REPUBLIC OF KIRIBATI
(No. 1 of 1999)

I assent,

(Sgd: T. Tito)
Beretitenti
02/03/1999

AN ACT TO AUTHORISE APPROPRIATION OF MONIES OUT OF THE CONSOLIDATED FUND FOR RECURRENT EXPENDITURE FOR THE SERVICE OF THE YEAR ENDING 31 DECEMBER 1999

Commencement:
1999

MADE by the Maneaba ni Maungatabu and assented to by the Beretitenti.

Short title and commencement

1. This Act may be cited as the Appropriation Act 1999 and shall come into operation on 1 January 1999.

Authorisation of issue of $63,613,348 from the Consolidated Fund

2. The issue from the Consolidated Fund is hereby authorised of a sum of $63,613,348 to be applied for recurrent expenditure to the service of the year ending 31 December 1999.

Appropriation

3. The sum specified in section 2 shall be appropriated for the supply of the Heads of Expenditure in Column 1 of the Schedule annexed to this Act in the sums respectively specified in relation thereto in Column 2 of the Schedule.

Transfer of functions

4. Where after the commencement of this Act and before 1st January 2000 a function is transferred from one Ministry to another the authority conferred by sections 2 and 3 to issue and apply monies out of the Consolidated Fund extends to the issue and application of monies in respect of that function by that other Ministry.

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SCHEDULE

Column 1								Column 2
Head of Expenditure						Additional Expenditure
									Authorised
									 $

02	Contributions to Development Fund			 	 5,000,000
03	Contributions to the RERF					 5,000,000
10	Office of the Beretitenti					 1,046,851
11	Judiciary							 685,000
12	Police and Prisons						 3,425,231
13	Public Service Commission					 99,000
14	Ministry of Foreign Affairs					 597,032
15	Ministry of Home Affairs & Rural Development	 	 1,465,203
16	Ministry of Environment & Social Development		 856,426
17	Maneaba ni Maungatabu				 	 1,136,328
18	Ministry of Commerce, Industry & Tourism			 842,659
19	Kiribati National Audit Office				 535,380
20	Office of the Attorney General				 291,000
21	Ministry of Natural Resource Development		 	 2,448,242
22	Ministry of Health						 7,886,000 
23	Ministry of Education, Training & Technology		 11,608,003
24	Ministry of Information, Communication & Transport	 1,910,000
25	Ministry of Finance & Economic Planning			 1,711,665
27	Ministry of Works and Energy				 2,248,010
28	Ministry of Labour, Employment & Cooperatives		 1,513,585
29	Ministry of Line & Phoenix Group				 2,228,180
30	Debt Servicing						 200,000
31	Other Expenses						 10,879,553
				TOTAL				 63,613,348

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THE APPROPRIATION ACT 1999

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

1.	This Act charges upon the Consolidated Fund a sum, which is required for recurrent expenditure for the year ending 31 December 1999.

2.	The Schedule to the Act specifies the Heads of Expenditure for which the sum, in the aggregate, is appropriated, and in the case of each one of the heads of expenditure, the particular amount, out of the total, appropriated to it.

3.	The Heads of Expenditure specified in the Schedule are those which are contained in the Estimates for the financial year ending on 31 December 1999.

4.	This Act is presented to the Maneaba ni Maungatabu in accordance with the requirements of section 109(1) and (2) of the Constitution.

Michael N. Takabwebwe
Attorney General
16 February 1999