FIJI ISLANDS

1999 APPROPRIATION ACT 1998

ACT NO. 55 OF 1998

I assent.

[L.S.]

K. K. T. MARA
President

[18 December 1998]

AN ACT

TO APPROPRIATE A SUM NOT EXCEEDING NINE HUNDRED AND THIRTY FIVE MILLION, FOUR HUNDRED AND SEVENTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS TO THE SERVICE OF THE GOVERNMENT FOR 1999

ENACTED by the Parliament of the Fiji Islands-

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the 1999 Appropriation Act 1998.

Appropriation of $935,417,000

2.-(1) There may be issued from the Consolidated Fund or from other funds of the State and applied to the service of the Government for the year ending 31st December 1999 a sum not exceeding nine hundred and thirty five million, four hundred and seventeen thousand dollars.

(2) The sum mentioned in subsection (1) is appropriated for the purposes specified in the Schedule.

SCHEDULE
(Section 2(2))
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FROM THE OPERATING FUND ACCOUNT

Head No	Ministry/Department	Amount
$000	
			
1 	Office of the President	1,243.0	
2 	Office of the Prime Minister	9,285.6	
3 	Office of the Attorney General	2,922.6	
4 	Ministry of Finance	42,401.7	
5 	Ministry of Fijian Affairs	12,699.7	
6 	Ministry of Justice and Home Affairs	104,179.9	
7 	Ministry of Labour and Industrial Relations	3,347.6	
8 	Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Trade	11,337.6	
9 	Office of the Auditor General	1,419.5	
10 	Elections Office	1,666.6	
11 	Judicial	6,199.4	
13 	Office of the Ombudsman	599.8	
14 	Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions	755.7	
15 	Ministry of Regional Development and Multi-Ethnic Affairs	8,417.1	
16 	Ministry of Information	1,953.6	
17 	Ministry of Women & Culture	1,571.0	
18 	Department of Multi-Ethnic Affairs	2,310.9	
19 	Ministry of National Planning	2,767.0	
20 	Ministry of Education	167,715.0	
21 	University of the South Pacific	20,571.1	
22 	Ministry of Health	88,918.6	
23 	Ministry of Local Government and Environment	4,742.7	
24 	Department of Social Welfare	7,595.8	
25 	Ministry of Youth, Employment Opportunities and Sports	6,949.1	
26 	Fiji Institute of Technology	8,850.9	
27 	Fiji School of Medicine	4,894.8	
30 	Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Forests and ALTA	44,090.9	
31 	Agricultural Tribunal	191.3	
32 	Department of Forests	4,779.1	
33 	Ministry of Lands and Mineral Resources	28,514.2	
34 	Ministry of Commerce, Industry, Co-operatives and Public Enterprises	
11,971.5	
35 	Department of Co-operatives	1,937.5	
36 	Ministry of Transport and Tourism	20,536.6	
37 	Department of Energy	4,307.0	
40 	Department of Civil Aviation and Meteorological Services	3,642.5	
41 	Ministry of Communications, Works and Energy	113,286.8	
43 	Department of Marine	6,874.4	
44 	Department of Road Transport	3,714.3	
50 	Miscellaneous Services	128,846.6	
		_________
$898,009.0
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FROM THE LENDING FUND ACCOUNT

Head No.	Item	Amount $000	
	Recurrent Loans		
			
1	Loans to Public Officers	1,000.0	
2	Production Loans to Farmers	72.0	
3	Loans to Consumer Co-operative Societies	250.0	
4	Loans to Students attending Tertiary Education Institutions	
5,000.0	
4	Loans to Copra Industry for Stabilisation of Earnings	12,500.0	
5	Loans to Private Students	500.0	
7	Loans to Timber Industry for Stabilisation of Earnings	
1,000.0	
8	Loans to Ministers and Members of Parliament	500.0	
		20,822.0	
			
	Non-Recurrent Loans		
			
1	Loan to Housing Authority	3,000.0	
2	Loan to Fijian Affairs	1,500.0	
3	Loan to Fiji Sugar Corporation	8,586.0	
4	Viti Corp	3,500.0	
		16,586.0	
	Total	$37,4080	

Passed by the House of Representatives this 24th day of November 1998.

Passed by the Senate this 8th day of December 1998.

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