Bill
Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2021-2022
passed, as at 2022-04-01. Finance portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Finance
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2022-02-10
- second reading — 2022-02-10
- second reading — 2022-02-15
- other — 2022-02-15
- second reading — 2022-02-16
- second reading — 2022-02-17
- other — 2022-02-17
- third reading — 2022-03-29
- introduced — 2022-03-30
- second reading — 2022-03-30
- second reading — 2022-03-30
- second reading — 2022-03-30
- third reading — 2022-03-30
- passed — 2022-03-30
- royal assent — 2022-04-01
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2022-02-10.
This bill would authorise extra government spending for the current financial year, on top of amounts already approved by earlier appropriation laws.
The money would come from the Consolidated Revenue Fund and be allocated to the ordinary annual services of the government, as required by the Australian Constitution.
The bill is one of two Additional Estimates Appropriation Bills, with the other covering non-ordinary annual services, and details are in the Portfolio Additional Estimates Statements.
- The bill proposes additional appropriations from the Consolidated Revenue Fund for ordinary annual services.
- It separates these appropriations from other types of appropriations, as the Constitution requires.
- It works alongside the Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2021-2022 to cover additional estimates.
The government and its agencies that receive the additional funding.
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