REPUBLIC OF NAURU
Appropriation Act 2012-2013

Act No. 8 of 2012

Table of Provisions

1 Short title
2 Commencement and expiry
3 Definitions
4 Withdrawal of funds from the Treasury Fund
5 Credit of reimbursed funds to the Treasury Fund
6 Authorisation to withdraw funds for reimbursement
Schedule

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An Act to provide for the withdrawal and expenditure of funds from the Treasury Fund to meet the expenditure of the Republic for the financial year ending on 30 June 2013 

Certified on 13 July 2012 

Enacted by the Parliament of Nauru as follows: 

1 Short title 

This Act may be cited as the Appropriation Act 2012-2013. 

2 Commencement and expiry 

(1) This Act is deemed to have commenced on 1 July 2012. 

(2) This Act ceases to have effect on 30 June 2013. 

3 Definitions 

In this Act: 

'natural account' means a sub-division of expenditure listed in the estimates of expenditure for the financial year ending on 30 June 2013. 

4 Withdrawal of funds from the Treasury Fund 

(1) An amount not exceeding $57,101,604 may be withdrawn from the Treasury Fund and expended as authorised in the Schedule. 

(2) The amounts in the Schedule are in substitution for and not in addition to the amounts authorised for withdrawal under the Supply Act 2012. 

5 Credit of reimbursed funds to the Treasury Fund 

(1) Reimbursed funds may be credited to the natural account against which they were originally expended. 

(2) For section 4, the crediting of reimbursed funds to a natural account under subsection (1) cancels the original withdrawal and expenditure of those funds. 

(3) Reimbursed funds credited to a natural account under subsection (1) may be withdrawn and expended as authorised in the Schedule. 

(4) Reimbursed funds that are not credited to the natural account against which they were originally expended must be recorded as a receipt of revenue. 

(5) In this section, 'reimbursed funds' means any funds withdrawn from the Treasury Fund and expended as authorised in the Schedule that are later wholly or partly reimbursed to the Treasury Fund during the financial year ending 30 June 2013. 

6 Authorisation to withdraw funds for reimbursement 

(1) Where: 

(a) a person has paid to the Republic a fee or charge; and 

(b) there is a legitimate reason for the person to be reimbursed in whole or in part for the fee or charge, 

the amount to be reimbursed may be withdrawn from the Treasury Fund. 

(2) For subsection (1), 'legitimate reason' includes: 

(a) the fee or charge having been imposed or paid in error; 

(b) the person having withdrawn the application in respect of which the fee or charge had been paid; and 

(c) subject to any applicable law, the Republic having been unable to provide to the person within a reasonable time the good, service, licence or other thing in respect of which the fee or charge had been paid. 

Schedule

Section 4 

Head	Government Function	2012-13 Estimates	
1	Presidency and State House 
	$657,583 
	
2	Ministerial 
	$588,519 
	
3	Chief Secretariat 
	$5,113,591 
	
4	Post and Philately 
	$118,279 
	
5	Audit 
	$151,465 
	
6	Parliament 
	$1,029,836 
	
7	GON Warehouse 
	$2,013,612 
	
11	Finance Secretariat 
	$409,142 
	
12	Finance - Public Debt 
	$7,995,942 
	
13	Bureau of Statistics 
	$69,033 
	
15	Nauru Revenue Office 
	$185,275 
	
16	Finance - Other Payments 
	$17,410,847 
	
21	CIE 
	$448,966 
	
31	Fisheries 
	$1,121,800 
	
41	Police 
	$962,340 
	
43	Justice - Secretariat 
	$438,403 
	
44	Judiciary 
	$279,830 
	
45	Border Control 
	$192,004 
	
46	Correctional Services 
	$425,395 
	
51	Education 
	$3,989,269 
	
52	Youth Affairs 
	$120,973 
	
61	Health 
	$4,043,800 
	
62	Sports 
	$709,109 
	
71	Foreign Affairs - Secretariat 
	$412,949 
	
72	Foreign Affairs - Brisbane 
	$619,215
	
73	Foreign Affairs - Suva 
	$206,399 
	
74	Foreign Affairs - New York 
	$756,912 
	
75	Foreign Affairs - Taiwan 
	$203,757 
	
81	Home Affairs 
	$86,405 
	
82	Women's Affairs 
	$66,265 
	
83	Media Bureau 
	$329,371 
	
84	Lands & Survey 
	$1,618,632 
	
85	Lands Committee 
	$153,868 
	
91	Transport Secretariat 
	$68,829 
	
92	Land Transport 
	$1,188,439 
	
93	Maritime Transport 
	$924,235 
	
94	DCA 
	$871,433 
	
95	ICT 
	$782,657 
	
96	Fire & Rescue 
	$337,225 
	
	Total 
	$57,101,604