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Appropriation Act 2009-2010

REPUBLIC OF NAURU

(No. 5 of 2009)

AN ACT

To provide for the withdrawal and expenditure of monies from the Treasury Fund to meet the expenditure of the Republic for the financial year ending on the thirtieth day of June, Two thousand and ten.

(Certified: 29th June 2009)

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Arrangement of Sections

Section

1. Short Title
2. Interpretation
3. Commencement and Expiry
4. Withdrawal of monies from the Treasury Fund

Schedule

Expenditure Authorised under this Act.

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AN ACT

To provide for the withdrawal and expenditure of monies from the Treasury Fund to meet the expenditure of the Republic for the financial year ending on the thirtieth day of June, Two thousand and ten.

(Certified: 29th June 2009)

Be it enacted by the Parliament of Nauru as follows:-

SHORT TITLE

1. This Act may be cited as the Appropriation Act 2009-2010

INTERPRETATION

2. In this Act:-

"the Treasury Fund" means the fund established under Article 58 of the Constitution of Nauru;

"the Financial Year" means the year commencing on the first day of ]uly Two Thousand and Eight and ending on the thirtieth day of ]une, Two Thousand and Nine, inclusive of both dates;

"head" means a department or division of the expenditure of the Republic listed in the schedule to this Act;

"subhead" means a subdivision of a head.

COMMENCEMENT AND EXPIRY

3. This Act shall come into force on the first day of July, Two Thousand and Nine and shall cease to have effect on the thirtieth day of June, Two Thousand and Ten.

WITHDRAWAL OF MONEYS FROM THE TREASURY FUND

4. (1) A sum not exceeding $57,749,902 may be withdrawn from the Treasury Fund and expended as authorised in the Schedule to this Act .

(2) The amounts in the Schedule to this Act are in substitution for and not in addition to any other Act providing Supply or an Appropriation to the Government in 2009-10 that may be approved by Parliament before this Act comes into force.

(3) Where the Cabinet considers it necessary to increase the amount assigned in the estimates to a particular subhead within a Head, the Cabinet may direct that there shall be applied to the aid of that subhead a further sum out of any surplus arising on any other subhead within the same Head, but so that the total amount withdrawn and expended does not exceed the amount authorised for that Head in the Schedule to this Act.

(4) Where the Cabinet authorises a transfer of funds between subheads within a Head in accordance with sub-section (3), it shall cause to be laid before the Parliament at the next session of the Parliament after it has approved the transfer, a copy of the order of the Cabinet approving such transfer.

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THE SCHEDULE

SCHEDULE OF EXPENDITURE