SOLOMON ISLANDS

THE 1982 APPROPRIATION ACT 1982

No. 1 of 1982

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

SECTION
1. Short title.
2. Authorisation of issue from the Consolidated Fund of $59,862,324 to the service of 1982.
3. Appropriation.
4. Overdrafts and advances.
5. Development loans.
6. Advances warrants.
7. Contingencies warrants.
8. I.F.O. Act 1978 amended.

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THE 1982 APPROPRIATION ACT 1982

No. 1 of 1982

Passed by the National Parliament this second day of March 1982.

This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the Bill passed by Parliament and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill.

Festus Fa'amaea
Clerk to the National Parliament

Assented to in Her Majesty's name and on Her Majesty's behalf this 10th day of March 1982.

B Devesi
Governor-General

Date of commencement: date of publication in the Gazette.

AN ACT to appropriate fifty nine million eight hundred and sixty two thousand and three hundred and twenty four dollars to the service of the year ending the 31st December 1982.

ENACTED by the National Parliament of Solomon Islands.

Short title.

1. This Act may be cited as the 1982 Appropriation Act 1982.

Authorisation of issue from the Consolidated Fund of $59,862,324 to the Service of 1982

2. The issue from the Consolidated Fund is hereby authorised of a sum of fifty nine million eight hundred and sixty two thousand three hundred and twenty four dollars to be applied to the service of the year ending 31st December 1982.

Appropriation.

3. The sum specified in the preceding section shall be appropriated for the supply of the heads specified, and in the amounts respectively specified in relation thereto, in the First Schedule.

Overdrafts and advances.

4. The Government may, at any time or times not later than the 31st December 1982 borrow by way of overdraft and advances within or outside Solomon Islands, or partly within and partly outside Solomon Islands, any sum not exceeding in the whole two million dollars on such terms and conditions as the Minister of Finance may deem expedient.

Development loans.

5. (1) The Government may, in addition to its borrowings under the provisions of section 4, borrow or enter into agreements to borrow on such terms and conditions as it may determine amounts up to such sums of money for such purposes and from such sources as are respectively specified in the first, second and third columns of the Second Schedule.

(2) No amounts may be borrowed under subsection (1) except in accordance with an agreement under that subsection entered into on or before 31st December 1982.

(3) The Government shall not, without first obtaining the further authority of Parliament borrow for the purposes ascribed thereto any sum or sums in excess of the figure shown in the first column of the Second Schedule.

(4) The Minister shall report to Parliament at the meeting next following such borrowing or agreement any borrowing or the making of any agreement to borrow money under subsection (1).

Advances warrants.

6. The total of the sums authorised by advances warrants issued by the Minister in exercise of his powers under section 13 of the Public Finance and Audit Act 1978 for the financial year 1982 shall not at any one time exceed one million dollars.

Contingencies warrants.

7. The total sums authorised by contingencies warrants issued by the Minister in exercise of his powers under section 15 of the Public Finance and Audit Act 1978 for the financial year 1982
shall not exceed the following amounts:

(a) in respect of Heads of Recurrent Expenditure, one million dollars;

(b) in respect of Heads of Development Expenditure, three million dollars.

I.F.O. Act 1978 amended.

8. The International Financial Organisation Act 1978 is hereby amended in section 4(1)(c), 4(1)(d) and 4(1)(e) by inserting after the words "required to be made" the words "or that it is desirable to make".

RECURRENT EXPENDITURE
	EXPENDITURE AUTHORISED	

HEAD
				
201	Governor-General	105,370		
202	Audit	141,520		
204	Office of the Prime Minister	461,900		
205	National Parliament	539,700		
206	Public Service Office and Commission	371,500		
207	Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade	211,000		
208	Ministry of Police and Justice	3,209,094		
210	Ministry of Transport, Communications and Government Utilities	1,813,970		
211	Marine 	1,660,000		
213	Government Utilities 	2,163,000		
214	Plant and Vehicle Pool 	1,594,000		
215	Ministry of Lands, Energy and Natural Resources  	1,054,500		
216	Ministry of Employment, Youth and Social Development 	367,000		
217	Provincial Ministry (Central Islands and Isabel Affairs	1,564,660		
218	Provincial Ministry (Guadalcanal Affairs)	1,436,890		
219	Provincial Ministry (Makira Ulawa and Temotu Affairs)	1,631,185		
220	Provincial Ministry (Malaita Affairs)	2,289,735		
221	Provincial Ministry (Western Affairs)	2,279,730		
222	Ministry of Home Affairs and National Development	2,244,470		
224	Ministry of Education, Training and Cultural Affairs	3,021,100		
225	Ministry of Health and Medical Services	1,820,000		
228	Ministry of Finance	1,265,600		
229	Government Supply	2,005,000		
232	Pensions and Gratuities	450,000		
234	Treasury Miscellaneous Exepenses 	1,089,200		
			34,788,324	

DEVELOPMENT EXPENDITURE
	
401	Natural Resources Sector	2,840,000		
402	Commerce and Industry Sector	105,000		
403	Economic Infrastructure Sector	9,461,000		
404	Education Sector	2,562,000		
405	Health Sector	1,919,000		
406	Culture and Welfare Sector	426,000		
407	Administrative Infrastructure Sector	823,000		
408	Indirect Execution	6,938,000		
			
25,074,000	

TOTAL RECURRENT AND DEVELOPMENT EXPENDITURE		
59,862,324	

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SECOND SCHEDULE

(Section 5)

Column 1
	
Column 2	
Column 3	
$40,000,000	Lungga Hydro-electric project.
	Asian Development Bank and co-financing institutions.	
$27,500,000	Development projects in natural resources, economic infrastructure and human resources.	Asian Development Bank, World Bank Group, British Aid and other financial institutions.
	
$2,500,000	Local costs of development projects.	Development Bonds, Savings Certificates and term loans from domestic financial institutions.
	
$20,000,000	General purpose financing under terms specified in each loan.	Major commercial banks and financial institution.