REPUBLIC OF KIRIBATI
(No. 2 of 2012)

I assent,

Beretitenti 
Assented: 2nd May 2012 

AN ACT TO AUTHORISE APPROPRIATION OF MONIES OUT OF THE CONSOLIDATED FUND FOR RECURRENT EXPENDITURE FOR THE SERVICE OF THE YEAR ENDING 31 DECEMBER 2012

Commencement: 
2012 

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 2012 and shall come into operation on 1 January 2012. 

Authorisation of issue of $ 89,953,207 from the Consolidated Fund 

2. The issue from the Consolidated Fund is hereby authorized of a sum of $89,953,207 to be applied for recurrent expenditure to the service of the year ending 31 December 2012. 

Appropriation 

3. The sum specified in section 2 shall be appropriated for the supply of the Heads of Expenditure specified 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 2013 a function is transferred from one ministry to another the authority conferred by section 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. 

SCHEDULE

Column 1
Head of Expenditure
	Column 2 
Expenditure Authorized	
Code	Ministry	Net Provision under
the Head covered by
the Appropriation Act	
9	Office of Te Beretitenti	987,053	
10	Public Service Office	570,180	
11	Judiciary	1,398,677	
12	Police and Prisons	6,722,218	
13	Public Service Commission	196,974	
14	Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Immigration	1,030,957	
15	Ministry of Internal and Social Affairs	2,678,654	
16	Ministry of Environment, Lands and Agricultural Development	2,388,748	
17	Maneaba ni Maungatabu	1,662,234	
18	Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Cooperatives	1,122,328	
19	Kiribati National Audit Office	524,905	
20	Office of the Attorney General	439,057	
21	Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources Development	1,976,480	
22	Ministry of Health and Medical Services	13,619,640	
23	Ministry of Education	17,621,668	
24	Ministry of Communication, Transport and Tourism Development	2,540,814	
25	Ministry of Finance and Economic Development	2,601,562	
27	Ministry of Public Works and Utilities	2,161,796	
28	Ministry of Labour and Human Resource Development	3,237,993	
29	Ministry of Line and Phoenix Islands Development	2,557,443	
30	Debt Servicing (1)	16,935,481	
31	Subsidies, grants and other commitments	82,965,862	
	Total		
	ADD TRANSFERS AND FINANCING		
			
02	Contributions to the Development Fund	6,987,345	
03	Contribution to the RERF	__________	
	Grand Total	89,953,207	

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THE APPROPRIATION ACT 2012

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

1. This Act charges upon the Consolidated Fund a sum for which is required for recurrent expenditure for the year ending 31 December 2012. 

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 2012. 

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

Titabu Tabane
Attorney General
2012