Page 1327 - Week 05 - Tuesday, 5 May 2015
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Advice on each instrument’s direction and a statement of reasons is required to be tabled in the Assembly within three sitting days after it is given.
Section 14 of the act allows for the transfer of funds between appropriations. It is endorsed by me and another minister. I table one such instrument today. It transfers a total of $122,000 from payments for expenses on behalf of the territory, comprising $49,000 to capital injection (controlled) and $73,000 to capital injection (territorial) for the Office of the Legislative Assembly.
Section 16 of the Financial Management Act provides that the Treasurer may, by instrument, transfer the responsibility for a service or function from an entity for which an appropriation is made to another entity. I table one such instrument today under this section. It facilitates the transfer of $555,000 in capital injection (controlled) appropriation from the Territory and Municipal Services Directorate to the Chief Minister, Treasury and Economic Development Directorate for capital works projects being undertaken by the ACT Property Group.
Section 16B of the act allows for the Treasurer to authorise an appropriation to be rolled over from one financial year to the next. This package includes two instruments authorised under section 16B. The first transfers undisbursed appropriation for the Health Directorate from the 2013-14 fiscal year to the 2014-15 fiscal year. That includes $2.924 million in net cost of outputs and $15.452 million in capital injection (controlled). The second instrument transfers undisbursed appropriation for the ACT local hospital network from the 2013-14 fiscal year to the 2014-15 fiscal year. In this instance the transfer is $4.373 million in net cost of outputs.
I table one instrument this afternoon under section 17. Section 17 enables variations to appropriations for any increases in existing commonwealth payments by direction of the Treasurer. The territory has received additional commonwealth funding in 2014-15 of $13.08 million of capital injection (controlled) appropriation for the building Australia fund roads—Majura parkway construction national partnership. The increase in commonwealth funding for the 2014-15 fiscal year will be offset by a commensurate reduction of commonwealth funding in the 2015-16 fiscal year.
Section 18 of the FMA provides for the Treasurer to authorise expenditure from the Treasurer’s advance. This package includes one such instrument that provides an increase of $11.029 million in net cost of outputs for the Community Services Directorate to meet cash requirements. Specifically, the supplementary funding is required to meet additional cost pressures associated with supporting additional Disability ACT clients with higher levels of emergency support services, increased workers compensation premiums and extending funds for emergency relief and financial aid in 2015.
Section 19B of the FMA allows, by direction from the Treasurer, for an appropriation to be authorised for any new commonwealth payments where no appropriation has been made in respect of those funds. This package includes one such instrument for the territory receiving an additional $966,000 in grant funding from the commonwealth for the national school chaplaincy program national partnership. This appropriation will provide for pastoral care services in all ACT schools to support students and the broader school community.
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