REPUBLIC OF FIJI

COVID-19 RESPONSE BILL 2020

ACT NO. 1 OF 2020

I assent.
J. K. KONROTE
President
[27 March 2020]
AN ACT
TO APPROPRIATE A SUM OF THREE BILLION, ONE HUNDRED THIRTY SIX MILLION, SEVENTY FIVE THOUSAND, THREE HUNDRED FORTY FIVE DOLLARS FOR THE ORDINARY SERVICES OF GOVERNMENT FOR THE YEAR COMMENCING 1 AUGUST 2019 AND ENDING 31 JULY 2020
ENACTED by the Parliament of the Republic of Fiji -
Short title and commencement
1.––(1) This Act may be cited as the COVID-19 Response Bill 2020.
(2) This Act comes into force on 28 March 2020. 
Appropriation of $3,136,075,345
2. A sum of $3,136,075,345 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 year commencing 1 August 2019 and ending 31 July 2020, and such sum is to be appropriated for the purposes specified in schedules 1 and 2 and also the COVID-19 Response Budget Estimates 2019-2020.
Government borrowing
3. The Government borrowing for 2019-2020 must not exceed the sum of $1,506,957,323.36.
Repeal
4. The 2019-2020 Appropriation Act 2019 is repealed.
SCHEDULE 1
(Section 2)
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FROM THE OPERATING FUND ACCOUNT	
Head No.	Ministry/Department	Amount 
$	
1	Office of the President	2,676,316	
2	Office of the Prime Minister	16,077,143	
3	Office of the Attorney-General	8,029,782	
4	Ministry of Economy	70,572,266	
5	Ministry of iTaukei Affairs	14,077,795	
6	Ministry of Defence and National Security	14,657,862	
7	Ministry of Employment, Productivity and Industrial Relations	10,994,086	
8	Ministry of Foreign Affairs	36,918,150	
9	Independent Bodies	69,369,278	
13	Independent Commissions	30,239,056	
14	Ministry of Disaster Management and Meteorological Services	7,170,848	
15	Ministry of Justice 	39,422,124	
16	Ministry of Communications	38,316,611	
17	Ministry of Civil Service	2,999,827	
18	Ministry of Rural and Maritime Development	14,964,812	
19	Republic of Fiji Military Forces	89,202,300	
20	Fiji Police Force	163,304,501	
21	Ministry of Education, Heritage and Arts	472,851,158	
22	Ministry of Health and Medical Services	347,505,366	
23	Ministry of Housing and Community Development	13,626,030	
24	Ministry of Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation	144,575,876	
25	Ministry of Youth and Sports	16,287,168	
26	Higher Education Institutions	102,691,978	
30	Ministry of Agriculture	61,818,504	
31	Ministry of Fisheries	16,062,814	
Head No.	Ministry/Department	Amount 
$	
32	Ministry of Forests	14,801,990	
33	Ministry of Lands and Mineral Resources	25,356,426	
34	Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism	57,837,948	
35	Ministry of Sugar Industry	112,465,518	
37	Ministry of Local Government	14,106,927	
40	Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport	63,045,227	
41	Water Authority of Fiji	183,019,308	
42	Ministry of Waterways and Environment	21,088,626	
43	Fiji Roads Authority	276,544,054	
49	Peacekeeping Missions	64,969,498	
50	Miscellaneous Services	369,539,170	
	TOTAL	3,007,186,345	

SCHEDULE 2
(Section 2)
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	FROM THE LENDING FUND ACCOUNT	Amount
$	
	Recurrent Loans		
1	PSC Loan Scheme	(162,300)	
2	Housing Authority	(3,192,600)	
3	Public Rental Board	(728,400)	
4	Fiji Pine Limited	          0	
	Total Recurrent Loan 	(4,083,300)	
			
	Non-Recurrent Loan		
1	Tertiary Education Loan Scheme	132,972,300	
	Total Non-Recurrent Loan	132,972,300 	
			
	TOTAL	128,889,000	

Passed by the Parliament of the Republic of Fiji this 27th day of March 2020.