE NORTHERN TERRITORY.......................	795,000
DEPARTMENT OF OVERSEAS TRADE...............................	820,000
POSTAL AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT..................	10,884,000
DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRY.............................	1,807,000
DEPARTMENT OF THE PRIME MINISTER AND CABINET.................	1,384,000
DEPARTMENT OF PRODUCTIVITY.................................	15,505,000
DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE......................................	4,568,000
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SECURITY...............................	3,563,000
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT...................................	7,514,000
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY.................................	2,307,000
DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS’ AFFAIRS.............................	18,904,000
TOTAL.................................................	247,476,100