FIJI ISLANDS

[LEGAL NOTICE NO. 94]

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT ACT
(ACT 17 of 2004)
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Financial (Amendment) Instructions 2009

IN exercise of the powers conferred upon me by section 72 of the Financial Management Act 2004, I hereby make these amendments -

Citation and Commencement
1. This instruction may be cited as the Financial (Amendment) Instructions 2009 and is deemed to have commenced on 1st day of August 2009.

Instruction 9 (1) Amended
2. Instruction 9 sub instruction (1) of the Finance Instruction of 2005 is revoked and replaced -

"9.-(1) For funds placed under requisition that is -

(a) less than $1m, the approval of the Permanent Secretary for Finance must besought before funds can be expended for the purposes identified in the Annual Budget;

(b) more than $1m, the approval of the Minister for Finance must besought before funds can be expended for the purposes identified in the Annual Budget."."

Dated this 1st day of December 2009.

J. V. BAINIMARAMA
Prune Minister and Minister for
Public Service, People's Charter for Change,
Information, Achieves, Finance, National Planning, Sugar,
Provincial Development, Indigenous and Multi Ethnic Affairs