REPUBLIC OF KIRIBATI
(No. 1 of 1996)

I assent,

(Sgd) T. Tito
Beretitenti
3/01/1996

AN ACT TO AUTHORISE APPROPRIATION OF MONIES OUT OF THE
CONSOLIDATED FUND FOR RECURRENT EXPENDITURE FOR THE SERVICE OF THE YEAR ENDING 31 DECEMBER 1996

Commencement:
1996

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 1996 and shall be deemed to have come into operation on 1 January 1996.

Authorisation of issue of $51,546,238 from the Consolidated Fund

2. The issue from the Consolidated Fund is hereby authorised of a sum of $51,546,238 to be applied for recurrent expenditure to the service of the year ending 31 December 1996.

Appropriation

3. The sum specified in Section 2 shall be appropriated for the supply of the Heads of Expenditure specified in Column I 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 1996 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

Schedule I								Column 2
Head of Expenditure						Expenditure Authorised

02	Contribution to Development Fund					3,465,903
10	Office of the Beretitenti						   881,103
11	Judiciary								   729,435
12	Police and Prisons							3,355,198
13	Public Service Commission						     95,656
14	Foreign Affairs							   787,111
15	Home Affairs and Rural Development				3,401,062
16	Environment and Social Development				1,142,063
17	Maneaba ni Maungatabu						1,014,764
18	Commerce, Industry and Tourism					   803,869
19	Kiribati National Audit Office					   441,945
20	Office of the Attorney General					   233,433
21	Natural Resources Development					2,775,556
22	Health and Family Planning						6,703,453
23	Education Training and Technology				          11,178,861
24	Information, Communication and Transport				3,124,775
25	Finance and Economic Planning					4,402,280
27	Works and Energy							2,126,984
28	Labour, Employment and Cooperatives				2,005,932
29	Line and Phoenix Development					2,876,855
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			TOTAL					           51,546,238

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APPROPRIATION ACT 1996

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

1. This Act seeks to charge upon the Consolidated Fund the sums required for the
recurrent expenditure for the year ending on 31 December, 1996.

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 1996.

4. This Act is presented in accordance with the provisions of section 109(l) and (2) of the Constitution.

Michael Neaua Takabwebwe
Attorney General
18 December 1995