REPUBLIC OF KIRIBATI

APPROPRIATION ACT 2009
(No. 8 of 2009)

I assent, 

Beretiteni 
Assented: 7th December 2009 

AN ACT TO AUTHORISE APPROPRIATION OF MONIES OUT OF THE CONSOLIDATED FUND FOR RECURRENT EXPENDITURE FOR THE SERVICE OF THE YEAR ENDING 31 DECEMBER 2010

Commencement: 2010

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 2009 and shall come into operation on 1 January 2010. 

Authorisation of issue of $ 82,847,866.00 from the Consolidated Fund 

2. The issue from the Consolidated Fund is hereby authorized of a sum of $82,847,866.00 to be applied for recurrent expenditure to the service of the year ending 31 December 2010. 

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 2011 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	
	$	
9 Office of Te Beretitenti	986,253	
10 Public Service Office	609,834	
11 Judiciary	1,251,483	
12 Police and Prisons	6,280,123	
13 Public Service Commission	173,770	
14 Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Immigration	1,056,549	
15 Ministry of Internal and Social Affairs	2,435,039	
16 Ministry of Environment, Lands and Agricultural Development	2,569,828	
17 Maneaba ni Maungatabu	1,682,076	
18 Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Cooperatives	997,600	
19 Kiribati National Audit Office	536,660	
20 Office of the Attorney General	428,284	
21 Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources Development	1,713,306	
22 Ministry of Health and Medical Services	13,854,963	
23 Ministry of Education	15,356,687	
24 Ministry of Communication, Transport and Tourism Development	3,171,875	
25 Ministry of Finance and Economic Development	2,105,912	
27 Ministry of Public Works and Utilities	2,369,657	
28 Ministry of Labour and Human Resource Development	2,969,848	
29 Ministry of Line and Phoenix Islands Development	3,184,048	
31 Subsidies, grants and other commitments	12,003,004	
2 Contributions to Development	7,111,067	
Grand total	82,847,866	

THE APPROPRIATION ACT 2009

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 2010. 

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 2010. 

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
November 2009