REPUBLIC OF KIRIBATI

APPROPRIATION ACT
(No. 13 of 2004)

I assent, 

Beretitenti 
28/12/2004 

AN ACT TO AUTHORISE APPROPRIATION OF MONIES OUT OF THE CONSOLIDATED FUND FOR RECURRENT EXPENDITURE FOR THE SERVICE OF THE YEAR ENDING 31 DECEMBER 2005

Commencement: 
2005 

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

Short title and commencement 

1. This Act may be cited as the Appropriation Act 2004 and shall come into operation on 1 January 2005. 

Authorisation of issue of $79,079,510 from the Consolidated Fund 

2. The issue from the Consolidated Fund is hereby authorised of a sum of $79,079,510 to be applied for recurrent expenditure to the service of the year ending 31 December 2005. 

Appropriation 

3. The sum specified in section 2 shall be appropriated for the 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 1st January 2006 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 the Development Fund	695,000	
09	Office of the Beretitenti 	1,120,688	
10	Public Service Office	1,155,848	
11	Judiciary	1,086,671	
12	Police and Prisons	5,590,895	
13	Public Service Commission	132,772	
14	Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Immigration	1,012,980	
15	Ministry of Internal and Social Affairs	2,286,482	
16	Ministry of Environment, Lands and Agriculture Development	2,406,529	
17	Maneaba ni Maungatabu	1,170,251	
18	Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Cooperatives	1,115,303	
19	Kiribati National Audit Office	491,723	
20	Office of the Attorney General	444,967	
21	Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources Development 	1,684,099	
22	Ministry of Health and Medical Services	12,865,812	
23	Ministry of Education, Youth and Medical Services	19,534,243	
24	Ministry of Communication, Transport and Tourism Development	2,829,643	
25	Ministry of Finance and Economic Development	2,242,032	
27	Ministry of Public Works and Utilities	2,254,625	
28	Ministry of Labour and Human Resource Development	2,022,732	
29	Ministry of Line and Phoenix Islands Development	2,582,215	
31	Other Expenses	14,354,000	
			
	Total 	79,079,510	

THE APPROPRIATION ACT 2004

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

1. This Act charges upon the Consolidated Fund a sum, which is required for recurrent expenditure for the year ending 31 December 2005. 

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 2005. 

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

Titabu Tabane
Attorney General
20 November 2004