Grant and appropriation of $2,385,998,000 out of Consolidated Revenue Account

Grant and appropriation of $651,457,000 out of Works and Trading Account

Grant and appropriation of $278,582,000 out of accounts outside the Public Account

Indemnity as to unauthorised expenditure of $29,934,096

Authority to write off losses of public money and public stores amounting to $2,286,398

Authority to transfer $434,500,000 from National Development Loans Account to other accounts

FIRST SCHEDULE Approriations Out of Consolidated Revenue Account for the Year 1974–75

SECOND SCHEDULE Approriations Out of Works and Trading Account for the Year 1974-75

THIRD SCHEDULE Appropriations Out of Accounts Outside the Public Account for the Year 1974–75

FOURTH SCHEDULE Unauthorised Expenditure Statement for the Year 1973–74

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

SIXTH SCHEDULE Transfers Authorised from National Development Loans Account for the Year 1974–75

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Appropriation Act 1974

Public Act		1974 No 140
Date of assent		8 November 1974

	Title
1	Short Title
2	Grant and appropriation of $2,385,998,000 out of Consolidated Revenue Account
3	Grant and appropriation of $651,457,000 out of Works and Trading Account
4	Grant and appropriation of $278,582,000 out of accounts outside the Public Account
5	Indemnity as to unauthorised expenditure of $29,934,096
6	Authority to write off losses of public money and public stores amounting to $2,286,398
7	Authority to transfer $434,500,000 from National Development Loans Account to other accounts
	FIRST SCHEDULE Approriations Out of Consolidated Revenue Account for the Year 1974–75
	SECOND SCHEDULE Approriations Out of Works and Trading Account for the Year 1974-75
	THIRD SCHEDULE Appropriations Out of Accounts Outside the Public Account for the Year 1974–75
	FOURTH SCHEDULE Unauthorised Expenditure Statement for the Year 1973–74
	FIFTH SCHEDULE Amounts Written OFF (for details see B. 7 [Pt. 1])
	SIXTH SCHEDULE Transfers Authorised from National Development Loans Account for the Year 1974–75
	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 1975, and to appropriate the supplies granted in this year

MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIG—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 1974.

(2)

This Act relates to the year ending with the 31st day of March 1975 (hereinafter referred to as this year).

2 Grant and appropriation of $2,385,998,000 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 $2,385,998,000.

(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 $651,457,000 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 $651,457,000.

(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 $278,582,000 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 $278,582,000.

(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 $29,934,096

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 1974, 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 $29,934,096, 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 $2,286,398

Whereas the losses of public money and public stores specified in the Fifth Schedule to this Act have occurred, amounting in the whole to $2,286,398: 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 $434,500,000 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 $434,500,000.

SCHEDULES

FIRST SCHEDULE Approriations Out of Consolidated Revenue Account for the Year 1974–75

Section 2(2)

Page No. B. 7 [Pt. 1]	Vote	SERVICE	Appropriation
			$(000)
18	1	Accident Compensation	21
19	2	Agriculture and Fisheries (Programmes I to VIII)	80,400
30	3	Audit	1,790
33	4	Broadcasting	82
34	5	Crown Law	408
37	6	Customs	6,370
43	7	Defence	159,050
60	8	Education	507,800
80	9	Energy Resources	225
83	10	Foreign Affairs (Programmes I to V)	47,555
95	11	Forest Service (Programmes I and II)	6,680
105	12	Government Printing Office	14,725
111	13	Health (Programmes I to IX)	463,745
126	14	Inland Revenue	15,965
131	15	Internal Affairs	24,515
144	16	Justice (Programmes I to VIII)	28,175
153	17	Labour	11,135
161	18	Lands and Survey (Programmes I to III)	13,310
170	19	Legislative	2,430
174	20	Maori and Island Affairs (Programmes I to VI)	13,388
184	21	Mines (Programme I)	3,174
190	22	Police (Programmes I and II)	38,495
202	23	Prime Minister’s Department	455
219	24	Rural Banking and Finance Corporation	13
220	25	Scientific and Industrial Research (Programme I)	22,095
226	26	Security Intelligence Service	728
227	27	Social Welfare	698,690
237	28	Stabilisation	97,700
238	29	State Advances Corporation	33
242	30	State Services Commission	8,730
		Carried forward	2,267,882
247	31	Statistics	5,105
252	32	Tourist and Publicity	8,130
260	33	Trade and Industry	14,900
271	34	Transport (Programmes I to V)	45,281
283	35	Treasury	3,980
288	36	Valuation	4,220
291	37	Works and Development (Programmes I to IV)	36,500
		TOTAL	2,385,998

SECOND SCHEDULE Approriations Out of Works and Trading Account for the Year 1974-75

Section 3(2)

Page No. B. 7 [Pt. 1]	Vote	SERVICE	Appropriation
			$(000)
19	2	Agriculture and Fisheries (Programme IX)	2,200
73	38	Electric Supply	191,555
83	10	Foreign Affairs (Programme VI)	5,000
95	11	Forest Service (Programmes III and IV)	62,520
111	13	Health (Programmes X and XI)	4,120
144	16	Justice (Programme IX)	4,600
161	18	Lands and Survey (Programme IV)	36,490
174	20	Maori and Island Affairs (Programmes VII and VIII)	18,712
184	21	Mines (Programme II)	20,551
190	22	Police (Programme III)	3,600
208	39	Railways	199,400
220	25	Scientific and Industrial Research (Programme II)	2,000
271	34	Transport (Programme VI)	4,209
291	37	Works and Development (Programmes V to IX)	96,500
		TOTAL	651,457

THIRD SCHEDULE Appropriations Out of Accounts Outside the Public Account for the Year 1974–75

Section 4

Page No. B. 7 [Pt. 1]	Vote	SERVICE	Appropriation
		EARTHQUAKE AND WAR DAMAGE FUND	$(000)
58	40	Earthquake and War Damage	87
		GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE ACCOUNT
102	41	Government Life Insurance	3,195
		POST OFFICE ACCOUNT
195	42	Post Office	263,790
		PUBLIC TRUSTEE’S ACCOUNT
205	43	Public Trust Office	5,800
		STATE INSURANCE ACCOUNT
239	44	State Insurance Office	5,710
		TOTAL	278,582

FOURTH SCHEDULE Unauthorised Expenditure Statement for the Year 1973–74

Section 5

CONSOLIDATED REVENUE ACCOUNT	$	$	$
FO SERVICES NOT PROVIDED FOR—
Department of Justice—
Ex gratia payment towards solicitors’ costs in an appeal for wrongful suspension		4,000
Department of Maori and Island Affairs—
Expenses of performing groups at New Zealand Day celebrations, Waitangi		16,923
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries—
Late payment under the Dairy Board incentive scheme		360
Ministry of Foreign Affairs—
New Zealand’s contribution to United Nations emergency fund in the Middle East		59,109
Ministry of Transport—
Preliminary expenses incurred on behalf of Shipping Corporation of New Zealand Ltd.		8,564
State Services Commission—
Ex gratia payment of officer’s legal costs		153
Department of Trade and Industry—
Subsidy to Wheat Board to meet accumulated deficit in the Wheat Account		5,882,000
		5,971,109
FOR SERVICES IN EXCESS OF VOTE—
Vote—Accident Compensation	2,237
Vote—Broadcasting	10,737
Vote—Crown Law	30,073
Vote—Customs	129,015
Vote—Energy Resources	10,242
Vote—Forest Service (Programmes I and II)	201,243
Vote—Government Printing Office	398,363
Vote—Justice	14,627
Vote—Legislative	18,488
Vote—Maori and Island Affairs (Programmes I to VI)	110,299
Vote—Scientific and Industrial Research	218,843
Vote—Social Welfare	13,203,116
Vote—Stabilisation	4,730,119
Vote—State Services Commission	2,183,529
Vote—Statistics	118,495
		21,379,426
Total, Consolidated Revenue Account			27,350,535
Carried forward			27,350,535
Brought forward			27,350,535
WORKS AND TRADING ACCOUNT
FOR SERVICES IN EXCESS OF VOTES
Vote—Maori and Island Affairs (Programmes VII and VIII)		1,187,529
Vote—Railways		1,348,276
			2,535,805
NATIONAL ROADS FUND
Ex gratia payments in lieu of refunds of motor spirits duty, etc.		92
Entertainment expenses		2,020
Study award contributions and scholarships, etc.		1,000
			3,112
ACCOUNTS OUTSIDE THE PUBLIC ACCOUNT
EARTHQUAKE AND WAR DAMAGE FUND
FOR SERVICES IN EXCESS OF VOTES
Vote—Earthquake and War Damage			18,493
STATE INSURANCE ACCOUNT
FOR SERVICES IN EXCESS OF VOTES
Vote—State Insurance Office			26,151
			$29,934,096

SUMMARY

	Unauthorised Authority (Section 51(4) of the Public Revenues Act 1953, as substituted by Section 5 of the Public Revenues Amendment Act 1970)	Amount Expended
Unauthorised Expenditure	$	$
For all services	43,434,630	29,934,096

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

Section 6

Department	Value of Stores, etc.	Cash
	$	$
Customs		21,133
Education	5,129	9,309
Government Printing Office	9,176	475
Health	2,529	186
Inland Revenue	12	448,109
Internal Affairs	196
Justice	31,256	2,775
Labour	377	1,538
Lands and Survey	389,171	1,899
Maori and Island Affairs	187,717	26,734
Mines	8,596	2,020
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries	14,321	16,711
Ministry of Defence	115,980	13,110
Ministry of Foreign Affairs	9	5,965
Ministry of Transport	4,447	16,922
Ministry of Works and Development	51,546	18,551
New Zealand Electricity	33,069	6,718
New Zealand Forest Service	15,113	19,245
Police	8,129	194
Post Office	35,704	290,337
Railways	280,297	8,243
Scientific and Industrial Research		444
Social Welfare	76	62,080
State Advances Corporation		58,832
State Insurance		69
Statistics		48
Tourist and Publicity	150	5,853
Trade and Industry	7,212	1,492
Treasury		47,003
Valuation		191
Totals	1,200,212	1,086,186
Total	$2,286,398

SIXTH SCHEDULE Transfers Authorised from National Development Loans Account for the Year 1974–75

Section 7

Account	Amount
	$(000)
The Post Office Account	25,000
The State Advances Corporation of New Zealand Account	109,500
The Works and Trading Account	300,000
TOTAL	434,500

This Act is administered in the Treasury.

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