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This Determination establishes the following components of the Commercial Activities Fund: Auscript; Legal Practice; Artbank; Business Services Trust Account; Removals; Australian Government Publishing Service; Australian Government Analytical Laboratory; Rehabilitation Services Reserve; Public Sector Management Course; Australian Valuation Office; and Royal Australian Mint and Coinage.
Administered by: Finance
General Comments: This Determination takes effect on the day immediately after the last day on which a House of Parliament could have passed a resolution disallowing it (see s 22(4) of the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997).

A number of Special Accounts established by this Determination were renamed by the Financial Management Legislation Amendment Act 1999 - Determination Renaming Special Accounts for the purposes of the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997 (27/06/1999) (see FRLI No. F2006B11562).

The following Special Accounts established by this Determination have been abolished: Legal Practice Account (see FRLI No. F2005L03794), Artbank Account (see FRLI No. F2006L02540), Business Services Trust Account (see FRLI No. F2006L03369), Public Sector Management Course Account (see FRLI No. F2006B11563), Australian Valuation Office Account (see FRLI No. F2006L02900) and Royal Australian Mint and Coinage Account (see FRLI No. F2006L01468). Auscript (Commonwealth Reporting Service) and Rehabilitation Services Account (see FRLI No. F2006B11554).
Exempt from sunsetting by the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997 s 20(6)
Registered 17 Nov 2006
Date of repeal 19 Mar 2014
Repealed by Finance (Spent and Redundant Instruments) Repeal Regulation 2014

SECTION 21 OF THE FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY ACT 1997

 

INITIAL DETERMINATION TO ESTABLISH COMPONENTS OF THE COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES FUND

 

Whereas subitems (2), (3), (4) and (5) of Clause 4 of Schedule 4 to the Audit (Transitional and Miscellaneous) Amendment Act 1997 provide for money in an account in the old Trust Fund established under the Audit Act 1901, and existing immediately before the commencement of Schedule 4, to be transferred to a component of the Reserved Money Fund or Commercial Activities Fund, as appropriate, established for the purpose,

 

I, Graham Millar, Branch Manager, Government Accounts, pursuant to powers delegated to me by the Finance Chief Executive under section 53 of the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997, determine, for the purposes of section 21 of the Act, that the Commercial Activities set out in the first column of the attached Schedule be established as components of the Commercial Activities Fund.

 

I further determine that:

 

(a)      amounts of the following kinds may be transferred from the Consolidated Revenue Fund to a relevant component:

 

·          All money appropriated by law for the spending purposes a relevant component.

·          All money received in consideration for any service, benefit, activity, transaction or other matter which is congruent with the spending purposes of a relevant component; and,

 

(b)     the purposes for which amounts may be debited to each component are as specified in the second column of the attached Schedule.

 

 

 

Graham Millar

Delegate of the Finance Chief Executive

31 DEC 1997


ATTACHMENT

COMPONENTS OF THE COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES FUND

 

TITLE

EXPENDITURE PURPOSE

 

 

Attorney-General's Department

 

AUSCRIPT -Commonwealth Reporting Service

For the expenditure related to the operations of the Commonwealth Reporting Service.

Legal Practice

For expenditure related to: the provision of legal and law-related services; operations and activities related or incidental to provision of legal and law related services; the provision of support services and facilities, including to agencies which are the administrative responsibility of the Attorney-General.

 

 

Department of Communications and the Arts

 

Artbank

For expenditure on programs and operations of ARTBANK.

 

 

Department of Finance and Administration

 

Business Services Trust Account

For expenditure relating to:

(a)          (i)  the provision of services and matters incidental thereto being in the field of transport, printing, publishing, procurement, disposal, protection, guarding, security, storage, warehousing, packaging, analytical testing, laboratory valuation, construction project management, equipment management contract administration, real property agency, property management, surveying, land information, construction, construction design, information technology, establishment and facilities management, administrative, and related services, and any combination, co-ordination or arrangement of the above mentioned services to the Commonwealth or to a Commonwealth body or to a company over which the Commonwealth or a Commonwealth body is able to exercise control, inside or outside Australia.

(ii)    the provision of services referred to in (i) above and matters incidental thereto, to any other person or persons, inside or outside Australia.

(b)         For expenditure relating to each of the following trust accounts pending its closure Australian Government Analytical Laboratory Trust Account; Purchasing and Sales Group Trust Account; Australian Government Services Trust Account; Australian Protective Service Trust Account; Australian Property Service Trust Account; Transport and Storage Group Trust Account; Australian Valuation Office Trust Account; Australian Survey and Land Information Group Trust Account;

(c)          For expenditure comprising payments of moneys to the Consolidated Revenue Fund other than payment of a type expressly required to be paid to that fund under legislation.


ATTACHMENT

COMPONENTS OF THE COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES FUND

 

TITLE

EXPENDITURE PURPOSE

 

 

Department of Finance and Administration (Continued)

 

 

 

Removals

A.                 For expenditure relating to:

(i)                  the provision of services (which may include the provision of advice, training, material, works) and other matters incidental thereto in relation to relocation services to the extent that these activities meet the parameters determined by government; and

(ii)                 obligations of the Business Services Trust Account insofar as they relate to the activities in (i).

B.                  For expenditure comprising payments of moneys to the Consolidated Revenue Fund other than payments of the type expressly required to be paid to that Fund under legislation.

Australian Government Publishing Service

A.                 For expenditure relating to:

(i)                  the provision of services (which may include the provision of advice, training, material, works) and other matters incidental thereto in relation to the management, production and dissemination of information of the Parliament and the government to the extent that these activities meet the parameters determined by government; and

(ii)                 obligations of the Business Services Trust Account insofar as they relate to the activities in (i).

B.                   For expenditure comprising payments of moneys to the Consolidated Revenue Fund other than payments of the type expressly required to be paid to that Fund under legislation.


ATTACHMENT

COMPONENTS OF THE COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES FUND

 

TITLE

EXPENDITURE PURPOSE

Department of Industry. Science and Tourism

 

Australian Government Analytical Laboratory

A.               For expenditure relating to:

(i)                the provision of services (which may include the provision of advice, training, material, works) and other matters incidental thereto in relation to analytical testing and laboratory to the extent that these activities meet the parameters determined by government; and

(ii)               obligations of the Business Services Trust Account insofar as they relate to the activities in (i).

B.                For expenditure comprising payments of moneys to the Consolidated Revenue Fund other than payments of the type expressly required to be paid to that Fund under legislation.

 

 

Department of Health & Family Services

 

Rehabilitation Services Reserve

 

For expenditure to the operation of the Commonwealth Rehabilitation Service

 

 

Department of the Prime Minister & Cabinet

 

Public Sector Management Course

For expenditure relating to the development, delivery, evaluation and review of the Public Sector Management Course.

 

 

 

Department of the Treasury

 

Australian Valuation Office

A.               For expenditure relating to:

(i)                the provision of services (which may include the provision of advice, training, material, works) and other matters incidental thereto in relation to the valuation of property and assets and land economic services to the extent that these activities meet the parameters determined by government; and

(ii)               repayment of capital funds, profit, royalties, interest, seigniorage and related transfers.

B.                For expenditure comprising payments of moneys to the Consolidated Revenue Fund other than payments of the type expressly required to be paid to that Fund under legislation.

Royal Australian Mint and Coinage

(i)                Payments for goods and services and salaries, wages and all other expenses incurred for the production, supply, sale and distribution of coinage, medals, dies, tokens, plaques and other like items, and

(ii)               Repayment of capital funds and payment of moneys in excess of requirements to the Consolidated Revenue Fund.