This Act is the Appropriation (2004/05 Estimates) Act 2004.

This Act comes into force on the day after the date on which it receives the Royal assent.

This Act (except section 10) relates to the financial year ending with 30 June 2005.

The purpose of this Act is to—

• (a) authorise the Crown to spend public money and to incur expenses and liabilities during the financial year ending with 30 June 2005 by appropriating public money, expenses, and liabilities for that financial year; and

• (b) authorise the Crown to spend public money and to incur expenses during the period of 3 financial years from 2004/05 to 2006/07 by appropriating public money and expenses in relation to the provision of funding to support and lift the capacity of regions in delivering economic development programmes and initiatives.

(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—

(2) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, benefit, borrowing expenses, capital contribution, class of outputs, cost, Crown, department, expenses, financial year, liability, Mode B, Office of Parliament, other expenses, outputs, public money, and Vote have the meanings given to them by section 2(1) of the Public Finance Act 1989.

(1) Expenses may be incurred in relation to the category of other expenses specified in column 3 of Schedule 3 during the period specified in column 4 of that schedule against that category of other expenses.

(2) The expenses to which subsection (1) relates include the expenses that have been incurred under any Imprest Supply Act passed in relation to this year.

(3) Public money, including that spent under any Imprest Supply Act passed in relation to this year, may be spent for the purpose of meeting the expenses incurred under subsection (1).

(4) The expenses to which subsection (1) relates are appropriated—

• (a) for the category of other expenses against which the amount of that expense is shown in column 5 of Schedule 3:

• (b) during the period specified in column 4 of that schedule against that category of other expenses.

(1) The classes of outputs that are subject to section 32A of the Public Finance Act 1989 are listed in Schedule 5.

(2) The Minister responsible for each Vote containing an appropriation for a class of outputs listed in Schedule 5 must, in accordance with section 32A of the Public Finance Act 1989, prepare and present to the House of Representatives a report in relation to each of those classes of outputs.