Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00794:section:64a:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00794
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 64A (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 310325–312942

64A  Debit of additional amounts from Account
 (1) The Minister may, in his or her discretion, from time to time, by written instrument, direct the debit from the Account of such amounts as he or she specifies in the direction.
 (2) If the Minister directs, under subsection (1), the debit of a specified amount from the Account, section 12‑320 in Schedule 1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953 does not apply in relation to the debit of that amount. But there must also be debited from the Account such additional amount as would be necessary to discharge any liability for mining withholding tax in accordance with Division 11C of Part III of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 in respect of the first‑mentioned amount. The debit of that additional amount discharges that liability.
 (3) The Minister must, in a direction under subsection (1), specify, in relation to each amount that he or she directs be debited from the Account:
 (a) that the amount is to be taken, for the purposes of this section, to have been debited from the Account in relation to a specified Land Council; or
 (b) that specified amounts that are, in the aggregate, equal to that amount are to be respectively taken, for the purposes of this section, to have been debited from the Account in relation to specified Land Councils.
 (4) If, in consequence of a direction by the Minister under subsection (1) that an amount be debited from the Account, an additional amount is also debited from the Account in accordance with subsection (2), the Minister must, by written instrument, direct, in relation to that additional amount:
 (a) that the additional amount is to be taken, for the purposes of this section, to have been debited from the Account in relation to a specified Land Council; or
 (b) that specified amounts that are, in the aggregate, equal to the additional amount are to be respectively taken for the purposes of this section, to have been debited from the Account in relation to specified Land Councils.
 (5) The Minister must, in specifying under subsection (3) that an amount is to be taken, for the purposes of this section, to have been debited from the Account in relation to a specified Land Council, ensure that the aggregate of that amount and the amount or amounts (if any) specified in a previous direction or previous directions under subsection (1) in relation to that Land Council does not exceed the total of the amounts paid by the Commonwealth, after 30 June 1978, to that Land Council for the purpose of meeting the administrative costs or capital costs of that Land Council.
 (6) An amount that is to be