REPUBLIC OF FIJI

Financial Management (Revised Budget Amendment) Act 2022

ACT NO. 13 OF 2022

I assent.
W. KATONIVERE
	President
[25 March 2022]
AN ACT
TO AMEND THE FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT ACT 2004
ENACTED by the Parliament of the Republic of Fiji—
Short title and commencement
1.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Financial Management (Revised Budget Amendment) Act 2022.
(2) This Act comes into force on 1 April 2022.
(3) In this Act, the Financial Management Act 2004 is referred to as the "Principal Act".
Section 10 amended
2. Section 10 of the Principal Act is amended by deleting subsection (3) and inserting the following new subsections—
	"(3) Notwithstanding subsection (2) and the provisions of the Trustee Act 1966, upon the dissolution of a trust, any trust money remaining, that is unclaimed for a period of one year after having become repayable to the depositor or payable to any other person entitled to the trust money, is, together with any interest, deemed to be public money and must be paid into the Consolidated Fund.
	(4) Notwithstanding subsection (2) and the provisions of the Trustee Act 1966, if a budget sector agency is unable to distribute money that is held by the budget sector agency on trust because the budget sector agency does not know—
	(a)	who is, or may be, entitled to the trust money;
	(b)	whether any person who is, or may be, entitled to the trust money is, or at any material date was, in existence;
	(c)	whether any or all of the persons who are members of any class that is, or may be, entitled to the trust money are, or at any material date were, in existence; or
	(d)	whether any such person in paragraphs (b) and (c) is alive or dead or where he or she is to be found, 
	the trust money is, together with any interest, deemed to be public money and must be paid into the Consolidated Fund.
	(5) If any person claims any trust money which has been deemed to be public money under this section, and establishes a claim to the satisfaction of the permanent secretary responsible for finance, the money must be paid to that person out of the Consolidated Fund, without further appropriation than this Act.
	(6) Other money within the meaning of this Act may, subject to the Finance Instructions, be paid into the Consolidated Fund.".
Consequential amendment
3. Section 7 of the Financial Management (Amendment) Act 2021 is deleted.

Passed by the Parliament of the Republic of Fiji this 25th day of March 2022.