REPUBLIC OF KIRIBATI
(No. 25 of 1997)

I assent,

(Sgd:  T. Tito)
Beretitenti
1998

AN ACT TO AUTHORISE APPROPRIATION OF MONIES OUT OF THE CONSOLIDATED FUND FOR RECURRENT EXPENDITURE FOR THE SERVICE OF THE YEAR ENDING 31 DECEMBER 1998

Commencement: 1998

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 1997, and shall come into operation on 1 January 1998.

Authorisation of issue of $50,307,808 from the Consolidated Fund

2. The issue from the Consolidated Fund is hereby authorised of a sum of $50,307,808 to be applied for recurrent expenditure to the service of the year ending 31 December 1998.

Appropriation

3. The sum specified in Section 2 shall be appropriated for supply of the Heads of Expenditure specified 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 31st December 1998 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 1
Head of Expenditure 	Column 2
Expenditure Authorised	

02      Contribution to Development Fund	
3,000,000	

10      Office of the Beretitenti	
949,273	

11      Judiciary	
675,303	

12      Police and Prisons	
3,306,797	

13      Public Service Commission	
88,453	

14      Foreign Affairs 	
672,862	

15      Home Affairs & Rural Development	
3,179,276	

16      Environment and Social Development 	
801,087	

17      Maneaba ni Maungatabu	
661,693	

18     Commerce, Industry and Tourism	
831,814	

19     Kiribati National Audit Office	
510,358	

20     Office of the Attorney General	
269,679	

21     Natural Resources Development	
2,468,171	

22     Health and Family Planning	
7,999,121	

23     Education Training and Technology	
11,616,183	

24     Information, Communications & Transport	
4,263,302	

25     Finance and Economic Planning	
3,536,420	

27     Works and Energy	
1,813,304	

28     Labour, Employment & Cooperatives	
1,575,759	

29     Line and Phoenix Development	
2,088,953	

                                           TOTAL	
50,307,808	

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APPROPRIATION ACT 1997

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 1998.

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 head of expenditure specified in the Schedule are those which are contained in the Estimates for the financial year ending on 31 December 1998.

4. This Act is presented in accordance with the provisions of section 109(1) and (2) of the Constitution.

Michael N. Takabwebwe
17 November 1998