REPUBLIC OF KIRIBATI

APPROPRIATION ACT 2003
(No. 1 of 2003)

Assented to by 

Beretitenti 
on 19/09/2003 

AN ACT TO AUTHORISE APPROPRIATION OF MONIES OUT OF THE CONSOLIDATED FUND FOR RECURRENT EXPENDITURE FOR THE SERVICE OF THE YEAR ENDING 31 DECEMBER 2003

Commencement: 
2003 

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 2003 and shall be deemed to have come into operation on 1 January 2003. 

Authorisation of issue of $85,484,040 from the Consolidated Fund 

2. The issue from the Consolidated Fund is hereby authorized of a sum of $85,484,040 to be applied for recurrent expenditure to the service of the year ending 31 December 2003. 

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 1 January 2004 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. 

SCHEDULE

Column 1	Column 2	
Head of Expenditure	Expenditure 	
	Authorised	
	$    	

02	Contribution to Development Fund	6,633,000	
09	Office of the Beretitenti	1,128,662	
10	Public Service Office	1,052,579	
11	Judiciary	1,065,335	
12	Police and Prisons	6,066,569	
13	Public Service Commission	96,281	
14	Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Immigration	1,039,738	
15	Ministry  of Internal and Social Affairs	2,245,008	
16	Ministry of Environment, Lands and Agricultural Development	2,408,266	
17	Maneaba ni Maungatabu	1,303,378	
18	Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Co-operatives	1,218,915	
19	Kiribati National Audit Office	544,865	
20	Office of the Attorney General	638,078	
21	Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources Development	1,839,600	
22	Ministry of Health and Medical Service	12,717,209	
23	Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports	19,367,520	
24	Ministry of Communications, Transport and Toursim Development	2,979,433	
25	Ministry of Finance and Economic Development	2,409,912	
27	Ministry of Public Works and Utilities	2,529,911	
28	Ministry of Labour and Human Resources Development	2,005,112	
29	Ministry of Line and Phoenix Islands Development	3,073,669	
30	Debt Servicing	0	
31	Other Expenses	13,121,000	
	TOTAL	85,484,040	

THE APPROPRIATION ACT 2003

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

1. This Act charges upon the Consolidated Fund a sum, which is required for recurrent expenditure for the year ending 31 December 2003. 

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 2003. 

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

Titabu Tabane
Attorney General
4 September 2003