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This is a Bill, not an Act. For current law, see the Acts databases.
South Australia
Constitution (Appropriation and Supply) Amendment
Bill 2015
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the
Constitution
Act 1934
.
Contents
Part 2—Amendment of Constitution
Act 1934
4Amendment of
section 60—Interpretation
5Amendment of section 62—Power of
Council as to money clauses
63Annual Bills for
appropriation and supply
Schedule 1—Transitional
provision
1Annual Bills for appropriation and
supply
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Constitution (Appropriation and Supply)
Amendment Act 2015.
The commencement and operation of this Act is subject to the operation of
the
Referendum
(Appropriation and Supply) Act 2015
.
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a
specified Act amends the Act so specified.
Part 2—Amendment
of Constitution
Act 1934
4—Amendment
of section 60—Interpretation
(1) Section 60(4), definition of appropriation
Bill—delete the definition
(2) Section 60(4), definition of previously authorised
purpose—delete the definition
5—Amendment
of section 62—Power of Council as to money
clauses
(1) Section 62(2)—delete "Subject to subsection (3) of this section,
the Council" and substitute:
The Council
(2) Section 62(3)—delete subsection (3)
Section 63—delete the section and substitute:
63—Annual Bills for appropriation and
supply
(1) Subject to this
section, if—
(a) the House of Assembly passes a prescribed annual Bill; and
(b) the Legislative Council—
(i) fails to pass the Bill within the period of 1 month after it
is transmitted to the Legislative Council; or
(ii) rejects the Bill; or
(iii) passes the Bill with suggested amendments to which the House of
Assembly does not agree,
the prescribed annual Bill, with amendments (if any) to the Bill certified
by the Speaker to have been suggested by the Legislative Council and agreed to
by the House of Assembly, will be taken to be a Bill that has passed both Houses
of Parliament and will be presented to the Governor for assent (and, on that
assent, will be an Act of the Parliament of South Australia).
(2) If an annual Appropriation Bill or Supply Bill in respect of a
particular financial year has been presented to the Governor for assent in
accordance with
subsection (1)
, that subsection cannot be applied to a further such Bill in respect of
the same financial year (so that the further annual Appropriation Bill or Supply
Bill (as the case may be) cannot be presented to the Governor for assent under
subsection (1)
).
(3) In this section—
annual Appropriation Bill means a Bill (other than a Supply
Bill)—
(a) that appropriates money from the Consolidated Account in respect of a
particular financial year; and
(b) that deals only with such appropriation of such money;
prescribed annual Bill means any of the following Bills
declared by the Speaker, at the time that the Bill is introduced into the House
of Assembly, to be a prescribed annual Bill for the purposes of this
section:
(a) an annual Appropriation Bill;
(b) a Supply Bill;
Supply Bill means a Bill—
(a) that appropriates money from the Consolidated Account in respect of a
particular financial year pending the enactment of the annual Appropriation Bill
in respect of that year; and
(b) that deals only with such appropriation of such money.
Schedule 1—Transitional
provision
1—Annual
Bills for appropriation and supply
Section 63 of the
Constitution
Act 1934
, as enacted by this Act, applies in relation to a prescribed annual Bill
(within the meaning of that section) introduced into the Parliament after the
commencement of this clause.