PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Supplementary (Appropriation) Act 2023

No. 15 of 2023
Certified on: 26 OCT 2023

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.
PART I. - INCREASE OF 2023 APPROPRIATION OPERATIONAL EXPENDITURE.
1. Increase of operational expenditure appropriation.
PART II. - 2023 SUPPLEMENTARY BUDGET.
2. Direction for appropriated expenditure.
	SCHEDULE.

AN ACT
entitled
Supplementary (Appropriation) Act 2023,
Being an Act to grant and apply out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund an increase of expenditure for the year ending 31 December 2023, in the Appropriation (General Public Service Expenditure 2023) Act 2022.
MADE by the National Parliament.
PART I. - INCREASE OF 2023 APPROPRIATION OPERATIONAL EXPENDITURE.
1. INCREASE OF OPERATIONAL EXPENDITURE APPROPRIATION.
The Appropriation (General Public Service Expenditure 2023) Act 2022 is amended to appropriate K771,000,000.00 in accordance with the details set out in the Schedule.
PART II. - 2023 SUPPLEMENTARY BUDGET.
2. DIRECTION FOR APPROPRIATED EXPENDITURE.
(1) The increased appropriation identified in the Schedule totalling K498,000,000.00 is to be immediately transferred to the Department of Treasury administered 'Division 207' for payment into respective appropriations to cater for projected increases in the 2023 Budget General Goods and Services.
(2) The increased appropriation identified in the Schedule totalling K273,000,000.00 is to be immediately transferred to Department of Treasury administered 'Division 299' to service Debt Interest Payments.
SCHEDULE.
Appropriation of additional expenditure for Appropriation (General Public Service Expenditure 2023) Act 2022 in Part II of this Act.
Agency	Purpose	Amount	
			
207 - Miscellaneous	Goods and Services	K498,000,000.00	
299 - Treasury and Finance Public Debt Charges	Debt interest payments	K273,000,000.00	
			
Grand Total		K771,000,000.00	

I hereby certify that the above is a fair print of the Supplementary (Appropriation) Act 2023, which has been made by the National Parliament.
Clerk of the National Parliament
26 OCT 2023
I hereby certify that the Supplementary (Appropriation) Act 2023, was made by the National Parliament on 12 October 2023.
Speaker of the National Parliament
26 OCT 2023