New Zealand Legislation: Acts
Acts are laws made by Parliament
(1) The authority to incur expenses or capital expenditure provided by an appropriation—
(a) is limited to the scope of the appropriation; and
(b) may not be used for any other purpose.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1),—
(a) the scope of a multi-class output expense appropriation is the scope of each of the individual classes of outputs included in that appropriation; and
(b) any variation made by the Minister of the terms and conditions of a capital injection to any entity referred to in section 27(3)(a) to (f) does not change the scope or purpose of that capital injection.
Subsections (1) and (2) were substituted and subsection (2A) was inserted, as from 1 July 1994, by section 9(1) Public Finance Amendment Act 1994 (1994 No 18).
Subsections (2)(d) to (g) were substituted, as from 21 December 1992, for the original paras (d), (e), (f) and (g), by section 9(1) Public Finance Amendment Act 1992 (1992 No 142).
In subsection (2)(g) the words “category of benefit and each grant”
were substituted, as from 21 December 1992, for the word “payment”
, and the word “they”
for the word “it”
pursuant to section 9(5) of the same amendment Act.
Subsection (2A) was inserted, as from 1 July 1994, by section 9(1) Public Finance Amendment Act 1994 (1994 No 18).
Subsection (2A)(o) and (2A)(p) were inserted, as from 1 July 1994, by section 9(2) Public Finance Amendment Act 1994 (1994 No 18). See also section 9(6) of that Act relating to estimates.
Subsection (3) was repealed, as from 1 July 1994, by section 9(3) Public Finance Amendment Act 1994 (1994 No 18).
Subsection (4) was inserted, as from 1 July 1994, by section 9(4) Public Finance Amendment Act 1994 (1994 No 18).
Subsection (5) was amended, as from 21 December 1992, by section 9(3) of 1992 No 142 by substituting the word “expenses”
for the word “costs”
.
Subsections (5) to (7) were repealed, as from 1 July 1994, by section 9(4) Public Finance Amendment Act 1994 (1994 No 18).
Subsection (7) was inserted, as from 21 December 1992, by section 9(4) of 1992 No 142.
Parts 1 and 2 (sections 4 to 26A) were substituted by new Parts 1 and 2 (sections 4 to 26Z), as from 25 January 2005, by section 7 Public Finance Amendment Act 2004 (2004 No 113). See sections 32 to 36 of that Act as to the transitional provisions.