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15 Other supporting information for first Appropriation Bill

• (1) The other supporting information for the first Appropriation Bill must, for each appropriation, include—

  • (a) a concise explanation of each appropriation (including the intended impacts, outcomes, or objectives of the appropriation); and

  • (b) the performance measures and forecast standards to be achieved for each class of outputs; and

  • (c) the forecast expenses to be incurred for each class of outputs within a multi-class output expense appropriation; and

  • (d) comparative voted and estimated actual expenses or capital expenditure for each appropriation for the previous financial year.

  (2) The other supporting information must, for each Vote, include—

  • (a) comparative voted and estimated actual expenses or capital expenditure for the previous financial year, and comparative actual expenses or capital expenditure for each of the 4 financial years that preceded the previous financial year, for the total of each of the types of appropriation set out in section 7(1); and

  • (b) a summary of the financial activity relating to the Vote for the financial year to which the Appropriation Bill relates, and comparative budgeted and estimated actual figures for the previous financial year.

  (3) The other supporting information must also include, for each category of expense or capital expenditure that is proposed to be incurred in accordance with an appropriation by an Act (other than an Appropriation Act),—

  • (a) the information required, under subsection (1) and section 14 for each appropriation (except that the reference in section 14(1)(a)(v) to the amount of each expense or capital expenditure authorised by the appropriation must be read as a reference to the amount of each expense or capital expenditure forecast to be incurred under the appropriation); and

  • (b) the authority for that expense or capital expenditure.

  (4) The Minister may, in addition to the information referred to in this section, present any further information that the Minister considers necessary or desirable.

  (5) Subsections (1)(a) and (b) and (2)(b) do not apply to an appropriation made in accordance with section 7(1)(f).

  Section 15: substituted, on 25 January 2005, by section 7 of the Public Finance Amendment Act 2004 (2004 No 113).