	Title
1	Short Title
2	Grant and appropriation of $2,958,032,000 out of Consolidated Revenue Account
3	Grant and appropriation of $724,077,000 out of Works and Trading Account
4	Grant and appropriation of $327,681,000 out of accounts outside the Public Account
5	Indemnity as to unauthorised expenditure of $171,159,513
6	Authority to write off losses of public money and public stores amounting to $2,792,297
7	Authority to transfer $537,000,000 from National Development Loans Account to other accounts
	FIRST SCHEDULE Appropriations out of Consolidated Revenue Account for the Year 1975–76
	SECOND SCHEDULE Appropriations Out of Works and Trading Account for the Year 1975–76
	THIRD SCHEDULE Appropriations out of Accounts Outside the Public Account For the Year 1975–76
	FOURTH SCHEDULE Unauthorised Expenditure Statement for the Year 1974–75
	FIFTH SCHEDULE Amounts Written Off (for details see B. 7 [Pt. I])
	SIXTH SCHEDULE Transfers Authorised From National Development Loans Account for the Year 1975–76
	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 1976, 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 1975.

(2)

This Act relates to the year ending with the 31st day of March 1976 (hereinafter referred to as this year).

2 Grant and appropriation of $2,958,032,000 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 $2,958,032,000.

(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 $724,077,000 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 $724,077,000.

(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 $327,681,000 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 $327,681,000.

(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 $171,159,513

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 1975, 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 $171,159,513, 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 $2,792,297

Whereas the losses of public money and public stores specified in the Fifth Schedule to this Act have occurred, amounting in the whole to $2,792,297: 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 $537,000,000 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 $537,000,000.

SCHEDULES

FIRST SCHEDULE Appropriations out of Consolidated Revenue Account for the Year 1975–76

Section 2(2)

Page No. B. 7 [Pt. I]	Vote	SERVICE	Appropriation
			$(000)
18	1	Accident Compensation	23
19	2	Agriculture and Fisheries (Programmes I to VIII)	177,300
30	3	Audit	1,975
33	4	Broadcasting	82
34	5	Crown Law	478
37	6	Customs	7,370
43	7	Defence	179,200
60	8	Education	595,350
80	9	Energy Resources	655
83	10	Foreign Affairs (Programmes I to VI)	78,880
96	11	Forest Service (Programmes I and II)	7,552
106	12	Government Printing Office	15,360
112	13	Health (Programmes I to IX)	558,050
127	14	Housing Corporation	33
128	15	Inland Revenue	20,120
134	16	Internal Affairs	29,115
149	17	Justice (Programmes I to VIII)	34,000
158	18	Labour	12,850
166	19	Lands and Survey (Programmes I to III)	15,086
176	20	Legislative	2,815
180	21	Maori Affairs (Programmes I to IV)	6,165
189	22	Mines (Programme I)	3,500
195	23	Police (Programmes I and II) Prime Minister’s Department	45,700
207	24		705
225	25	Rural Banking and Finance Corporation	13
226	26	Scientific and Industrial Research (Programme I)	26,600
233	27	Security Intelligence Service	785
234	28	Social Welfare	812,300
244	29	Stabilisation	157,200
248	30	State Services Commission (Programmes I to III)	23,200
253	31	Statistics	6,300
258	32	Tourist and Publicity	9,060
266	33	Trade and Industry	18,540
277	34	Transport (Programmes I to V)	52,558
289	35	Treasury	4,150
294	36	Valuation	4,860
297	37	Works and Development (Programmes I to IV)	50,102
		TOTAL	2,958,032

SECOND SCHEDULE Appropriations Out of Works and Trading Account for the Year 1975–76

Section 3(2)

Page No. B. 7 [Pt I]	Vote	SERVICE	Appropriation
			$(000)
19	2	Agriculture and Fisheries (Programme IX)	3,200
73	38	Electric Supply	218,700
83	10	Foreign Affairs (Programme VII)	2,200
96	11	Forest Service (Programmes III and IV)	71,448
112	13	Health (Programmes X and XI)	4,250
149	17	Justice (Programme IX)	6,500
166	19	Lands and Survey (Programme IV)	39,564
180	21	Maori Affairs (Programmes VII and VIII)	36,085
189	22	Mines (Programme II)	31,900
195	23	Police (Programme III)	4,500
214	39	Railways	245,800
226	26	Scientific and Industrial Research (Programme II)	3,500
248	30	State Services Commission (Programme IV)	7,200
277	34	Transport (Programme VI)	5,182
297	37	Works and Development (Programmes V to VIII)	44,048
		TOTAL	724,077

THIRD SCHEDULE Appropriations out of Accounts Outside the Public Account For the Year 1975–76

Section 4

Page No. B. 7 [Pt. I]	Vote	SERVICE	Appropriation
		EARTHQUAKE AND WAR DAMAGE FUND	$(000)
58	40	Earthquake and War Damage	86
		GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE ACCOUNT
103	41	Government Life Insurance	4,255
		POST OFFICE ACCOUNT
200	42	Post Office	310,000
		PUBLIC TRUSTEE’S ACCOUNT
211	43	Public Trust Office	6,260
		STATE INSURANCE ACCOUNT
245	44	State Insurance Office	7,080
		TOTAL	327,681

FOURTH SCHEDULE Unauthorised Expenditure Statement for the Year 1974–75

Section 5

	$	$	$
CONSOLIDATED REVENUE ACCOUNT
For Services Not Provided For—
Crown Law Office—
Overseas travel expenses incurred attending Privy Council appeal		5,527
Department of Health—
Ex gratia payment of part of an officer’s legal costs incurred in 1961		1,565
Legislative Department—
Payments to widow of a former Prime Minister		4,208
Mines Department—
Ex gratia payment to Kaitangata Borough Council		6,000
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries—
Loans under the special agricultural assistance fund	2,000
Fertiliser and lime bounty payments	1,187,886	1,189,886
		1,189,886
Ministry of Foreign Affairs—
Preliminary expenses in respect of International Women’s year		477
Ministry of Transport—
New Zealand’s contribution towards costs of South Pacific Air Transport Council for year 1974–75	107,250
New Zealand’s contribution by way of interest free loan towards the cost of the Nadi Airport upgrading project	250,000	357,250
		357,250
Department of Trade and Industry—
Subsidy to eliminate deficit in the Sugar Stabilisation Account at 31 March 1975	2,127,000
Subsidy to Wheat Board towards meeting deficit in board’s operating pool account at 31 March 1975	10,000,000
Payment for structural adjustment assistance to industry	40,000	12,167,000
		12,167,000
The Treasury—
Ex gratia payments to former members of the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation and New Zealand Broadcasting Authority	6,200
Acquisition of 5,000,000 ordinary shares of $1.00 each in Bank of New Zealand	5,000,000	5,006,200
		5,006,200
		18,738,113
For Services in Excess of Votes—
Vote—Accident Compensation	1,427
Vote—Agriculture and Fisheries (Programmes I to VIII)	202,479
Vote—Crown Law	7,749
Vote—Customs	266,057
Vote—Defence	6,303,942
Vote—Education	22,003,189
Vote—Foreign Affairs (Programmes I to V)	128,085
Vote—Forest Service (Programmes I and II)	105,372
Vote—Government Printing Office	1,859,230
Vote—Health (Programmes I to IX)	13,532,423
Vote—Inland Revenue	879,826
Vote—Internal Affairs	123,520
Vote—Justice (Programmes I to VIII)	1,447,592
Vote—Labour	338,730
Vote—-Maori and Island Affairs (Programmes I to VI)	169,952
Vote—Police (Programmes I and II)	1,472,606
Vote—Scientific and Industrial Research (Programme	804,205
Vote—Security Intelligence Service	310
Vote—Social Welfare	8,518,180
Vote—-Stabilisation	24,302,390
Vote—Tourist and Publicity	109,371
Vote—Trade and Industry	353,410
Vote—Transport (Programmes I to V)	528,310
Vote—Valuation	464,275
	10,931,298	94,853,928
Total, Consolidated Revenue Account		94,853,928	113,592,041
WORKS AND TRADING ACCOUNT
For Services in Excess of Votes
Vote—Agriculture and Fisheries (Programme IX)		1.347,543
Vote—Electric Supply		20,122,511
Vote—Maori and Island Affairs (Programmes VII and VIII)		5,988,548
Vote—Railways		16,268,329
Vote—Works and Development (Programmes V-IX)		3,365,143	47,092,074
			47,092,074
NATIONAL ROADS FUND
Ex gratia payments in lieu of refunds of motor spirits duty, etc.		332
Entertainment expenses		976
Study award contributions and scholarships, etc.		1,749
Bridge, highway, and motorway openings		1,137	4,194
ACCOUNTS OUTSIDE THE PUBLIC ACCOUNT			4,194
GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE ACCOUNT
For Services in Excess of Votes
Vote—Government Life Insurance			60,278
POST OFFICE ACCOUNT
For Services in Excess of Votes
Vote—Post Office			10,410,926
			$171,159,513

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	51,336,330	171,159,513

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

Section 6

Department	Value of Stores, etc.	Cash
	$	$
Customs	10	13,327
Education	2,663	33,102
Government Printing Office	4,307
Health	5,158	22,252
Housing Corporation		65,853
Inland Revenue	8	572,551
Internal Affairs	530	389
Justice	22,253	1,909
Labour	536	2,174
Lands and Survey	672,303	3,532
Maori and Island Affairs	197,563	37,833
Mines	2,305	3,038
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries	17,149	5,526
Ministry of Defence	158,939	7,385
Ministry of Foreign Affairs		1,759
Ministry of Transport	6,796	14,196
Ministry of Works	51,493	7,692
New Zealand Electricity	36,394	5,002
New Zealand Forest Service	17,369	13,034
Police	1,122	3,446
Post Office	16,457	301,282
Railways	290,970	24,157
Scientific and Industrial Research	290	556
Social Welfare	188	139,193
State Insurance		50
State Services Commission		229
Statistics		6,799
Tourist and Publicity		76
Treasury	960	22
Valuation		170
Totals	1,505,763	1,286,534
TOTAL	$2,792,297

SIXTH SCHEDULE Transfers Authorised From National Development Loans Account for the Year 1975–76

Section 7

Account	Amount
	$(000)
The Post Office Account	25,000
The Housing Corporation of New Zealand Account	162,000
The Works and Trading Account	350,000
TOTAL	537,000

This Act is administered in the Treasury

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