REPUBLIC OF KIRIBATI

APPROPRIATION ACT 2018

No. 16 of 2018
I assent
Beretitenti

3/12/2018

AN ACT TO AUTHORISE APPROPRIATION OF MONIES OUT OF THE CONSOLIDATED FUND FOR RECURRENT EXPENDITURE FOR THE SERVICE OF THE YEAR ENDING 31 DECEMBER 2019
Commencement: ……… 2019
MADE by the Maneaba ni Maungatabu and assented to by the Beretitenti
1	Short Title and commencement
This Act may be cited as the Appropriation Act 2018 and shall come into operation on 1 January 2019.
2	Authorisation of issue of $192,524,477 from the Consolidated Fund
The issue from the Consolidated Fund is hereby authorized of a sum of $192,524,477 to be applied for recurrent expenditure to the service of the year ending 31 December 2019.
3	Appropriation
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.
4	Transfer of Functions
Where after the commencement of this Act and before 1 January 2019 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	Column 2	
Head of Expenditure	Expenditure Authorised
$	
09	Office of Te Beretitenti	2,354,610	
10	Public Service Office	1,194,640	
11	Judiciary	2,058,139	
12	Kiribati Police Service 	9,103,317	
13	Public Service Commission	282,706	
14	Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Immigration	3,096,968	
15	Ministry of Internal Affairs	2,846,140	
16	Ministry of Environment, Lands and Agricultural Development	4,020,602	
17	Maneaba ni Maungatabu	3,559,350	
18	Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Cooperatives	2,254,195	
19	Kiribati National Audit Office	817,046	
20	Office of the Attorney General	813,570	
21	Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resource Development	3,649,743	
22	Ministry of Health and Medical Services	23,507,798	
23	Ministry of Education	27,021,607	
24	Ministry of Information, Communication, Transport and Tourism Development	4,095,812	
25	Ministry of Finance and Economic Development	3,674,989	
26	Ministry of Women, Youth, Sport and Social Affairs	1,895,225	
27	Ministry of Infrastructure and Sustainable Energy	3,498,564	
28	Ministry of Employment and Human Resources	6,083,112	
29	Ministry of Line and Phoenix Island Development	4,212,171	
37	Ministry of Justice	3,245,420	
38	Leadership Commission	390,071	
	Debt Servicing		
	Subsidies, grants and other commitments.	33,824,395	
	Total	147,500,189	
	ADD TRANSFERS AND FINANCING		
345	Contributions to the Development Fund	45,024,288	
347	Contributions to the RERF	-	
	Grand Total	192,524,477	
THE APPROPRIATION ACT 2018 
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 2019.
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 2019.
4. The Act is presented to the Maneaba ni Maungatabu in accordance with the requirements of section 109(1) and (2) of the Constitution.
Hon Dr. Teuea Toatu
Minister For Finance and Economic Development 
21 November 2018