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to be paid to a person by the Commonwealth by way of periodical payments,
be treated as properly payable notwithstanding that the amount is, or the amounts are, not payable in pursuance of the law or under a legal liability, but this sub-section does not authorize a payment or payments otherwise than out of moneys that are lawfully available for the purpose.
"(2) An authorized person shall not give a direction under sub-section (1) in respect of an amount exceeding $25,000 proposed to be paid to a person as a single amount, or in respect of amounts aggregating more than $5,000 per year proposed to be paid to a person by way of periodical payments, unless he has considered a report concerning the proposed payment, or proposed periodical payments, furnished to him by a Committee consisting of the Secretary to the Department of Finance, the Secretary to the Department of Administrative Services and the Comptroller-General of Customs.
"(3) The Minister may appoint a person to be a deputy of the person for the time being holding, or performing the duties of, an office specified in sub-section (2).
"(4) Where the person for the time being holding, or performing the duties of, an office specified in sub-section (2) is, at any time, unable to act as a member of the Committee referred to in that sub-section, a deputy of that person may act as a member of that Committee on his behalf and shall, while so acting, be deemed to be a member of that Committee in place of that person.
"(5) The regulations may make provisions for and in relation to the conduct of the business of, and the convening and conduct of meetings of, the Committee referred to in sub-section (2).
"(6) In this section, 'authorized person' means the Minister or an officer appointed by the Minister to be an authorized person for the purposes of this section.".

Certain amounts deemed appropriated
26. Section 35 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting sub-section (4) and substituting the following sub-section:
"(4) Without limiting the generality of sub-sections (1), (2) and (3), where an amount that is, or the total of amounts that are, specified in an item, subdivision or division in a Schedule to an Appropriation Act for a financial year is expressed to be—
      (a) for payment to the credit of a Trust Account (in this sub-section referred to as the 'replacement Trust Account'); and
      (b) less an amount that is described as the unrequired balance, or the unrequired part of the balance, of another Trust Account (in this sub-section referred to as the 'superseded Trust Account'),
then—
      (c) an amount equal to the amount referred to in