REPUBLIC OF KIRIBATI

APPROPRIATION ACT 2008
(No. 18 of 2008)

I assent, 

Beretitenti 
Assented: 23rd December 2008 

AN ACT TO AUTHORISE APPROPRIATION OF MONIES OUT OF THE CONSOLIDATED FUND FOR RECURRENT EXPENDITURE FOR THE SERVICE OF THE YEAR ENDING 31 DECEMBER 2009

Commencement: 

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 2008 and shall come into operation on 1 January 2009. 

Authorisation of issue of $ 84,003,846.00 from the Consolidated Fund 

2. The issue from the Consolidated Fund is hereby authorized of a sum of $84,003,846.00 to be applied for recurrent expenditure to the service of the year ending 31 December 2009. 

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 2010 a function is transferred from one ministry to another the authority conferred by section 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 Authorized
	
	$
	
02 Contributions to Development Fund	30,000	
9 Office of Te Beretitenti	1,066,821	
10 Public Service Office	1,038,660	
11 Judiciary	1,294,586	
12 Police and Prisons 	6,444,212	
13 Public Service Commission	186,339	
14 Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Immigration	1,109,125	
15 Ministry of Internal and Social Affairs	2,688,324	
16 Ministry of Environment, Lands and Agricultural Development	2,613,402	
17 Maneaba ni Maungatabu	1,755,530	
18 Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Cooperatives	1,055,246	
19 Kiribati National Audit Office	559,368	
20 Office of the Attorney General	434,156	
21 Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources Development	1,853,156	
22 Ministry of Health and Medical Services	4,216,774	
23 Ministry of Education	20,570,659	
24 Ministry of Communication, Transport and Tourism Development	3,281,306	
25 Ministry of Finance and Economic Development	2,416,141	
27 Ministry of Public Works and Utilities	2,695,278	
28 Ministry of Labour and Human Resource Development	3,106,177	
29 Ministry of Line and Phoenix Islands Development	3,244,549	
30 Debt Servicing	-	
31 Subsidies, grants and other commitments	12,344,034
	
Total	84,003,846 	

THE APPROPRIATION ACT 2008

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

1. This Act charges upon the Consolidated Fund a sum for which is required for recurrent expenditure for the year ending 31 December 2009. 

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 2009. 

4. The 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
December 2008