Grant and appropriation of £409,768,650 out of Consolidated Revenue Account

Grant and appropriation of £137,314,000 out of Works and Trading Account

Grant and appropriation of £50,554,000 out of accounts outside the Public Account

Indemnity as to unauthorised expenditure of £6,235,890

Authority to write off losses of public money and public stores amounting to £814,165

Authority to transfer £100,000,000 from National Development Loans Account to other accounts

FIRST SCHEDULE Appropriations Out of Consolidated Revenue Account for the Year 1965-66

SECOND SCHEDULE Appropriations Out of Works and Trading Account for the Year 1965–66

THIRD SCHEDULE Appropriations Out of Accounts Outside the Public Account for the Year 1965–66

FOURTH SCHEDULE Unauthorised Expenditure Statement for the Year 1964–65

FIFTH SCHEDULE Amounts Written Off

SIXTH SCHEDULE Transfers Authorised From National Development Loans Account for the Year 1965–66

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Appropriation Act 1965

Public Act		1965 No 135
Date of assent		1 November 1965

	Title
1	Short Title
2	Grant and appropriation of £409,768,650 out of Consolidated Revenue Account
3	Grant and appropriation of £137,314,000 out of Works and Trading Account
4	Grant and appropriation of £50,554,000 out of accounts outside the Public Account
5	Indemnity as to unauthorised expenditure of £6,235,890
6	Authority to write off losses of public money and public stores amounting to £814,165
7	Authority to transfer £100,000,000 from National Development Loans Account to other accounts
	FIRST SCHEDULE Appropriations Out of Consolidated Revenue Account for the Year 1965-66
	SECOND SCHEDULE Appropriations Out of Works and Trading Account for the Year 1965–66
	THIRD SCHEDULE Appropriations Out of Accounts Outside the Public Account for the Year 1965–66
	FOURTH SCHEDULE Unauthorised Expenditure Statement for the Year 1964–65
	FIFTH SCHEDULE Amounts Written Off
	SIXTH SCHEDULE Transfers Authorised From National Development Loans Account for the Year 1965–66
	Administrative information

An Act to appropriate and apply certain sums of money out of the Consolidated Revenue Account and other accounts to the services of the year ending with the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and sixty-six, and to appropriate the supplies granted in this year

MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN,—We, Your Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects, the House of Representatives of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, towards making good the supply which we have cheerfully granted to Your Majesty in this year, have resolved to grant unto Your Majesty the sums hereinafter mentioned, and do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted: And be it enacted by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1 Short Title

(1)

This Act may be cited as the Appropriation Act 1965.

(2)

This Act relates to the year ending with the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and sixty-six (hereinafter referred to as this year).

2 Grant and appropriation of £409,768,650 out of Consolidated Revenue Account

(1)

The Minister of Finance may issue and apply out of the Consolidated Revenue Account, towards making good the supplies granted to Her Majesty for the services of this year, any sums which, together with the sums that have been issued and paid out of the Consolidated Revenue Account during this year under section 49 of the Public Revenues Act 1953 and the Imprest Supply Acts passed during this year, do not exceed the sum of four hundred and nine million seven hundred and sixty-eight thousand six hundred and fifty pounds.

(2)

The sums hereinbefore authorised to be applied, together with the fees collected by such public officers as are authorised to retain them instead of salary, are hereby appropriated for the services expressed in the several votes specified in the First Schedule to this Act.

3 Grant and appropriation of £137,314,000 out of Works and Trading Account

(1)

The Minister of Finance may issue and apply out of the Works and Trading Account, towards making good the supplies granted to Her Majesty for the services of this year, any sums which, together with the sums that have been issued and paid out of the Works and Trading Account during this year under section 49 of the Public Revenues Act 1953 and the Imprest Supply Acts passed during this year, do not exceed the sum of one hundred and thirty-seven million three hundred and fourteen thousand pounds.

(2)

The sums hereinbefore authorised to be applied are hereby appropriated for the services expressed in the several votes specified in the Second Schedule to this Act.

(3)

Where any of the money appropriated by this section for the construction, maintenance, and supervision of roads, bridges, and other public works is by the estimates for this year as approved by the House of Representatives allocated for the construction, maintenance, or supervision of any particular road or bridge, the money so allocated, or any portion thereof, may be expended for the construction or maintenance of any other road or bridge (within the district of the same local authority) for which no specific provision is made by the said estimates.

4 Grant and appropriation of £50,554,000 out of accounts outside the Public Account

(1)

The Minister of Finance may issue and apply out of the accounts outside the Public Account mentioned in the Third Schedule to this Act, towards making good the supplies granted to Her Majesty for the services of this year, any sums which, together with the Sums that have been issued and paid out of those accounts during this year under section 49 of the Public Revenues Act 1953 and the Imprest Supply Acts passed during this year, do not exceed the sum of fifty million five hundred and fifty-four thousand pounds.

(2)

The sums hereinbefore authorised to be applied are hereby appropriated for the services expressed in the several votes specified in the Third Schedule to this Act.

5 Indemnity as to unauthorised expenditure of £6,235,890

Whereas the Minister of Finance has, under the authority of sections 51 and 76 of the Public Revenues Act 1953, issued during the year that ended with the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and sixty-five, in excess of or without the appropriation of Parliament, the respective sums mentioned in the Fourth Schedule to this Act, out of the Consolidated Revenue Account and the other accounts mentioned in the said Schedule, amounting in the whole to the sum of six million two hundred and thirty-five thousand eight hundred and ninety pounds, and has caused those sums to be applied to the several services mentioned in the said Fourth Schedule: Be it therefore enacted that the application of the said sums is hereby sanctioned.

6 Authority to write off losses of public money and public stores amounting to £814,165

Whereas the losses of public money and public stores specified in the Fifth Schedule to this Act have occurred, amounting in the whole to eight hundred and fourteen thousand one hundred and sixty-five pounds: Be it therefore enacted as follows:

(1)

The amounts specified in the said Fifth Schedule, being sums of public money and the value of public stores, are hereby written off.

(2)

No person, other than an accounting officer within the meaning of the Public Revenues Act 1953, shall be deemed to be discharged, by reason only of the fact that the said amounts are written off, from any liability in respect of any public money or public stores (other than debts remitted) to which this section applies.

7 Authority to transfer £100,000,000 from National Development Loans Account to other accounts

There may be transferred from the National Development Loans Account to the respective accounts mentioned in the Sixth Schedule to this Act any sums which, together with the sums that have been so transferred during this year under section 12 of the New Zealand Loans Act 1953 and the Imprest Supply Acts passed during this year, do not exceed in respect of any such account the appropriate amount specified in that Schedule and do not exceed in the aggregate the sum of one hundred million pounds.

FIRST SCHEDULE Appropriations Out of Consolidated Revenue Account for the Year 1965-66

Section 2(2)

Vote	SERVICE	Appropriation
		£
1	Legislative	366,000
2	Prime Minister’s Office	24,000
3	External Affairs	4,978,700
4	Audit	330,000
5	Customs	1,020,000
6	Inland Revenue	2,875,000
7	Stabilisation	19,400,000
8	Treasury	2,310,000
9	Broadcasting	4,500
10	Government Printing Office	2,875,000
11	Internal Affairs	3,030,000
12	Island Territories	1,695,000
13	Labour	2,360,000
14	Maori Affairs	1,470,500
15	Marine	1,502,000
16	State Advances Corporation	19,700
17	State Services Commission	319,000
18	Statistics	498,000
19	Valuation	658,350
20	Crown Law	66,000
21	Justice	3,925,000
22	Police	4,785,000
23	Defence	40,800,000
24	Public Works and Services	17,731,000
25	Roads, etc.	1,100,000
26	Agriculture	8,911,000
27	Civil Aviation and Meteorological Services	4,669,000
28	Forest Service	2,772,000
29	Industries and Commerce	1,176,000
30	Lands and Survey	2,345,000
31	Mines	521,000
32	Scientific and Industrial Research	3,562,500
33	Tourist and Publicity	2,046,900
34	Transport	1,427,500
35	Education	67,070,000
36	Family Benefit Capitalisation	4,300,000
37	Health	6,240,000
38	Health Benefits	17,200,000
39	Hospitals	51,205,000
40	Social Security Monetary Benefits	102,700,000
41	Social Security Expenses and Emergency Benefits	3,780,000
42	War and other Pensions	15,700,000
	TOTAL	£409,768,650

SECOND SCHEDULE Appropriations Out of Works and Trading Account for the Year 1965–66

Section 3(2)

Vote	SERVICE	Appropriation
		£
43	Airport Development	2,009,000
44	Crown Lands	9,700,000
45	Electric Supply	37,800,000
46	Forest Development	6,460,000
47	Housing Construction	7,500,000
48	Maori Land Settlement	6,065,000
49	Public Buildings	6,310,000
50	Railway Construction	350,000
51	State Coal Mines	7,870,000
52	University and Technical Institute Buildings	4,350,000
53	Working Railways	48,900,000
	TOTAL	£137,314,000

THIRD SCHEDULE Appropriations Out of Accounts Outside the Public Account for the Year 1965–66

Section 4

Vote	ACCOUNT AND SERVICE	Appropriation
		£
	EARTHQUAKE AND WAR DAMAGE FUND
54	Earthquake and War Damage	85,000
	GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE ACCOUNT
55	Government Life Insurance	513,000
	MAORI TRUSTEE’S ACCOUNT
56	Maori Trust Office	219,000
	POST OFFICE ACCOUNT
57	Post Office Working Expenses	38,600,000
58	Telecommunications Development	8,900,000
	TOTAL	47,500,000
	PUBLIC TRUSTEE’S ACCOUNT
59	Public Trust Office	1,242,000
	STATE INSURANCE ACCOUNT
60	State Insurance Office	995,000
	TOTAL	£50,554,000

FOURTH SCHEDULE Unauthorised Expenditure Statement for the Year 1964–65

Section 4

Under Section 51(5) of the Public Revenues Act 1953
CONSOLIDATED REVENUE ACCOUNT
For Services Not Provided for—	£	£	£
Department of External Affairs— Contribution to the National Committee for International Cooperation Year for administrative expenses		350
Department of Labour— Grant to the Auckland Board for the Placement of Disabled People		1,500
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research— Ex gratia payment to Wheat Research Institute in respect of unpaid charges for wheat testing carried out for industry		2,585
Department of Statistics— Compassionate grant to widow of deceased officer		366
Treasury— Ex gratia payment of amount representing difference in sales tax assessed at trade price list of goods and at Government contract rate	4,251
Transfer to Decimal Currency Account within Trust Account	1,500,000	1,504,251
		1,509,052
For Services in Excess Of Votes—
Vote—Agriculture	12,365
Vote—Audit	1,363
Vote—Broadcasting	33
Vote—Crown Law	7,965
Vote—Customs	47,242
Vote—Defence	390,966
Vote—Education	550,382
Vote—Family Benefit Capitalisation	420,088
Vote—Forest Service	41,511
Vote—Government Printing Office	31,052
Vote—Health Benefits	728,987
Vote—Hospitals	899,183
Vote—Internal Affairs	2,155
Vote—Island Territories	4,648
Vote—Labour	43,738
Vote—Legislative	35,506
Vote—Maori Affairs	10,778
Vote—Police	119,877
Vote—Social Security Expenses and Emergency Benefits	50,291
Vote—State Services Commission	10,474
Vote—Statistics	10,925
Vote—Transport	31,378
Vote—Treasury	2,839
Vote—Valuation	7,392	3,461,138
Total, Consolidated Revenue Account			4,970,190
WORKS AND TRADING ACCOUNT
For Services in Excess of Votes—
Vote—State Coal Mines		112,595
Vote—University and Technical Institute Buildings		123,537	236,132
NATIONAL ROADS FUND
Ex gratia payments in lieu of returns of petrol tax, etc.		2,761
Bridge, highway and motorway openings		124
Entertainment expenses		141
Travelling expenses of members of signs committee and road research unit		206	3,232
ACCOUNTS OUTSIDE THE PUBLIC ACCOUNT
EARTHQUAKE AND WAR DAMAGE FUND
For Services in Excess of Votes—
Vote—Earthquake and War Damage			657
GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE ACCOUNT
For Services in Excess Of Votes—
Vote—Government Life Insurance			4,125
POST OFFICE ACCOUNT
For Services in Excess of Votes—
Vote—Post Office Working Expenses			1,021,554
			£6,235,890

SUMMARY

	Unauthorised Authority (Section 51(4) of the Public Revenues 1953)	Amount Expended
Unauthorised Expenditure	£	£
For all services	8,323,916	6,235,890

FIFTH SCHEDULE Amounts Written Off

Section 6

Department and Particulars	Reason for Writing Off	Value of Stores, etc.	Cash
		£	£
Agriculture—
Bad debts	Irrecoverable		160
Livestock	Died, etc.	993
Stores	Lost, broken, etc.	252
Stores	Stolen	88
Stores	Lost by fire	291
Stores	Gratuitous issues	648
Cash, warrants, etc.	Stolen		4
Overpayment salaries, etc.	Irrecoverable		10
Debt remitted	Remission of claim in respect of overpayment of subsidy on eggs		1,124
Civil Aviation—
Bad debts	Irrecoverable		129
Stores	Lost, broken, etc.	124
Stores	Stolen	16
Stores	Gratuitous issues	5
Stores	Lost by fire	136
Crown Law Office—
Stores	Stolen	4
Debt remitted	Remission of claim for balance of legal costs awarded to Crown		96
Customs—
Bad debts	Irrecoverable		10
Debt remitted	Remission of customs duty and sales tax		4,809
Cash, warrants, etc.	Stolen		519
Education—
Bad debts	Irrecoverable		378
Stores	Lost, broken, etc.	566
Stores	Stolen	101
Stores	Lost by fire	206
Overpayment salaries, etc.	Irrecoverable		196
Stores	Gratuitous issues	400
External Affairs—
Debt remitted	Remission of claim on account of timber supplied for use in the Commonwealth Institute Building		160
Debt remitted	Remission of debt owed by the Western Samoan Government being the proportionate amount of the costs of the purchasing branch office, London, for 1958–59		930
Government Printing Office—
Bad debts	Irrecoverable		17
Stores	Lost, broken, etc.	2,493
Stores	Stolen	32
Cash, warrants, etc.	Stolen		1
Nugatory expenditure	Miscellaneous		32
Debt remitted	Remission of claim for subscription rates not collected for New Zealand Gazette		1,121
Health—
Bad debts	Irrecoverable		108
Stores	Lost, broken, etc.	343
Stores	Lost by fire	318
Stores	Stolen	93
Livestock	Died, etc.	447
Overpayment salaries, etc.	Irrecoverable		57
Industries and Commerce—
Bad debts	Irrecoverable		23
Inland Revenue—
Bad debts	Irrecoverable		51
Land and income tax, etc.	Irrecoverable		63,549
Overpayment salaries, etc.	Irrecoverable		18
Debt remitted	Remission of claim for penal interest		50
Internal Affairs—
Stores	Lost, broken, etc.	213
Bad debts	Irrecoverable		15
Advances to ex-servicemen	Irrecoverable		3,921
Stores	Stolen	24
Island Territories—
Stores	Stolen	6
Justice—
Bad debts	Irrecoverable		358
Stores	Lost, broken, etc.	286
Stores	Lost by fire	1,861
Livestock	Died, etc.	924
Stores	Stolen	20
Overpayment salaries, etc.	Irrecoverable		3
Cash, warrants, etc.	Stolen		193
Labour—
Bad debts	Irrecoverable		519
Stores	Lost, broken, etc.	61
Overpayment salaries, etc.	Irrecoverable		637
Lands and Survey—
Bad debts	Irrecoverable		307
Livestock	Died, etc.	137,368
Stores	Gratuitous issues	641
Stores	Lost, broken, etc.	1,649
Stores	Lost by fire	6,370
Stores	Stolen	583
Debt remitted	Remission of claim in respect of balance of half share, boundary fencing		95
Cash	Debt remitted		18
Maori Affairs—
Advances on mortgage, etc.	Irrecoverable		1,005
Bad debts	Irrecoverable		323
Stores	Lost, broken, etc.	3,214
Stores	Miscellaneous	93
Livestock	Died, etc.	20,768
Nugatory expenditure	Miscellaneous		911
Maori Trustee—
Bad debts	Irrecoverable		3
Overpayment salaries, etc.	Irrecoverable		4
Marine—
Bad debts	Irrecoverable		1,173
Stores	Lost, broken, etc.	57
Stores	Stolen	7
Overpayment salaries, etc.	Irrecoverable		12
Mines—
Bad debts	Irrecoverable		3,461
Stores	Lost, broken, etc.	2,183
Stores	Lost by fire	593
Stores	Stolen	32
Nugatory expenditure	Compensation for damaged or lost private property		800
Debt remitted	Remission of claim in respect of overpayment of overtime		160
Ministry of Defence—
Bad debts	Irrecoverable		2,575
Cash, warrants, etc.	Stolen and lost by fire		52
Stores	Gratuitous issues	271,983
Stores	Lost, broken, etc.	10,061
Stores	Lost by fire	17,288
Stores	Stolen	1,244
Stores	Loss of loan stores, FARELF	286
Overpayment salaries, etc.	Irrecoverable		3
Stores	Miscellaneous	26
Ministry of Works—
Bad debts	Irrecoverable		844
Stores	Lost, broken, etc.	4,375
Stores	Stolen	2,012
Stores	Lost by fire	4,232
Nugatory expenditure	Miscellaneous		285
Nugatory expenditure	Compensation for damaged or lost private property		67
Overpayment salaries, etc.	Irrecoverable		94
Debt remitted	Remission of claim in respect of inspection costs due by Tourist Hotel Corporation		410
Debt remitted	Remission of claim in respect of penal interest charges		39
Debt remitted	Remission of claim in respect of balance arrears of rent		163
New Zealand Electricity—
Bad debts	Irrecoverable		314
Stores	Lost, broken, etc.	23,299
Stores	Lost by fire	7,652
Stores	Stolen	314
Overpayment salaries, etc.	Irrecoverable		11
New Zealand Electricity (New Zealand Gas Council)—
Advances and loans to industry	Irrecoverable		66,222
Debt remitted	Remission of claim in respect of balance of loan to borough council		1,500
Debt remitted	Remission of claim in respect of part cost of gas undertaking taken over by local authority		41,436
New Zealand Forest Service—
Bad debts	Irrecoverable		12,632
Stores	Lost, broken, etc.	1,105
Stores	Lost by fire	278
Stores	Stolen	137
Livestock	Died, etc.	2
Overpayment salaries, etc.	Irrecoverable		31
Stores	Gratuitous issues	123
Nugatory expenditure	Miscellaneous		200
Cash, warrants, etc.	Stolen		6
Police—
Stores	Lost, broken, etc.	258
Cash, warrants, etc.	Stolen		28
Post Office—
Bad debts	Irrecoverable		18,361
Cash, stamps, etc.	Stolen		4,493
Overpayment salaries, etc.	Irrecoverable		235
Stores	Lost, broken, etc.	4,027
Stores	Stolen	1,500
Stores	Lost by fire	280
Nugatory expenditure	Miscellaneous		2,941
Railways—
Bad debts	Irrecoverable		1,212
Stores	Lost, broken, etc.	15,047
Stores	Lost by fire	3,783
Stores	Stolen	1,469
Overpayment salaries, etc.	Irrecoverable	39	68
Stores	Gratuitous issues
Debt remitted	Remission of claim for damage to tarpaulins		77
Scientific and Industrial Research—
Stores	Stolen	17
Stores	Lost by fire	1,364
Stores	Lost, broken, etc.	20
Stores	Gratuitous issues	400
Livestock	Died, etc.	38
Cash, warrants, etc.	Stolen
Social Security—
Bad debts	Irrecoverable		3
Stores	Lost, broken, etc.	152
Overpayment salaries, benefits, etc.	Irrecoverable		3,082
Cash, warrants, etc.	Stolen		620
Advances to ex-servicemen	Irrecoverable		714
State Advances Corporation—
Housing Account— Bad debts	Irrecoverable		6,642
State Insurance Office—
Cash, warrants, etc.	Stolen		30
Tourist and Publicity—
Bad debts	Irrecoverable		1,326
Stores	Lost, broken, etc.	251
Stores	Miscellaneous	5
Stores	Lost by fire	5
Transport—
Bad debts	Irrecoverable		864
Stores	Lost, broken, etc.	831
Stores	Stolen	9
Nugatory expenditure	Miscellaneous		20
Cash	Debts remitted		12
Treasury—
Advances on mortgage, etc.	Irrecoverable		38
Overpayment salaries, etc.	Irrecoverable		617
		558,421	255,744
TOTAL		£ 814,165

SIXTH SCHEDULE Transfers Authorised From National Development Loans Account for the Year 1965–66

Section 7

Account	Amount
	£
The Post Office Account	7,000,000
The State Advances Corporation of New Zealand Account	28,000,000
The Works and Trading Account	65,000,000
TOTAL	£100,000,000

This Act is administered in the Treasury.

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