REPUBLIC OF FIJI

2017-2018 APPROPRIATION ACT 2017

ACT NO. 22 OF 2017

I assent.
J. K. KONROTE 
President 
[14 July 2017] 
AN ACT
TO APPROPRIATE A SUM OF $3,996,721,026 FOR THE ORDINARY SERVICES OF GOVERNMENT FOR THE FINANCIAL YEAR ENDING 31 JULY 2018
ENACTED by the Parliament of the Republic of Fiji— 
Short title and commencement
1.––(1) This Act may be cited as the 2017-2018 Appropriation Act 2017. 
(2) This Act comes into force on 1 August 2017. 
Appropriation of $3,996,721,026
2. A sum of $3,996,721,026 is to be issued from the Consolidated Fund or other funds of the State, and applied to the ordinary services of the Government for the financial year ending 31 July 2018, and such sum is to be appropriated for the purposes specified in Schedules 1 and 2 and also the 2017-2018 Budget Estimates. 
Government borrowing
3. The Government borrowing for 2017-2018 must not exceed the sum of $716,868,171. 

SCHEDULE 1
(Section 2)
FROM THE OPERATING FUND ACCOUNT	
Head No.	Ministry/Department	Amount	
		$	
1	Office of the President	2,144,646	
2	Office of the Prime Minister	23,980,012	
3	Office of the Attorney General	22,314,501	
4	Ministry of Economy	117,275,358	
5	Ministry of iTaukei Affairs	13,214,374	
6	Ministry of Defence and National Security	5,236,688	
7	Ministry of Employment, Productivity and Industrial Relations	16,486,953	
8	Ministry of Foreign Affairs	43,885,012	
9	Independent Bodies	98,447,599	
13	Independent Commissions	27,040,535`	
14	Ministry of Disaster Management and Meteorological Services	15,178,454	
15	Ministry of Justice	46,721,991	
16	Ministry of Communications	55,363,602	
17	Ministry of Civil Service	69,032,636	
18	Ministry of Rural and Maritime Development	20,480,298	
19	Republic of Fiji Military Forces	96,688,467	
20	Fiji Police Force	148,798,833	
21	Ministry of Education, Heritage and Arts	490,115,671	
22	Ministry of Health and Medical Services	321,245,619	
23	Department of Housing	34,637,159	
24	Ministry of Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation	113,354,138	
25	Ministry of Youth and Sports	23,096,626	
26	Higher Education Institutions	106,499,610	
30	Ministry of Agriculture	86,399,025	
31	Ministry of Fisheries	18,809,217	
32	Ministry of Forests	16,020,889	
33	Ministry of Land and Mineral Resources	42,329,850	
34	Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism	108,383,751	
35	Ministry of Sugar	60,021,026	
36	Ministry of Public Enterprises	17,939,802	
37	Ministry of Local Government and Urban Development	33,927,785	
38	Ministry of Environment	7,336,136	
40	Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport	134,177,953	
41	Water Authority of Fiji	306,942,653	
42	Ministry of Waterways	24,200,027	
43	Fiji Roads Authority	527,548,636	
49	Peacekeeping Missions	79,207,692	
50	Miscellaneous Services	468,978,270	
	TOTAL	3,843,400,496	
SCHEDULE 2
(SECTION 2)
	FROM THE LENDING FUND ACCOUNT	Amount	
		$	
	Recurrent Loans		
1	PSC Scholarship Lending Fund	(300,000)	
2	Housing Authority 	(3,406,000)	
3	Public Rental Board	(912,000)	
4	Fiji Pine Limited	(1,200,000)	
	Total Recurrent Loans	(5,818,000)	
	Non-Recurrent Loans		
1	Tertiary Education Loans Scheme	159,138,530	
			
	Total Non-Recurrent Loans	159,138,530	
			
	TOTAL 	153,320,530	

Passed by the Parliament of the Republic of Fiji this 13th day of July 2017.