Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AUSTRALIAN RADIATION PROTECTION AND NUCLEAR SAFETY ACT 1998 - SECT 56

  (1)   There is continued in existence the ARPANSA Account.

Note:   The Account was established by subsection   5(3) of the Financial Management Legislation Amendment Act 1999 .

  (2)   The Account is a special account for the purposes of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 .

  (3)   Amounts equal to the following must be credited to the Account:

  (a)   amounts received by the Commonwealth under the Licence Charges Act;

  (b)   fees received by the Commonwealth under section   34;

  (c)   amounts received by the Commonwealth in connection with the performance of the CEO's functions under this Act or the regulations;

  (d)   interest received by the Commonwealth from the investment of an amount standing to the credit of the Account;

  (e)   money received by the Commonwealth in relation to property paid for after a debit of the Account in respect of an amount equal to the purchase price of the property;

  (f)   amounts recovered by the Commonwealth under subsection   41(7), to the extent that they are referable to costs debited from the Account;

  (g)   amounts of any gifts given or bequests made for the purposes of the Account.

Note:   An Appropriation Act provides for amounts to be credited to a special account if any of the purposes of the special account is a purpose that is covered by an item in the Appropriation Act.

  (4)   The purposes of the Account are to make payments:

  (a)   to further the object of this Act (as set out in section   3); and

  (b)   otherwise in connection with the performance of the CEO's functions under this Act or the regulations.