Bill
Supply Bill (No. 1) 2025-2026
passed, as at 2025-03-27. Finance portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Finance
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2025-03-25
- second reading — 2025-03-25
- second reading — 2025-03-25
- third reading — 2025-03-25
- introduced — 2025-03-26
- second reading — 2025-03-26
- second reading — 2025-03-26
- third reading — 2025-03-26
- passed — 2025-03-26
- royal assent — 2025-03-27
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 2025-03-25.
This bill would authorise spending from the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the ordinary annual services of the government.
It would provide about 5/12ths of the estimated 2025-26 annual appropriations for those services, with a larger share for entities like the National Emergency Management Agency that have high early-year spending.
The remaining 7/12ths plus 2025-26 Budget measures would be covered by a separate bill, the Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2025-2026.
- Proposes appropriations from the Consolidated Revenue Fund for ordinary annual services.
- Sets the appropriation amount at broadly 5/12ths of estimated 2025-26 annual appropriations.
- Allows a greater proportion for certain entities with high early-year expenditure or service delivery needs.
The government and its entities, particularly those with high early-year spending such as the National Emergency Management Agency.
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