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ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGES
(CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) ACT 1978

No. 36 of 1978

An Act to amend certain Acts in consequence of certain administrative changes, and to provide for related matters.

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:

Short title
1. This Act may be cited as the Administrative Changes (Consequential Provisions) Act 1978.

Commencement
2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Amendment of Acts
3. (1) The Acts specified in Schedule 1 are amended by omitting from the provisions of those Acts specified in that Schedule "Treasurer" (wherever occurring) and substituting "Minister for Finance".
(2) The Acts specified in Schedule 2 are amended by omitting from the provisions of those Acts specified in that Schedule "Treasurer" (wherever occurring) and substituting "Minister".
(3) The Acts specified in Schedule 3 are amended as set out in that Schedule.

Amendments of Public Service Act
4. Schedules 2 and 3 to the Public Service Act 1922 are repealed and the Schedules set out in Schedule 4 to this Act are substituted.

Amendments of sections 60 and 62b of the Audit Act
5. The Audit Act 1901 is amended—
     (a) by omitting from section 60 "separate account shall be kept in the Treasury to be called the Trust Fund" and substituting "separate account, to be called the Trust Fund, shall be kept"; and
     (b) by omitting sub-section (2) of section 62b and substituting the following sub-section:
     "(2) The Minister and his successors in office shall, for the purposes of the investment of any moneys in pursuance of this section, be deemed to be a corporation by the name of 'The Minister for Finance of the Commonwealth', and any securities or deposits taken or made in pursuance of this section may be taken or made by him in his corporate name.".

Saving of certain actions taken by Treasurer under Audit Act
6. (1) In this section—
     (a) a reference to a prescribed provision of the Audit Act 1901 shall be read as a reference to section 16 or 18, sub-section 20(1) or 21(1), section 21a, sub-section 22(1) or (2), 24(2), 27(2) or 28(1), section 29, sub-section 34(1), section 36a or 38, subsection 41d(1) or section 58, 60 or 62a of that Act;
     (b) a reference to taking any action shall be read as a reference to doing any act or thing (whether by way of making, granting or issuing an instrument or otherwise), and includes, without limiting the generality of the expression, a reference to making an appointment, making a decision or determination, establishing a trust account, establishing an office, investing moneys, giving an authorization,