This Act is the Appropriation (2004/05 Supplementary Estimates) Act 2005.

This Act comes into force on the day after the date on which it receives the Royal assent.

This Act (except section 11) relates to the financial year ending with 30 June 2005.

The purpose of this Act is to—

• (a) authorise the Crown to spend public money and to incur expenses and liabilities during the financial year ending with 30 June 2005 by appropriating public money, expenses, and liabilities for that financial year; and

• (b) authorise the Crown to spend public money and to incur expenses during the period of 5 financial years ending with 30 June 2009 by appropriating public money and expenses for those financial years in relation to—

• (i) the purchase of demand side management and reserve energy production by the Electricity Commission:

• (ii) the purchase of diesel fuel and other related items for the purpose of generating reserve electricity by the Whirinaki electricity generation plant:

• (iii) settlement of Treaty of Waitangi claims, including payment of redress and claimant funding; and

• (c) authorise the Crown to spend public money and to incur expenses during the period of 3 financial years ending with 30 June 2007 by appropriating public money and expenses for those financial years in relation to the acquisition of seismic data in New Zealand's offshore petroleum basins; and

• (d) authorise the Crown to spend public money and to incur expenses during the period of 4 financial years ending with 30 June 2008 by appropriating public money and expenses for those financial years in relation to providing grants to the New Zealand Railways Corporation for upgrading the national rail network in accordance with a commitment made when the Crown purchased the network in June 2004.

(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—

(2) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, benefit, borrowing expenses, capital contribution, class of outputs, Crown, department, expenses, financial year, liability, Mode B, Office of Parliament, other expenses, outputs, public money, and Vote have the meanings given to them by section 2(1) of the Public Finance Act 1989.

(1) Expenses may be incurred in relation to—

• (a) the classes of outputs specified in column 3 of Schedule 3 during the periods specified in column 4 of that schedule against each class of outputs:

• (b) the categories of other expenses specified in column 3 of Schedule 3 during the periods specified in column 4 of that schedule against each category of other expenses.

(2) The expenses to which subsection (1) relates include the expenses that have been incurred under any Imprest Supply Act passed in relation to this year.

(3) Public money, including that spent under any Imprest Supply Act passed in relation to this year, may be spent for the purpose of meeting the expenses incurred under subsection (1).

(4) The expenses to which subsection (1) relates are separately appropriated—

• (a) for the classes of outputs against which the amount of each expense is shown in column 5 of Schedule 3 during the period specified in column 4 of that schedule against each class of outputs:

• (b) for the categories of other expenses against which the amount of each expense is shown in column 5 of Schedule 3 during the period specified in column 4 of that schedule against each category of other expenses.

(5) [Repealed]