	Title
1	Short Title
2	Grant and appropriation of $1,330,581,000 out of Consolidated Revenue Account
3	Grant and appropriation of $380,145,000 out of Works and Trading Account
4	Grant and appropriation of $174,850,000 out of accounts outside the Public Account
5	Indemnity as to unauthorised expenditure of $42,786,997
6	Authority to write off losses of public money and public stores amounting to $1,390,578
7	Authority to transfer $250,000,000 from National Development Loans Account to other accounts
	FIRST SCHEDULE Appropriations Out of Consolidated Revenue Account for the Year 1971–72
	SECOND SCHEDULE Appropriations Out of Works and Trading Account for the Year 1971–72
	THIRD SCHEDULE Appropriations Out of Accounts Outside the Public Account for the Year 1971–72
	FOURTH SCHEDULE Unauthorised Expenditure Statement for the Year 1970–71
	FIFTH SCHEDULE Amounts Written Off (for details see B. 7 [Pt. 1])
	SIXTH SCHEDULE Transfers Authorised From National Development Loans Account for the Year 1971–72
	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 31st day of March 1972, 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 1971.

(2)

This Act relates to the year ending with the 31st day of March 1972 (hereinafter referred to as this year).

2 Grant and appropriation of $1,330,581,000 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 $1,330,581,000.

(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 $380,145,000 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 $380,145,000.

(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.

4 Grant and appropriation of $174,850,000 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 $174,850,000.

(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 $42,786,997

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 31st day of March 1971, 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 $42,786,997, 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 $1,390,578

Whereas the losses of public money and public stores specified in the Fifth Schedule to this Act have occurred, amounting in the whole to $1,390,578: 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 $250,000,000 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 $250,000,000.

SCHEDULES

FIRST SCHEDULE Appropriations Out of Consolidated Revenue Account for the Year 1971–72

Section 2(2)

Page No. B. 7 [Pt. I]	Vote	SERVICE	Appropriation
			$(000)
166	1	Legislative	1,300
16	2	Agriculture	62,770
25	3	Audit	1,000
28	4	Broadcasting	24
29	5	Crown Law	230
32	6	Customs	3,610
38	7	Defence	110,450
51	8	Education	280,750
71	9	Foreign Affairs	17,420
82	10	Forest Service (Programmes I and II)	3,750
92	11	Government Printing Office	8,610
98	12	Health	266,200
115	13	Industries and Commerce	4,535
126	14	Inland Revenue	8,720
131	15	Internal Affairs	11,000
142	16	Justice	14,300
150	17	Labour	6,530
157	18	Lands and Survey (Programmes I to III)	6,340
170	19	Maori and Island Affairs (Programmes I to VI)	8,500
180	20	Marine	4,260
188	21	Mines (Programme I)	1,350
194	22	Police	20,270
206	23	Prime Minister’s Department	70
213	24	Public Works and Services	48,700
222	25	Roads, etc.	2,300
223	26	Scientific and Industrial Research	12,560
208	27	Security Intelligence Service	394
231	28	Social Security	329,000
238	29	Stabilisation	22,000
239	30	State Advances Corporation	8
243	31	State Services Commission	1,030
247	32	Statistics	3,130
251	33	Tourist and Publicity	7,220
262	34	Transport (Programmes I to IV)	20,550
258	35	Treasury	2,560
274	36	Valuation	2,440
277	37	War and other Pensions	36,700
		TOTAL	1,330,581

SECOND SCHEDULE Appropriations Out of Works and Trading Account for the Year 1971–72

Section 3(2)

Page No. B. 7 [Pt. I]	Vote	SERVICE	Appropriation
			$(000)
65	38	Electric Supply	106,000
82	10	Forest Service (Programmes III and IV)	35,000
113	39	Housing Construction	12,000
157	18	Lands and Survey (Programme IV)	26,280
170	19	Maori and Island Affairs (Programmes VII and VIII)	11,330
188	21	Mines (Programme II)	13,630
209	40	Public Buildings	18,005
221	41	Railway Construction	6,000
262	34	Transport (Programme V)	6,250
273	42	University and Technical Institute Buildings	17,650
281	43	Working Railways	128,000
		TOTAL	380,145

THIRD SCHEDULE Appropriations Out of Accounts Outside the Public Account for the Year 1971–72

Section 4

Page No. B. 7 [Pt. I]	Vote	ACCOUNT AND SERVICE	Appropriation
		EARTHQUAKE AND WAR DAMAGE FUND	$(000)
49	44	Earthquake and War Damage	230
		GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE ACCOUNT
89	45	Government Life Insurance	1,850
		POST OFFICE ACCOUNT
199	46	Post Office	165,400
		PUBLIC TRUSTEE’S ACCOUNT
210	47	Public Trust Office	3,820
		STATE INSURANCE ACCOUNT
240	48	State Insurance Office	3,550
		TOTAL	174,850

FOURTH SCHEDULE Unauthorised Expenditure Statement for the Year 1970–71

Section 5

CONSOLIDATED REVENUE ACCOUNT	$	$	$
For Services Not Provided For
Department of Health—
Expenses of delegates from Commonwealth countries to the Fourth Asia and Oceanic Congress of Endocrinology		1,344
Ministry of Transport—
Ex gratia payment of legal costs resulting from libel action		1,927
Tourist and Publicity Department—
Additional grant to Tourist Hotel Corporation for working capital		300,000
		303,271
For Services in Excess of Votes
Vote—Audit	8,458
Vote—Crown Law	29,745
Vote—Customs	270,834
Vote—Defence	6,345,098
Vote—Education	7,092,012
Vote—Forest Service	162,387
Vote—Government Printing Office	628,665
Vote—Health	4,450,555
Vote—Industries and Commerce	82,404
Vote—Inland Revenue	635,760
Vote—Internal Affairs	437,132
Vote—Justice	867,479
Vote—Labour	252,469
Vote—Lands and Survey	488,437
Vote—Legislative	102,624
Vote—Maori and Island Affairs	283,914
Vote—Police	1,771,358
Vote—Prime Minister’s Department	7,396
Vote—Public Works and Services	4,353,553
Vote—Scientific and Industrial Research	404,305
Vote—Security Intelligence Service	41,674
Vote—Social Security	4,638,159
Vote—Stabilisation	1,207,651
Vote—State Services Commission	40,503
Vote—Statistics	169,344
Vote—Tourist and Publicity	95,236
Vote—Transport	1,408,738
Vote—Treasury	131,682
Vote—Valuation	136,973
Total, Consolidated Revenue Account		36,544,545	36,847,816
WORKS AND TRADING ACCOUNT
For Services in Excess of Votes
Vote—Forest Development		588,228
Vote—Railway Construction		11,352
Vote—University and Technical Institute Buildings		1,198,831
Vote—Working Railways		265,819	2,064,230
NATIONAL ROADS FUND
Ex gratia payments in lieu of motor spirits duty, etc.		2,138
Bridge, highway, and motorway openings		931
Entertainment expenses		902
Study award contributions and scholarships, etc.		2,134	6,105
ACCOUNTS OUTSIDE THE PUBLIC ACCOUNT
EARTHQUAKE AND WAR DAMAGE FUND
For Services in Excess of Votes
Vote—Earthquake and War Damage			40,331
GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE ACCOUNT
For Services in Excess of Votes
Vote—Government Life Insurance			79,425
POST OFFICE ACCOUNT
For Services in Excess of Votes
Vote—Post Office Working Expenses			3,492,825
STATE INSURANCE ACCOUNT
For Services in Excess of Votes
Vote—State Insurance Office			256,265
			$42,786,997

SUMMARY

—	Unauthorised Authority (Section 51(4) of the Public Revenues Act 1953, as amended by Section 5 of the Public Revenues Amendment Act 1970)	Amount Expended
Unauthorised Expenditure	$	$
For all services	42,792,050	42,786,997

FIFTH SCHEDULE Amounts Written Off (for details see B. 7 [Pt. 1])

Section 6

Department	Value of Stores, etc.	Cash
	$	$
Agriculture	4,688	19,148
Customs	2,172	5,579
Education	1,793	52,376
Government Life Insurance Office	70
Government Printing Office	1,428
Health	10,481	9,761
Industries and Commerce	81	10
Inland Revenue	2	253,937
Internal Affairs	3	191
Justice	14,373	641
Labour	926	841
Lands and Survey	316,794	1,716
Maori and Island Affairs	103,136	26,702
Marine	862	1,327
Mines	13,652	2,907
Ministry of Defence	29,286	9,414
Ministry of Foreign Affairs		5,721
Ministry of Transport	219	5,005
Ministry of Works	50,753	16,825
New Zealand Electricity	13,357	52,181
New Zealand Forest Service	4,907	21,088
Police	45
Post Office	32,854	138,557
Railways	71,244	6,598
Scientific and Industrial Research	1,859	235
Social Security		20,479
State Advances Corporation		44,653
Statistics		124
Tourist and Publicity	7,055	11,679
Treasury		748
Valuation	5	90
Totals	682,045	708,533
Total	$1,390,578

SIXTH SCHEDULE Transfers Authorised From National Development Loans Account for the Year 1971–72

Section 7

Account	Amount
	$(000)
The Post Office Account	25,000
The State Advances Corporation of New Zealand Account	70,000
The Works and Trading Account	155,000
TOTAL	250,000

This Act is administered in the Treasury.

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