SOLOMON ISLANDS

THE 2000 APPROPRIATION
ACT 1999

(No. 15 OF 1999)

Passed by the National Parliament this fourteenth day of December 1999.

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.

Elizabeth Andresen
Clerk to National Parliament

Assented to in Her Majesty's name and on Her Majesty's behalf this nineteenth day of January 2000.

Rev. John Ini Lapli
Governor-General

Date of Commencement: date of publication in the Gazette

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FIVE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-NINE MILLION, TWO HUNDRED AND ONE THOUSAND AND TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS, TO THE SERVICE OF THE YEAR ENDING 31ST DECEMBER, 2000.

ENACTED by the National Parliament of Solomon Islands.

Short title.

1. This Act may be cited as the 2000 Appropriation Act 1999.

Authorisation of issue from the Consolidated Fund $539,201,250 to the service of 2000.

2. The issue from the Consolidated Fund is hereby authorised of a sum of five hundred and thirty-nine million, two hundred and one thousand, two hundred and fifty dollars to be applied to the service of the year ending 31st December 2000.

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 2000, borrow by way of overdraft and advances within or outside Solomon Islands, any sum not exceeding in the whole one hundred million dollars on such terms and conditions as the Minister of Finance may deem expedient.

Structural Reform Programme and 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 2000.

(3) The Government shall not, without first obtaining the further authority of Parliament borrow for the purposes described 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 of any borrowing or the making of any agreement to borrow under sub-section (1).

Advance Warrant

6. The total sums authorised by advance warrants issued by the Minister in exercise of his powers under section 13 of the Public Finance and Audit Act (Cap 120) for the financial year 2000 shall not at any time exceed ten million dollars.

Contingencies warrant

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 (Cap 120) for the financial year 2000 shall not exceed the following amounts:

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

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

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FIRST SCHEDULE

(Section 3)
	
RECURRENT
EXPENDITURE
	EXPENDITURE
AUTHORISED	
HEAD		
				
201	Governor General	656,961		
202	Auditor General	480,817		
204	Office of the Prime Minister	34,174,468		
205	National Parliament	8,392,361		
208	Ministry of Justice, Legal Affairs, and Police Security	
40,977,221		
209	Ministry of Commerce, Industries, Employment, and Tourism	
6,412,613		
211	Ministry of Transport, Works, Communications, and Aviation	
27,631,848		
214	Ministry of Natural Resources	5,020,788		
216	Ministry of Home Affairs, Provincial Government, and Rural Development	
29,215,812		
218	Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development	
81,096,806		
219	Ministry of Health and Medical Services	64,649,174		
220	Ministry of Finance and Development Planning	8,538,543		
220	Pensions and Gratuities	214,500		
220	Miscellaneous	17,415,000		
235	Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, and, Fisheries	18,102,338		
			342,979,250	

DEVELOPMENT
EXPENDITURE	EXPENDITURE
AUTHORISED		
				
HEAD	
				
404	Office of the Prime Minister	800,000		
408	Ministry of Justice, Legal Affairs, and Police Security	
5,813,000		
409	Ministry of Commerce, Industries, Employment and Tourism	
23,028,000		
411	Ministry of Transport, Works, Communications and Aviation	
36,075,000		
414	Ministry of Natural Resources	9,800,000		
416	Ministry of Home Affairs, Provincial Government, and Rural Development	
18,880,000		
418	Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development	
28,950,000		
419	Ministry of Health and Medical Services	9,550,000		
420	Ministry of Finance and Development Planning	
39,081,000		
435	Ministry of Lands, Agriculture and Fisheries	24,245,000		
			196,222,000	

TOTAL RECURRENT AND DEVELOPMENT EXPENDITURE

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539,201,250	

SECOND SCHEDULE
(Section 5)

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
	
Maximum
Borrowing	Used of Funds	Source of Funds

110,000,000	To include:

(a) structural reform programme costs including regularising outstanding financial obligations carried forward into 2000.

(b) Development projects in natural resources, economic infrastructure and human resources.
	Multilateral and bilateral financial institutions.