APPROPRIATION. 13° GEO. V., No. XXXIV. Preamble. Short title. Application of moneys. No. 11 of 1923. AN ACT to appropriate and apply out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund and from Moneys to Credit of the Trust Fund and the General Loan Fund and from the Public Account certain sums to make good the supplies granted for the Service of the Year ending the thirtieth day of June, One thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, and to supplement grants made by the present Parliament during its last Session in adjustment of the Vote "Advance to Treasurer, 1921-22," for charges during the Year ended the 30th day of June, 1922. [Assented to 22nd February, 1923.] MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN,— WE E, Your Majesty's Most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects, the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in Parliament assembled, towards making good the Supply which we have cheerfully granted Your Majesty in this Session of Parliament, have resolved to grant unto Your Majesty the Sums hereinafter mentioned, and do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted: And be it therefore enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia. in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows (that is to say): 1. This Act may be cited as the Appropriation Act, 1922-23. 2. There shall and may be issued and applied, for or towards making good the supply granted to His Majesty for the services of the year ending the thirtieth day of June, One thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, the following sums, that is to say: From the Consolidated Revenue Fund the sum of Two Million Six Hundred and Three Thousand Eight Hundred and Ninety-seven Pounds. From moneys to credit of the Trust Fund, the sum of Seventy-four Thousand Five Hundred and Thirty-eight Pounds. From moneys to credit of the General Loan Fund, the sum of Three Million and Ninety-three Thousand and Fifty Pounds. From the Public Account for Advance to Treasurer the sum of Two Hundred Thousand Pounds. supplies. 3. (1.) All sums granted by this Act, and the Acts men- Appropriation of tioned in Schedule A to this Act, towards making good the Schedule A. Supply granted to His Majesty, that is to say: From the Consolidated Revenue Fund the sum of Four Million Seven Hundred and Ninety-four Thousand One Hundred and Seventeen Pounds. From moneys to credit of the Trust Fund the sum of One Hundred and Forty-one Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty-eight Pounds. From moneys to credit of the General Loan Fund the sum of Four Million and Seven Thousand Four Hundred and Eighty Pounds. From the Public Account for Advance to Treasurer the sum of Five Hundred Thousand Pounds, and Treasurer. (2.) All sums granted by this Act to supplement grants Advance to in confirmation of the expenditure from the vote, "Advance to Treasurer, 1921-22," for charges during the year ended the 30th day of June, 1922, that is to say: From the Consolidated Revenue Fund the sum of One Hundred and Sixty-two Thousand Five Hundred and Fortyeight Pounds Two Shillings and Four Pence. From the General Loan Fund the sum of One Hundred and Sixty-six Thousand Six Hundred and Forty Pounds Three Shillings and One Penny. From the Trust Fund the sum of Four Hundred and Fifty-five Pounds Twelve Shillings and Six Pence, are appropriated and shall be deemed to have been appropriated for the purposes and services expressed in Schedules B, C, D, E, F, G, and H. Schedules B to H. SCHEDULE A. FOR THE SERVICE OF THE YEAR ENDING THE 30TH JUNE, 1923. CONSOLIDATED REVENUE FUND FOR THE SERVICES OF THE YEAR ENDING 30TH JUNE, 1923, AS DETAILED IN THE ESTIMATES OF EXPENDITURE PASSED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY. SCHEDULE C. TRUST FUND FOR THE SERVICES OF THE YEAR ENDING 30TH JUNE, 1923, AS DETAILED IN THE ESTIMATES OF EXPENDITURE PASSED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY. GENERAL LOAN FUND FOR THE SERVICES OF THE YEAR ENDING 30TH JUNE, 1923, AS DETAILED IN THE ESTIMATES OF EXPENDITURE PASSED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY. To be issued, if and when required, from the Public Account, to enable the Treasurer to make advances to public officers, also advances for the Trading Concerns, and to other persons, or for payments of deposits on Contracts, or on account of other Governments, etc. Also to pay expenses of an unforeseen nature, chargeable against the Consolidated Revenue Fund or the General Loan Fund, or the Sale of Government Property Trust Account or the Lands Improvement Loan Fund; such disbursements to be transferred monthly to the respective Votes and Services, and to be shown as excesses thereon or as new items. The appropriation may also include expenditure in excess of the provisions of any Loan Act pending statutory authority for the raising of such moneys, and the appropriation may also include expenditure on works and services pending provision being made in a Loan Act, and such expenditure, to be charged to Loan Suspense Account, to be subsequently submitted to Parliament for specific appropriation. The whole amount to be adjusted (subject as hereinafter provided) not later than 30th June, 1924: Provided that expenditure incurred in reconstruction of Victoria Quay, or in relaying Government railways, may be adjusted over a period of four years from that date- £500,000. |