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 1984, and to appropriate the supply granted in this year, and to vary the appropriations made by the Appropriation Act 1988

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 (subject to certain variations in the sums granted by the Appropriation Act. 1983) 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 (No. 2) 1983.

(2)

This Act relates to the year ending with the 31st day of March 1984 (in this Act referred to as this year).

2 Grants and appropriations

The grants and appropriations authorised by sections 3, 4, and 5 of this Act to be issued and applied are additional to those authorised for this year by the Appropriation Act 1983.

3 Grant and appropriation of $126,099,000 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 do not exceed the sum of $126,099,000.

(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 to the extent set out in Column 1 of that Schedule.

4 Grant and appropriation of $6,394,000 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 do not exceed the sum of $6,394,000.

(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 to the extent set out in Column 1 of that Schedule.

5 Grant and appropriation of $3,840,000 out of Post Office Account

(1)

The Minister of Finance may issue and apply out of the Post Office Account, towards making good the supply granted to Her Majesty for the service of this year, any sums which do not exceed $3,840,000.

(2)

The sums to which subsection (1) of this section relates are hereby appropriated for the services and purposes expressed in the vote Post Office (as set out in the Third Schedule to this Act) to the extent set out in Column 1 of that Schedule.

6 Reduction of $22,430,000 in previous appropriations out of accounts outside the Public Account

(1)

The maximum sum that the Minister of Finance is authorised by section 4 of the Appropriation Act 1983 to issue and apply out of the accounts outside the Public Account specified in the Third Schedule to that Act, towards making good the supply granted to Her Majesty for the service of this year, is hereby reduced by $22,430,000.

(2)

The sums appropriated by section 4 of the Appropriation Act 1983 for the services and purposes expressed in the several votes specified in the Third Schedule to that Act are hereby reduced by $22,430,000 as set out in Column 3 of the Third Schedule to this Act.

7 Transfers from Loans Account to Consolidated Account not to exceed $2,760,000,000

(1)

The maximum amount that may be transferred from the Loans Account to the Consolidated Account in respect of this year shall be $2,760,000,000.

(2)

The maximum amount specified in subsection (1) of this section is in substitution for the maximum amount specified in section 5 of the Appropriation Act 1983.

SCHEDULES

FIRST SCHEDULE Appropriations Out of Consolidated Account for the Year 1983–84

Section 3(2)

Vote No.	VOTE	Appropriation (Column 1)	Previous Appropriation (Column 2)	Total (Column 3)
		$(000)	$(000)	$(000)
1	Accident Compensation		105	105
2	Agriculture and Fisheries	Cr5,840	642,715	636,875
3	Audit		6,465	6,465
4	Broadcasting		205	205
5	Building Performance Guarantee Corporation		20	20
6	Commission for the Environment	25	1,135	1,160
7	Crown Law		2,510	2,510
8	Customs		33,690	33,690
9	Defence	5,965	709,355	715,320
10	Education	8,650	1,685,085	1,693,735
11	Energy (part vote)	13,247	298,839	312,086
12	Foreign Affairs	490	177,180	177,670
13	Forest Service	Cr6,360	306,525	300,165
14	Government Life Insurance Corporation	17		17
15	Government Printing Office		10,165	10,165
16	Health	Cr2,875	1,837,285	1,834,410
17	Housing Corporation (Programmes I and II)	8,880	79,865	88,745
18	Inland Revenue	Cr1,245	73,490	72,245
19	Internal Affairs	Cr11,305	83,385	72,080
20	Justice	1,565	138,135	139,700
21	Labour	23,680	352,840	376,520
22	Lands and Survey	Cr500	154,330	153,830
23	Legislative		11,265	11,265
24	Maori Affairs	Cr835	68,295	67,460
25	Police	Cr335	191,575	191,240
26	Post Office (part vote)		6,087	6,087
27	Prime Minister’s Department	210	1,880	2,090
28	Railways		105	105
29	Rural Banking and Finance Corporation (Programmes I and II)	4,880	10,080	14,960
30	Scientific and Industrial Research	Cr500	100,915	100,415
31	Security Intelligence Service		4,380	4,380
32	Social Welfare	113,465	3,901,130	4,014,595
33	Stabilisation	Cr21,000	30,600	9,600
34	State Services Commission	Cr810	70,640	69,830
35	Statistics	Cr185	18,350	18,165
36	Tourist and Publicity	1,110	27,555	28,665
37	Trade and Industry	5,835	74,855	80,690
38	Transport	Cr5,880	286,695	280,815
39	Treasury		13,680	13,680
40	Valuation		14,525	14,525
41	Works and Development	Cr4,250	315,495	311,245
	TOTAL	126,099	11,741,431	11,867,530

SECOND SCHEDULE Appropriations Out of Loans Account for the Year 1983–84

Section 4(2)

Vote No.	VOTE	Appropriation (Column 1)	Previous Appropriation (Column 2)	Total (Column 3)
		$(000)	$(000)	$(000)
42	Capital Participation in Crown and other organisations	Cr3,120	193,000	189,880
11	Energy (part vote)	Cr1,386	303,251	301,865
17	Housing Corporation (Programmes III to V)	10,900	159,000	169,900
29	Rural Banking and Finance Corporation (Programme III)		251,000	251,000
	TOTAL	6,394	906,251	912,645

THIRD SCHEDULE Appropriations Out of Accounts Outside the Public Account for the Year 1983–84

Sections 5(2), 6(2)

Vote No.	VOTE	Appropriation (Column 1)	Previous Appropriation (Column 2)	Reduction in Previous Appropriation (Column 3)	Total (Column 4)
	EARTHQUAKE AND WAR DAMAGE FUND	$(000)	$(000)	$(000)	$(000)
43	Earthquake and War Damage		295		295
	ENERGY ACCOUNT
11	Energy (part vote)		532,960	15,871	517,089
	GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE ACCOUNT
44	Government Life Insurance		13,240	6,559	6,681
	POST OFFICE ACCOUNT
26	Post Office (part vote)	3,840	1,015,048		1,018,888
	PUBLIC TRUSTEE’S ACCOUNT
45	Public Trust Office		15,010		15,010
	STATE INSURANCE ACCOUNT
46	State Insurance Office		20,745		20,745
	TOTAL	3,840	1,597,298	22,430	1,578,708

This Act is administered in the Treasury.

Appropriation Act (No 2) 1983