	Title
1	Short Title
2	Grant and appropriation of $5,261,909,000 out of Consolidated Account
3	Grant and appropriation of $760,170,000 out of Loans Account
4	Grant and appropriation of $951,111,000 out of accounts outside the Public Account
5	Transfers from Loans Account to Consolidated Account not to exceed $450,000,000
6	Unauthorised expenditure of $58,573,888 sanctioned
7	Writing off of losses of public money and public stores amounting to $3,344,203
8	Repeals
	FIRST SCHEDULE Appropriations Out of Consolidated Account for the Year 1978–79
	SECOND SCHEDULE Appropriations Out of Loans Account for the Year 1978–79
	THIRD SCHEDULE Appropriations Out of Accounts Outside the Public Account for the Year 1978–79
	FOURTH SCHEDULE Unauthorised Expenditure Statement for the Year 1977–78
	FIFTH SCHEDULE Amounts Written Off
	SIXTH SCHEDULE Enactments Repealed
	Administrative information

An Act to issue and apply certain sums of money out of the Public Account and other accounts to the service of the year ending with the 31st day of March 1979, and to appropriate the supply 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 1978.

(2)

This Act relates to the year ending with the 31st day of March 1979 (hereinafter referred to as this year).

2 Grant and appropriation of $5,261,909,000 out of Consolidated Account

(1)

The Minister of Finance may issue and apply out of the Consolidated Account, towards making good the supply granted to Her Majesty for the service of this year, any sums which, together with the sums that have been issued and applied out of the Consolidated Account during this year under section 54 of the Public Finance Act 1977 and the Imprest Supply Acts passed during this year, do not exceed the sum of $5,261,909,000.

(2)

The sums to which subsection (1) of this section relates are hereby appropriated for the services and purposes expressed in the several votes specified in the First Schedule to this Act.

3 Grant and appropriation of $760,170,000 out of Loans Account

(1)

The Minister of Finance may issue and apply out of the Loans Account, towards making good the supply granted to Her Majesty for the service of this year, any sums which, together with the sums that have been issued and applied out of the Loans Account during this year under section 54 of the Public Finance Act 1977 and the Imprest Supply Acts passed during this year, do not exceed the sum of $760,170,000.

(2)

The sums to which subsection (1) of this section relates are hereby appropriated for the services and purposes expressed in the several votes specified in the Second Schedule to this Act.

4 Grant and appropriation of $951,111,000 out of accounts outside the Public Account

(1)

The Minister of Finance may issue and apply out of the accounts outside the Public Account specified in the Third Schedule to this Act, towards making good the supply granted to Her Majesty for the service of this year, any sums which, together with the sums that have been issued and applied out of those accounts during this year under sections 54 and 68 of the Public Finance Act 1977 and the Imprest Supply Acts passed during this year, do not exceed the sum of $951,111,000.

(2)

The sums to which subsection (1) of this section relates are hereby appropriated for the services and purposes expressed in the several votes specified in the Third Schedule to this Act.

5 Transfers from Loans Account to Consolidated Account not to exceed $450,000,000

The maximum amount that may be transferred from the Loans Account to the Consolidated Account in respect of this year shall be $450,000,000.

6 Unauthorised expenditure of $58,573,888 sanctioned

Whereas the Minister of Finance has, under the authority of sections 51 and 76 of the Public Revenues Act 1953, approved the expenditure during the year that ended with the 31st day of March 1978, in excess of or without the appropriation of Parliament, of the respective sums specified in the Fourth Schedule to this Act, out of the accounts within the Public Account and the other accounts specified in that Schedule, amounting in the whole to the sum of $58,573,888: And whereas those sums have been issued and applied for the several services and purposes specified in that Schedule: Be it therefore enacted that the issue and application of those sums is hereby sanctioned.

7 Writing off of losses of public money and public stores amounting to $3,344,203

Whereas the losses of public money and public stores specified in the Fifth Schedule to this Act have occurred, amounting in the whole to $3,344,203: Be it therefore enacted that the amounts specified in that Schedule are hereby written off.

8 Repeals

The enactments specified in the Sixth Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed.

SCHEDULES

FIRST SCHEDULE Appropriations Out of Consolidated Account for the Year 1978–79

Section 2(2)

Estimates (B. 7 [Pt. 1]) Page No.	Vote No.	VOTE	Appropriation
			$(000)
16	1	Accident Compensation	31
17	2	Agriculture and Fisheries	267,550
29	3	Audit	2,865
32	4	Broadcasting	120
33	5	Building Performance Guarantee Corporation	20
35	6	Commission for the Environment	530
38	7	Crown Law	720
41	8	Customs	12,135
47	9	Defence	280,710
65	10	Education	847,520
79	11	Energy (part vote)	20,053
90	12	Foreign Affairs	90,440
105	13	Forest Service	128,560
115	14	Government Printing Office	22,900
120	15	Health	897,840
134	16	Housing Corporation (Programmes I and II)	70,320
136	17	Inland Revenue	29,220
142	18	Internal Affairs	48,100
155	19	Justice	66,660
165	20	Labour	74,755
174	21	Lands and Survey	77,760
184	22	Legislative	5,385
188	23	Maori Affairs	55,290
196	24	Police	83,725
208	25	Prime Minister’s Department	965
226	26	Rural Banking and Finance Corporation (Programmes I and II)	9,900
228	27	Scientific and Industrial Research	42,785
235	28	Security Intelligence Service	1,460
236	29	Social Welfare	1,713,380
246	30	Stabilisation	85,940
250	31	State Services Commission	44,390
255	32	Statistics	8,210
260	33	Tourist and Publicity	13,820
268	34	Trade and Industry	27,285
279	35	Transport	91,625
292	36	Treasury	6,600
297	37	Valuation	6,880
300	38	Works and Development	125,460
		TOTAL	5,261,909

SECOND SCHEDULE Appropriations Out of Loans Account for the Year 1978–79

Section 3(2)

Estimates (B. 7 [Pt. 1]) Page No.	Vote No.	VOTE	Appropriation
			$(000)
34	39	Capital Participation in Crown and other organisations	26,220
79	11	Energy (part vote)	281,100
134	16	Housing Corporation (Programmes III and IV)	224,000
201	40	Post Office (part vote)	13,000
215	41	Railways (part vote)	52,850
226	26	Rural Banking and Finance Corporation (Programme III)	163,000
		TOTAL	760,170

THIRD SCHEDULE Appropriations Out of Accounts Outside the Public Account for the Year 1978–79

Section 4

Estimates (B. 7 [Pt. 1]) Page No.	Vote No.	VOTE	Appropriation
		EARTHQUAKE AND WAR DAMAGE FUND	$(000)
63	42	Earthquake and War Damage	104
		ENERGY ACCOUNT
79	11	Energy (part vote)	186,657
		GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE ACCOUNT
112	43	Government Life Insurance	5,610
		POST OFFICE ACCOUNT
201	40	Post Office (part vote)	437,170
		PUBLIC TRUSTEE’S ACCOUNT
212	44	Public Trust Office	8,520
		RAILWAYS ACCOUNT
215	41	Railways (part vote)	303,280
		STATE INSURANCE ACCOUNT
247	45	State Insurance Office	9,770
		TOTAL	951,111

FOURTH SCHEDULE Unauthorised Expenditure Statement for the Year 1977–78

Section 6

CONSOLIDATED REVENUE ACCOUNT	$	$	$
For Services and Purposes Not Provided For—
Health Department—
Ex gratia payments in reimbursement of costs incurred by Thames medical practitioners for a private medical centre	13,972
Ex gratia payment in reimbursement of costs incurred by South Canterbury Presbyterian Social Services Association Inc on conversion of the Temuka Maternity Hospital to an Old Peoples Home	7,133
		21,105
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries—
Proportion of damages and legal expenses in settlement of libel claim		10,279
Ministry of Energy—
Payment for cost of damages incurred in defamation claims		5,000
Department of Trade and Industry—
Reimbursement of New Zealand Wheat Board for financial assistance paid to small bakers after subsidy scheme terminated	271
Subsidy towards liquidation of overdraft in the Sugar Price Stabilisation Account at 31 March 1978	4,500,000
		4,500,271
		4,536,655
For Services and Purposes in Excess of Votes—
Vote—Accident Compensation	2,155
Vote—Broadcasting	3,217
Vote—Commission for the Environment	11,103
Vote—Foreign Affairs (Programmes I to V)	21,075
Vote—Government Printing Office	107,774
Vote—Housing Corporation	1,244,006
Vote—Labour	4,259,192
Vote—Lands and Survey (Programmes I to III)	401,581
Vote—Legislative	187,720
Vote—Prime Minister’s Department	78
Vote—Social Welfare	17,208,085
Vote—Stabilisation	8,822,381
		32,268,367
Total Consolidated Revenue Account			36,805,022
Carried forward			36,805,022
Brought forward			36,805,022
WORKS AND TRADING ACCOUNT
For Services and Purposes in Excess of Votes—
Vote—Agriculture and Fisheries (Programme X)	391,364
Vote—Education (Programme VII)	5,782,807
Vote—Electric Supply	12,275,640
Vote—Foreign Affairs (Programme VI)	23,373
Vote—Lands and Survey (Programme IV)	830,905
Vote—Transport (Programme VI)	2,191,029
Vote—Works and Development (Programmes V to VIII)	266,351
		21,761,469
Total, Works and Trading Account			21,761,469
NATIONAL ROADS FUND
Ex gratia payments in lieu of refunds of motor spirits duty, etc.		186
Entertainment expenses		1,313
District Roads Council tours		636
Total, National Roads Fund			2,135
ACCOUNTS OUTSIDE THE PUBLIC ACCOUNT
STATE INSURANCE ACCOUNT
For Services and Purposes in Excess of Votes—
Vote—State Insurance Office			5,262
TOTAL			$58,573,888

SUMMARY

	Unauthorised Authority (Section 51(4) of the Public Revenues Act 1953, as substituted by section 2(2) of the Public Revenues Amendment Act 1976)	Amount Expended
	$	$
Unauthorised Expenditure
For all services and purposes	88,862,655	58,573,888

FIFTH SCHEDULE Amounts Written Off

Section 7

(For details see pages 325 to 330 of the Estimates (B. 7 [Pt. 1]))

Department	Value of Stores, etc.	Cash
	$	$
Audit		737
Commission for the Environment	120
Customs		12,012
Education	2,205	13,226
Government Life Insurance Office	130
Health	28,703	1,246
Housing Corporation		80,206
Inland Revenue		624,154
Internal Affairs	947	355
Justice	88,471	5,420
Labour	317	1,541
Lands and Survey	373,883	19,051
Maori Affairs	145,059	4,748
Mines	1,323	662
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries	20,245	6,458
Ministry of Defence	74,501	33,533
Ministry of Energy Resources		26,906
Ministry of Foreign Affairs		153,629
Ministry of Transport	4,537	35,558
Ministry of Works and Development	120,391	28,500
New Zealand Electricity	63,343	9,296
New Zealand Forest Service	27,447	5,222
Police	105	11,417
Post Office	52,268	490,464
Railways	375,590	12,551
Scientific and Industrial Research	1,562	1,096
Social Welfare	477	371,030
State Insurance		4,647
State Services Commission		2,632
Statistics		42
Tourist and Publicity		1,875
Trade and Industry	555	530
Treasury	1,136	1,368
Valuation	16	760
Totals	1,383,331	1,960,872
TOTAL	$3,344,203

SIXTH SCHEDULE Enactments Repealed

Section 8

1977, No. 2—The Imprest Supply Act 1977.

1977, No. 25—The Imprest Supply Act (No. 2) 1977.

1977, No. 100—The Appropriation Act 1977.

1977, No. 101—The Appropriation Act (No. 2) 1977.

This Act is administered in the Treasury.

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