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(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).
Sections 15 and 16 were substituted, as from 21 December 1992, by section 15 Public Finance Amendment Act 1992 (1992 No 142).
Subsection (1) was substituted, as from 1 July 1994, by section 16 Public Finance Amendment Act 1994 (1994 No 18).
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.