Australian Crime Commission Amendment (National Policing Information) Act 2016 (45 of 2016)

Schedule 1   Amendment of the Australian Crime Commission Act 2002

Australian Crime Commission Act 2002

32   After section 59B

Insert:

59C National Policing Information Systems and Services Special Account

(1) The National Policing Information Systems and Services Special Account is continued in existence.

Note: The Account was established by Financial Management and Accountability Determination 2006/07 - National Policing Information Systems and Services Special Account Establishment 2006.

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

59D Credits to the Account

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

(a) amounts paid to the ACC by way of charge imposed by the Charges Act;

(b) amounts received by way of fees referred to in section 15 of this Act;

(c) any other amounts received by the ACC in connection with the performance of national policing information functions.

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.

59E Purposes of the Account

The purposes of the Account are as follows:

(a) paying for scoping, developing, procuring, implementing and operating information technology systems and services in connection with the national policing information functions;

(b) paying or discharging the costs, expenses and other obligations incurred by the Commonwealth in the performance of the national policing information functions;

(c) paying any remuneration and allowances payable to any person under this Act in relation to the national policing information functions;

(d) meeting the expenses of administering the Account;

(e) repaying to a State all or part of an amount received from the State in connection with the performance of national policing information functions, if it is not required for a purpose for which it was paid;

(f) paying refunds in accordance with section 15A;

(g) reducing the balance of the Account (and therefore the available appropriation for the Account) without making a real or notional payment.

Note: See section 80 of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 (which deals with special accounts).