PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Appropriation (Recurrent Expenditure 1999) Act 1998

No. 43 of 1998
Certified on: 18.12.98

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.
1. Grant of K1,998,400,000.00.
2. Appropriation.
3. Adjustment of appropriation for new services and as between services.
4. Adjustment of appropriation as between services.
5. Transfer of activities between departments.
6. Direction to be available to Auditor-General.
SCHEDULE.

AN ACT
entitled
Appropriation (Recurrent Expenditure 1999) Act 1998,
Being an Act to grant and apply out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund a sum for the General Public Services for recurrent expenditure for the year ending 31 December 1999 and to appropriate the supplies granted for that year,
MADE by the National Parliament.
1	GRANT OF K1,998,400,000.00.
Subject to authorization from the Minister, the Secretary for Treasury & Planning may issue out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund and apply for the services of the General Public Services for the financial year ending 31 December 1999 the sum of K1,998,400,000.00.
2	APPROPRIATION.
Sum granted by this Act out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for all the services of the General Public Service of the financial year ending 31 December 1999 are appropriated for the purposes and services expressed in the Schedule in relation to the financial year ending 31 December 1999.
3	ADJUSTMENT OF APPROPRIATION FOR NEW SERVICES AND AS BETWEEN SERVICES.
Where there is insufficient or no appropriation to meet recurrent expenditure for a particular service, the Secretary for Treasury & Planning may direct the re-allocation of any unexpended appropriation under national development expenditure, provided that the total re-allocation shall not exceed a sum of K2,000,000.00.
4	ADJUSTMENT OF APPROPRIATION AS BETWEEN SERVICES.
Where there is insufficient appropriation to meet recurrent expenditure the Secretary for Treasury & Planning may direct the re-allocation of any unexpended appropriation under recurrent expenditure to recurrent expenditure, provided that the total of re-allocation shall not exceed a sum of K200,000,000.00.
5	TRANSFER OF ACTIVITIES BETWEEN DEPARTMENTS.
Where, after the commencement of this Act and before 1 January 1999, an activity is transferred from one operating agency to another, the authority conferred by Sections 3 and 4 to issue and apply monies out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund extends to the issue and application of moneys in respect of the carrying out of the activity by that other operating agency.
6	DIRECTION TO BE AVAILABLE TO AUDITOR-GENERAL.
A copy of each direction under Sections 3 and 4 shall be made available to the Auditor-General as soon as practicable after the end of each quarter of the financial year ending 31 December 1999.
SCHEDULE.
Estimates of Expenditure for the year ending 31 December 1999.
SUMMARY	KINA	
202	Office of Governor-General	1,800,000.00	
203	Department of Prime Minister & National Executive Council	15,500,000.00	
204	National Statistical Office	2,142,000.00	
205	Office of Bougainville Affairs	1,500,000.00	
206	Department of Treasury & Planning	18,200,000.00	
207	Department of Treasury & Planning - Miscellaneous	101,732,000.00	
212	Information Technology Division	4,141,000.00	
214	Consumer Affairs Council	1,480,500.00	
216	Internal Revenue Commission	27,000,000.00	
217	Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade	12,500,000.00	
220	Department of Personnel Management	     2,600,000.00	
221	Public Service Commission	400,000.00	
225	Department of Attorney-General	6,000,000.00	
226	Department of Corrective Institutional Services	13,000,000.00	
227	Provincial Treasuries	1,000,000.00	
228	Department of Police	82,000,000.00	
229	Office of Planning and Implementation	2,000,000.00	
230	Electoral Commission	8,500,000.00	
231	National Intelligence Organisation	800,000.00	
232	Department of Provincial and Local Government Affairs	4,500,000.00	
234	Department of Defence	80,000,000.00	
235	Department of Education	  84,124,600.00	
236	Office of Higher Education	15,700,000.00	
240	Department of Health	54,000,000.00	
241	Hospital Management Services	54,000,000.00	
242	Office of Family and Church Affairs	1,500,000.00	
245	Office of Environment and Conservation	3,000,000.00	
247	Department of Agriculture & Livestock	8,000,000.00	
252	Department of Lands and Physical Planning	2,000,000.00	
254	Department of Mineral Resources	6,500,000.00	
255	Department of Petroleum and Gas	4,000,000.00	
258	Department of Public Enterprise	1,000,000.00	
259	Department of Transport, Works & Civil Aviation	30,000,000.00	
261	Department of Commerce and Industry	2,000,000.00	
262	Department of Employment and Youth	    2,500,000.00	
267	Office of Rural Development	1,500,000.00	
299	Department of Treasury & Planning - Debt Services Charges	746,779,900.00	
502	Office of the Auditor-General	5,100,000.00	
503	Ombudsman Commission	5,500,000.00	
512	University of Papua New Guinea	20,000,000.00	
513	University of Technology	20,000,000.00	
514	University of Goroka	4,500,000.00	
515	University of Vudal	2,600,000.00	
517	National Narcotics Bureau	1,000,000.00	
519	National Aids Council Secretariat	500,000.00	
525	National Broadcasting Commission	  7,000,000.00	
530	Investment Promotion Authority	2,000,000.00	
539	National Museum and Art Gallery	1,000,000.00	
541	National Housing Corporation	500,000.00	
542	National Cultural Commission	  1,000,000.00	
551	PNG National Fisheries Authority	4,000,000.00	
557	PNG National Forest Authority	17,000,000.00	
558	Tourism Promotion Authority	3,300,000.00	
571	Fly River Provincial Government	27,083,100.00	
572	Gulf Provincial Government	17,033,500.00	
573	Central Provincial Government	20,425,800.00	
574	National Capital District	8,003,400.00	
575	Milne Bay Provincial Government	25,330,000.00	
576	Oro Provincial Government	15,392,900.00	
577	Southern Highlands Provincial Government	40,446,600.00	
578	Enga Provincial Government	30,353,000.00	
579	Western Highlands Provincial Government	34,722,300.00	
580	Simbu Provincial Government	22,521,100.00	
581	Eastern Highlands Provincial Government	34,989,400.00	
582	Morobc Provincial Government	42,682,700.00	
583	Madang Provincial Government	29,200,900.00	
584	East Sepik Provincial Government	29,792,200.00	
585	Sandaun Provincial Government	18,666,500.00	
586	Manus Provincial Government	9,052,700.00	
587	New Ireland Provincial Government	25,703,100.00	
588	East New Britain Provincial Government	27,082,500.00	
589	West New Britain Provincial Government	22,063,600.00	
590	Bougainville Provincial Government	19,454,700.00	
TOTAL	1,998,400,000.00	

I hereby certify that the above is a fair print of the Appropriation (Recurrent Expenditure 1999) Act 1998 which has been made by the National Parliament.
Clerk of the National Parliament.
I hereby certify that the Appropriation (Recurrent Expenditure 1999) Act 1998 was made by the National Parliament on 24 November 1998.
Speaker of the National Parliament.