FIJI

1996 APPROPRIATION ACT, 1995

ACT NO. 21 OF 1995

I assent.

[L.S.]

K. K. T. MARA
President

[19 December 1995]

AN ACT

TO APPROPRIATE A SUM NOT EXCEEDING SEVEN HUNDRED FIFTY NINE MILLION AND SIX HUNDRED FORTY SIX THOUSAND AND FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS TO THE SERVICE OF THE YEAR ENDING THE THIRTY FIRST DAY OF DECEMBER, ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND NINETY SIX.

ENACTED by the Parliament of Fiji -

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the 1996 Appropriation Act, 1995.

Appropriation of $759,646,400

2.-(1) There shall be issued from the Consolidated Fund, and other funds of Fiji, and applied to the service of the year ending, the thirty first day of December, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Ninety Six, any sum or sums not exceeding the sum of Seven Hundred Fifty Nine Million and Six Hundred Forty Six Thousand and Four Hundred dollars, for defraying the charges of the Government of Fiji for such period.

(2) The said amount shall be appropriated as set out in the Schedules.

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SCHEDULE I

FROM THE OPERATING FUND ACCOUNT

Head No.	Ministry/Department	Amount
$	
1.	Office of the President	853,500	
2. 	Office of the Prime Minister	9,694,900	
3.	Office of the Attorney-General and Minister for Justice	3,359,000	
4.	Ministry of Finance and Economic Development 	35,700,800	
5.	Ministry of Fijian Affairs	12,787,900	
6.	Ministry of Home Affairs and Immigration	85,662,000	
7:	Ministry of Labour and Industrial Relations	2,322,000	
8. 	Ministry of Foreign Affairs	11,525,600	
9.	Office of the Auditor-General	958,200	
10.	Elections Office	485,700	
11.	Judicial	5,101,600	
12.	Legislature	5,531,300	
13.	Office of the Ombudsman	248,600	
14. 	Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions	705,300	
15.	Ministry of Regional Development and Multi-Ethnic Affairs	8,718,700	
16.	Ministry of Information, Broadcasting and Telecommunications 	1,793,600	
17.	Department of Women & Culture	1,149,300	
18.	Department of Multi-Ethnic Affairs	1,756,200	
20. 	Ministry of Education, Women, Culture, Science and Technology	128,093,900	
21.	University of the South Pacific	20,695,100	
22.	Ministry of Health and Social Welfare	79,118,700	
23.	Ministry of Local Government and Environment	4,290,700	
24.	Department of Social Welfare	6,793,200	
25.	Ministry of Youth, Employment Opportunities and Sports	4,835,700	
26.	Fiji Institute of Technology	6,396,600	
30.	Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forests	25,265,400	
31.	Agricultural Tribunal	161,000	
32.	Department of Forests	8,246,200	
33.	Ministry of Lands, Mineral Resources and Energy	20,607,900	
34.	Ministry of Commerce, Industry, Trade and Public Enterprises	6,835,100	
35.	Department of Co-operatives	1,797,200	
36.	Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation	7,511,000	
37.	Department of Energy	2,144,600	
40.	Department of Civil Aviation and Meteorological Services	7,488,500	
41.	Ministry of Public Works, Infrastructure and Transport	106,294,200	
43.	Department of Marine	9,458,000	
44.	Department of Road Transport	4,546,400	
50.	Miscellaneous Services	56,288,400	
51.	Pensions, Gratuities and Compassionate Allowances	30,502,400	
	TOTAL	725,724,400	

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SCHEDULE II

FROM THE LENDING FUND ACCOUNT

		Amount
$	
1.	Loans to Public Officers	1,000,000	
2.	Production Loans to Farmers	72,000	
3.	Loans to Consumer Co-operative Societies	250,000	
4.	Loans to Copra Industry for Stabilisation of Earnings	12,500,000	
5.	Loans to Students attending Tertiary Education Institutions in Fiji	5,000,000	
6.	Loans to Private Students	500,000	
7.	Loans to Timber Industry for Stabilisation of Earnings	1,000,000	
8.	Loans to Ministers and Members of Parliament	500,000	
9.	Loans to Fiji Post and Telecommunications Limited	2,600,000	
10.	Loans to Housing Authority	9,000,000	
11.	Loans to Fijian Affairs Board	1,500,000	
	TOTAL	33,922,000	

Passed by the House of Representatives this thirtieth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand, nine hundred and ninety-five.

Passed by the Senate this twelfth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand, nine hundred and ninety-five.

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