Financial Management and Accountability Amendment Regulations 1999 (No. 1)

I, WILLIAM PATRICK DEANE, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations under the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997.

Dated 17 March 1999.

WILLIAM DEANE
Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

John Fahey

Minister for Finance and Administration

Financial Management and Accountability Amendment Regulations 1999 (No. 1)¹

Statutory Rules 1999    No. 44²

made under the

Contents

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                        1     Name of regulations                                                       

                        2     Commencement                                                             

                        3     Amendment of Financial Management and Accountability Regulations 1997   

Schedule 1       Amendments                                                              

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1           Name of regulations

                     These regulations are the Financial Management and Accountability Amendment Regulations 1999 (No. 1).

2           Commencement

                     These regulations commence on gazettal.

3           Amendment of Financial Management and Accountability Regulations 1997

                     Schedule 1 amends the Financial Management and Accountability Regulations 1997.

Schedule 1        Amendments

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(regulation 3)

[1]         Paragraph 5 (1) (a)

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                  the Schedule

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                  Schedule 1

[2]         Regulation 9

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                  An approval

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                  (1)

[3]         Regulation 9

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         (2)   Subregulation (1) does not apply to a proposal by an intelligence or security agency to spend operational money within the meaning of section 5 of the Act as modified in accordance with Schedule 2.

[4]         After regulation 26

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27     Modification of Act for intelligence or security agency (Act, s 58)

                The application of the Act to an intelligence or security agency is subject to the modifications set out in Schedule 2.

[5]         After Schedule 1

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Schedule 2        Modification of the Act in its application to an intelligence or security agency

(regulation 27)

             [1]      Section 5

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operational money means public money:

                (a)    that the Minister responsible for an Agency determines is needed to do things consistent with the Agency’s charter; and

               (b)    that is not money needed for staff and general administrative expenditure.

             [2]      Subsection 9 (2)

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                  account

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                  , other than an account that is opened for the purpose of dealing with operational money,

             [3]      Section 11

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                  An official

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                  (1)

             [4]      Section 11

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         (2)   Subsection (1) does not apply to an official who deposits public money in an account other than an official account in accordance with instructions given by the Chief Executive of the official’s Agency.

             [5]      Subection 49 (1)

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                  the Finance Minister’s Orders

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                  an agreement between the Finance Minister and the Minister responsible for the Agency

             [6]      Subsection 49 (2)

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                  Finance Minister’s Orders

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                  agreement

             [7]      Subsection 49 (2)

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                  those Orders

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                  the agreement

             [8]      Subsection 49 (3)

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                  Finance Minister’s Orders

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                  agreement

             [9]      Subsection 49 (3)

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                  those Orders

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                  the agreement

             [10]    Subsection 49 (4)

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                  Finance Minister’s Orders

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                  the agreement

             [11]    Paragraph 57 (2) (a)

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                  Finance Minister’s Orders

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                  an agreement between the Finance Minister and the Minister responsible for the Agency

             [12]    Subsection 57 (3)

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                  Finance Minister’s Orders

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                  agreement

             [13]    Subsection 57 (7)

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                  reports

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                  (other than financial statements that have, or a report that has, details of operational money)

Notes

1.       These regulations amend Statutory Rules 1997 No. 328, as amended by 1998 Nos. 65, 112, 122, 261, 289 and 333.

2.       Made by the Governor-General on 17 March 1999, and notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 24 March 1999.