New Zealand Legislation: Acts

9 Appropriation limited by scope

• (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.

  Section 9: substituted, on 25 January 2005, by section 7 of the Public Finance Amendment Act 2004 (2004 No 113).