New Zealand Legislation: Acts

26E Application of this Part to Offices of Parliament

• (1) Before an appropriation in a Vote administered by an Office of Parliament may be included in an Appropriation Bill for a financial year, the chief executive of the Office concerned must prepare and submit to the House of Representatives the following information:

  • (a) an estimate of expenses and capital expenditure to be incurred for—

    • (i) each proposed appropriation; and

    • (ii) each class of outputs within an appropriation; and

  • (b) the projected balance of net assets (in terms of section 23(1)(c)); and

  • (c) the revenue of the Office (including the revenue associated with each proposed expenses appropriation and each output class).

  (2) The House of Representatives, after considering the information provided under subsection (1), may for each Office of Parliament commend to the Governor-General, by way of an address, the estimates for each of the matters set out in subsection (1)(a) to (c).

  (3) The House of Representatives may, in that address, request that the estimates referred to in subsection (2) be included as a Vote in an Appropriation Bill for that year.

  (4) If that Vote is included in an Appropriation Bill for that year, this Part applies, with all necessary modifications, as if references to a department were references to an Office of Parliament.

  (5) An alteration to a Vote administered by an Office of Parliament during a financial year is subject to the provisions of this section.

  Section 26E: inserted, on 25 January 2005, by section 7 of the Public Finance Amendment Act 2004 (2004 No 113).