	Title
1	Short Title
2	Grant and appropriation of $6,120,707,000 out of Consolidated Account
3	Grant and appropriation of $654,310,000 out of Loans Account
4	Grant and appropriation of $1,213,635,000 out of accounts outside the Public Account
5	Transfers from Loans Account to Consolidated Account not to exceed $600,000,000
6	Unauthorised expenditure of $62,030,000 sanctioned
7	Writing off of losses of public money and public stores amounting to $8,409,745
8	Repeals
	FIRST SCHEDULE Appropriations Out of Consolidated Account for the Year 1979–80
	SECOND SCHEDULE Appropriations Out of Loans Account for the Year 1979–80
	THIRD SCHEDULE Appropriations Out of Accounts Outside the Public Account for the Year 1979–80
	FOURTH SCHEDULE Unauthorised Expenditure Statement for the Year 1978–79
	SUMMARY
	FIFTH SCHEDULE Amounts Written Off (For details see pages 337 to 342 of the Estimates (B. 7 [Pt. I]))
	SIXTH SCHEDULE Enactments Repealed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 1980, 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 1979.

(2)

This Act relates to the year ending with the 31st day of March 1980 (hereinafter referred to as this year).

2 Grant and appropriation of $6,120,707,000 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 $6,120,707,000.

(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 $654,310,000 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 $654,310,000.

(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 $1,213,635,000 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 $1,213,635,000.

(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 $600,000,000

The maximum amount that may be transferred from the Loans Account to the Consolidated Account in respect of this year shall be $600,000,000.

6 Unauthorised expenditure of $62,030,000 sanctioned

Whereas the Minister of Finance has, under the authority of section 55 of the Public Finance Act 1977, approved the expenditure during the year that ended with the 31st day of March 1979, 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 accounts outside the Public Account specified in that Schedule, amounting in the whole to the sum of $62,030,000: 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 $8,409,745

Whereas the losses of public money and public stores specified in the Fifth Schedule to this Act have occurred, amounting in the whole to $8,409,745: 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 1979–80

Section 2(2)

Estimates (B. 7 [Pt. I]) Page No.	Vote No.	VOTE	Appropriation
			$(000)
16	1	Accident Compensation	39
17	2	Agriculture and Fisheries	241,560
31	3	Audit	3,310
34	4	Broadcasting	123
35	5	Building Performance Guarantee Corporation	20
37	6	Commission for the Environment	580
40	7	Crown Law	785
43	8	Customs	14,380
49	9	Defence	312,430
67	10	Education	938,650
81	11	Energy (part vote)	44,125
93	12	Foreign Affairs	108,590
108	13	Forest Service	144,140
118	14	Government Printing Office	29,090
123	15	Health	1,041,190
144	16	Housing Corporation (Programmes I and II)	69,715
147	17	Inland Revenue	33,095
153	18	Internal Affairs	52,540
166	19	Justice	77,040
176	20	Labour	147,015
185	21	Lands and Survey	88,085
195	22	Legislative	8,310
199	23	Maori Affairs	59,690
208	24	Police	95,810
220	25	Prime Minister’s Department	1,010
238	26	Rural Banking and Finance Corporation (Programmes I and II)	10,100
240	27	Scientific and Industrial Research	51,090
247	28	Security Intelligence Service	1,860
248	29	Social Welfare	2,072,520
258	30	Stabilisation	109,690
262	31	State Services Commission	51,755
267	32	Statistics	9,755
272	33	Tourist and Publicity	13,225
280	34	Trade and Industry	31,015
291	35	Transport	109,515
303	36	Treasury	7,615
308	37	Valuation	7,890
311	38	Works and Development	133,355
		TOTAL	6,120,707

SECOND SCHEDULE Appropriations Out of Loans Account for the Year 1979–80

Section 3(2)

Estimates (B. 7 [Pt. I]) Page No.	Vote No.	VOTE	Appropriation
			$(000)
36	39	Capital Participation in Crown and other organisations	37,975
81	11	Energy (part vote)	160,349
144	16	Housing Corporation (Programmes III to V)	221,500
213	40	Post Office (part vote)	2,000
227	41	Railways (part vote)	24,486
238	26	Rural Banking and Finance Corporation (Programme III)
			208,000
		TOTAL	654,310

THIRD SCHEDULE Appropriations Out of Accounts Outside the Public Account for the Year 1979–80

Section 4

Estimates (B. 7 [Pt. I]) Page No.	Vote No.	VOTE	Appropriation
		EARTHQUAKE AND WAR DAMAGE FUND	$(000)
65	42	Earthquake and War Damage	115
		ENERGY ACCOUNT
81	11	Energy (part vote)	277,236
		GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE ACCOUNT
115	43	Government Life Insurance	6,190
		POST OFFICE ACCOUNT
213	40	Post Office (part vote)	530,670
		PUBLIC TRUSTEE’S ACCOUNT
224	44	Public Trust Office	9,215
		RAILWAYS ACCOUNT
227	41	Railways (part vote)	379,114
		STATE INSURANCE ACCOUNT
259	45	State Insurance Office	11,095
		TOTAL	1,213,635

FOURTH SCHEDULE Unauthorised Expenditure Statement for the Year 1978–79

Section 6

CONSOLIDATED ACCOUNT	$(000)	$(000)	$(000)
For Services and Purposes Not Provided For—
Vote Health—
Grant to a private hospital to meet cash deficit		157
Vote Internal Affairs—
Interest subsidy for the National Provident Fund on a loan for storm damage restoration in Greymouth	25
Southland—Otago flood damage:
Subsidy on donations to the special relief fund	1,585	1,610
Vote Lands and Survey—
Ex gratia payment for expenses and inconvenience resulting from non purchase of land		20
Vote Trade and Industry—
Subsidy assistance for the manufacture of gas cookers		35
		1,822
For Services and Purposes in Excess of Appropriation—
Vote—Accident Compensation	9
Vote—Agriculture and Fisheries	4,458
Vote—Broadcasting	1
Vote—Commission for the Environment	26
Vote—Crown Law	48
Vote—Education	851
Vote—Foreign Affairs	1,279
Vote—Government Printing Office	173
Vote—Police	1,224
Vote—Scientific and Industrial Research	444
Vote—Social Welfare	4,680
Vote—Stabilisation	15,830
Vote—Statistics	593
Vote—Treasury	125
Vote—Works and Development	3,440	33,181
Total, Consolidated Account			35,003
LOANS ACCOUNT
For Services and Purposes in Excess of Appropriation—
Vote—Railways			8,350
ACCOUNTS OUTSIDE THE PUBLIC ACCOUNT
POST OFFICE ACCOUNT
For Services and Purposes in Excess of Appropriation—
Vote—Post Office		18,593
RAILWAYS ACCOUNT
For Services and Purposes Not Provided For—
Vote Railways—
Purchase of additional shares in Chep Handling Systems Limited		84
			18,677
			62,030

SUMMARY

	Unauthorised Authority (Section 55(3) of the Public Finance Act 1977)	Amount Expended
Unauthorised Expenditure	$(000)	$(000)
For all services and purposes	113,645	62,030

FIFTH SCHEDULE Amounts Written Off (For details see pages 337 to 342 of the Estimates (B. 7 [Pt. I]))

Section 7

Department	Value of Stores, etc.	Cash
	$	$
Customs		25,503
Education	4,096	42,605
Health	2,695	367
Housing Corporation		160,165
Inland Revenue		1,494,892
Internal Affairs	223	630
Justice	24,600	5,530
Labour	47	2,440
Lands and Survey	667,426	6,879
Maori Affairs	137,469	11,843
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries	17,901	11,186
Ministry of Defence	145,802	32,953
Ministry of Energy	201,867	2,598,681
Ministry of Foreign Affairs		6,583
Ministry of Transport	3,546	32,137
Ministry of Works and Development	125,790	39,739
New Zealand Forest Service	53,819	9,701
Police	17,137	508
Post Office	60,218	1,224,890
Railways	163,298	38,727
Scientific and Industrial Research	846	1,256
Social Welfare	2,499	999,866
State Insurance		131
State Services Commission	11,643	126
Statistics		86
Tourist and Publicity	218	1,123
Trade and Industry	582	6,439
Treasury	2,277	10,019
Valuation	105	636
Totals	1,644,104	6,765,641
TOTAL	$8,409,745

SIXTH SCHEDULE Enactments Repealed

Section 8

1978, No. 4—The Imprest Supply Act 1978.

1978, No. 26—The Imprest Supply Act (No. 2) 1978.

1978, No. 84—The Appropriation Act 1978.

1978, No. 85—The Appropriation Act (No. 2) 1978.

This Act is administered in the Treasury.

Appropriation Act 1979