FIJI

1998 APPROPRIATION ACT, 1997

ACT NO. 20 OF 1997

I assent.

[L.S.]

K.K.T. MARA
President

[24th December 1997]

AN ACT

TO APPROPRIATE A SUM NOT EXCEEDING NINE HUNDRED AND FORTY-ONE MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS TO THE SERVICE OF THE YEAR ENDING THE THIRTY FIRST DAY OF DECEMBER, ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND NINETY EIGHT.

ENACTED by the Parliament of Fiji-

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the 1998 Appropriation Act, 1997.

Appropriation of $941,575,000

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 Eight, any sum or sums not exceeding the sum of Nine Hundred and Forty-One Million, Five Hundred and Seventy-Five Thousand 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	991,100	
2	Office of the Prime Minister	11,896,500	
3	Office of the Attorney-General	3,133,300	
4	Ministry of Finance	35,892,300	
5	Ministry of Fijian Affairs	13,869,400	
6	Ministry of Justice and Home Affairs	92,122,000	
7	Ministry of Labour and Industrial Relations	3,574,900	
8	Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Trade	9,746,000	
9	Office of the Auditor-General	1,542,000	
10	Elections Office	2,258,300	
11	Judicial	5,750,600	
13	Office of the Ombudsman	338,000	
14	Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions	738,000	
15	Ministry of Regional Development & Multi-Ethnic Affairs	8,617,000	
16	Ministry of Information, Women and Culture	1,860,500	
17	Department of Women & Culture	1,199,800	
18	Department of Multi-Ethnic Affairs	2,323,700	
19	Ministry of National Planning	3,015,200	
20	Ministry of Education	152,218,300	
21	University of the South Pacific	20,571,100	
22	Ministry of Health	88,017,400	
23	Ministry of Local Government and Environment	3,814,100	
24	Department of Social Welfare	7,614,400	
25	Ministry of Youth, Employment Opportunities & Sports	7,121,400	
26	Fiji Institute of Technology	8,669,500	
27	Fiji School of Medicine	7,201,200	
30	Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forests	48,645,300	
31	Agricultural Tribunal	164,100	
32	Department of Forests	7,348,500	
33	Ministry of Lands and Mineral Resources	28,856,200	
34	Ministry of Commerce, Industry, Co-operatives and Public Enterprises	10,989,700	
35	Department of Co-operatives	1,751,100	
36	Ministry of Transport and Tourism	15,049,200	
37	Department of Energy	4,459,800	
40	Department of Civil Aviation & Meteorological Services	7,442,900	
41	Ministry of Communications, Works and Energy	122,876,500	
43	Department of Marine	9,291,300	
44	Department of Road Transport	5,560,100	
50	Miscellaneous Services	117,225,300	
51	Pensions, Gratuities and Compassionate Allowances	31,911,000	
	TOTAL	$905,667,000	

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SCHEDULE II

FROM THE LENDING FUND ACCOUNT

		Amount
$	
	Re-current Loans		
			
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 Minister and Members of Parliament	500,000	
			
	Non-Recurrent Loans		
			
1	Loans to Housing Authority	5,000,000	
2	Loan to Fijian Affairs Board	1,500,000	
3	Loan to Fiji Sugar Corporation	8,586,000	
			
	TOTAL	$35,908,000	

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

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

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