REPUBLIC OF KIRIBATI
(No. 12 of 2000)

I assent,

Teburoro Tito
Beretitenti
08/12/2000

AN ACT TO AUTHORISE APPROPRIATION OF MONIES OUT OF THE CONSOLIDATED FUND FOR RECURRENT EXPENDITURE FOR THE SERVICE OF THE YEAR ENDING 31 DECEMBER 2001

Commencement:
2000

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 2000 and shall come into operation on 1 January 2001.

Authorisation of issue of $64,414,424 from the Consolidated Fund

2. The issue from the Consolidated Fund is hereby authorised of a sum of $64,414,424 to be applied for recurrent expenditure to the service of the year ending 31 December 2001.

Appropriation

3. The sum specified in section 2 shall be appropriated for the supply of the Heads of Expenditure 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 2002 a function is transferred from one Ministry to another the authority conferred by sections 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.

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SCHEDULE

Column 1								Column 2
Head of Expenditure						Additional Expenditure
									Authorised
									 $

02	Contributions to Development Fund			 	 5,800,000
09	Office of the Beretitenti					 699,396
10	Public Service Office						 672,527
11	Judiciary							 786,311
12	Police and Prisons						 3,799,000
13	Public Service Commission					 119,364
14	Ministry of Foreign Affairs					 706,318
15	Ministry of Home Affairs & Rural Development	 	 1,746,649
16	Ministry of Environment & Social Development		 1,082,698
17	Maneaba ni Maungatabu				 	 1,254,007
18	Ministry of Commerce, Industry & Tourism			 849,221
19	Kiribati National Audit Office				 511,729
20	Office of the Attorney General				 317,000
21	Ministry of Natural Resource Development		 	 2,432,509
22	Ministry of Health						 8,264,000 
23	Ministry of Education, Training & Technology		14,626,002
24	Ministry of Information, Communication & Transport	 2,045,299
25	Ministry of Finance & Economic Planning			 1,915,543
27	Ministry of Works and Energy				 2,180,952
28	Ministry of Labour, Employment & Cooperatives		 1,805,492
29	Ministry of Line & Phoenix Group				 2,378,552
30	Debt Servicing						 548,000
31	Other Expenses						 9,873,855
				TOTAL				64,414,424

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THE APPROPRIATION BILL 2000

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

1.	This Act charges upon the Consolidated Fund a sum, which is required for recurrent expenditure for the year ending 31 December 2001.

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 2001.

4.	This Act is presented to the Maneaba ni Maungatabu in accordance with the requirements of section 109(1) and (2) of the Constitution.

Michael N. Takabwebwe
Attorney General
17 November 2000