Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NATIONAL ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION COUNCIL ACT 1994 - SECT 54

    There must be credited to the Account amounts equal to the following:

  (a)   amounts received by the Commonwealth from the States or Territories for the purposes of the Account;

  (b)   amounts appropriated by the Parliament for the purposes of the Account;

  (c)   amounts received by the Commonwealth in relation to performing any functions, or exercising any of the Council's powers, under this Act;

  (d)   amounts of any gifts given or bequests made for the purposes of the Account;

  (e)   interest received by the Commonwealth from the investment of amounts debited from the Account;

  (f)   amounts received by the Commonwealth in relation to property paid for with amounts debited from the Account.

Note:   An Appropriation Act may contain a provision to the effect that, if any of the purposes of a special account is a purpose that is covered by an item in the Appropriation Act (whether or not the item expressly refers to the special account), then amounts may be debited against the appropriation for that item and credited to that special account.