Revenue Accounts Financing Act 120 of 1984

Revenue Accounts Financing Act, 1984 (No. 120 of 1984)

Act

• to provide for the crediting, as a charge against the State Revenue Account of the other Revenue Accounts of the State Revenue Fund with a certain amount for the financial year ending 31 March1986;
• to authorize a meinber of a Ministers' Council to impose levies on services; and
• to provide for Incidental matters.

(English text signed by the State President.)
(Assented to 12 July 1984.)

BE IT ENACTED by the State President and the House of Assembly of the Republic of South Africa, as follows:-

Definitions.

1. In this Act "the principal Act" means the Exchequer and Audit Act, 1975 (Act No. 66 of 1975), and, unless the context indicates otherwise, every word or expression to which in that Act a meaning has been assigned, bears the meaning so assigned.

Amount with which Revenue Accounts shall be credlted in respect of the financial year ending 31 March 1986.

2. (1) A Revenue Account referred to in section 2 (1) (b) of the principal Act shall be credited, as a charge against the State Revenue Account in respect of the financial year ending 31 respect of financ1al March 1986 Wlth a sum of money equal to the sum appropriated by an appropriation Act or any other law in respect of the financial year which ended on 31 March 1985 for the requirements of the State in connection with the administration of matters which on 1 April 1985 are matters for which that Revenue Account has been established, less-

(a) a sum so appropriated for a service which is not carried on during the first-mentioned financial year or, in the case of a service which is carried on in part during that financial year, a sum equal to the difference between the sum appropriated for that service in the last-mentioned financial year and a sum necessary to so carry on such service; and

(b) a sum determined by the Minister of Finance after consultation with the member of the Ministers' Council to whom the administration of the financial affairs of the population group of which the members of the Ministers' Council are members has been assigned which shall be equal to the expected revenue, excluding levies on services imposed under section 3, to the credit of that Revenue Account in that financial year out of payments for services rendered.

(2) The Minister of Finance shall as soon as possible after 1 April 1985-

(a) calculate the sum of money appropriated as contemplated in subsection (1) in connection with matters for which a vote has been established for the purposes of an appropriation Act whereby the money in the State Revenue Fund representing the sum with which the Revenue Account has been credited under subsection (1) is required to be appropriated for the financial year ending 31 March 1986; and 

(b) furnish the member of the Ministers' Council referred to in subsection (1) (b) with such particulars as that member may require in connection with that sum of money.

(3) The money in the State Revenue Fund representing a sum of money with which a Revenue Account has been credited under subsection (1) shall not be appropriated by an appropriation Act if any sum specified in respect of a vote in the schedule to such an appropriation Act is less than the sum calculated under subsection (2) (a), less a sum (if any) deducted under subsection (1) (a) in respect of a service relating to that vote.

Imposition of levies on services rendered.

3. A member of a Ministers' Council to whom the administration of the financial affairs of the population group of which the members of the Ministers' Council are members has been assigned, may by notice in the Gazette impose levies, over and above payments (if any) for services rendered by or on behalf of a department of State administered by a ·member of that Ministers' Council, on those services for the purpose of meeting expenditure connected with those services under such circumstances and on such conditions as the House of Parliament of which the members are of the same population group as that member may by resolution approve.

Short title and commencement.

4. This Act shall be called the Revenue Accounts Financing Act, 1984, and shall come into operation on 1 April 1985.