Appropriation (2014/15 Confirmation and Validation) Act 2016: repealed, on 18 August 2016, by section 10 of the Appropriation (2016/17 Estimates) Act 2016 (2016 No 37).

Note

Changes authorised by subpart 2 of Part 2 of the Legislation Act 2012 have been made in this official reprint.

Note 4 at the end of this reprint provides a list of the amendments incorporated.

This Act is administered by the Treasury.

1	Title
2	Commencement
3	Purpose
4	Interpretation
5	Confirmation of Order in Council directing transfer of amounts between output expense appropriations
6	Confirmation of expenses incurred in excess of existing appropriations and approved by Minister of Finance
7	Validation of unappropriated expenses and capital expenditure incurred
	Schedule 1 Confirmation of expenses incurred in excess of existing appropriations during 2014/15 financial year with approval of Minister of Finance
	Schedule 2 Validation of expenses incurred in excess, but within scope, of existing appropriations and without authority of Imprest Supply Act during 2014/15 financial year
	Schedule 3 Validation of expenses and capital expenditure incurred not within scope of existing appropriations and without authority of Imprest Supply Act during 2014/15 financial year
	Schedule 4 Validation of expenses and capital expenditure incurred in advance of appropriation and without authority of Imprest Supply Act during 2014/15 financial year
	Reprint notes

The Parliament of New Zealand enacts as follows:

1 Title

This Act is the Appropriation (2014/15 Confirmation and Validation) Act 2016.

2 Commencement

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

3 Purpose

The purpose of this Act is to confirm and validate matters relating to the 2014/15 financial year.

4 Interpretation

(1)

In this Act, 2014/15 financial year means the financial year ending with 30 June 2015.

(2)

Terms or expressions used and not defined in this Act but defined in the Public Finance Act 1989 have, in this Act, the same meanings as in the Public Finance Act 1989.

5 Confirmation of Order in Council directing transfer of amounts between output expense appropriations

The Public Finance (Transfers Between Outputs) Order 2015 is confirmed.

6 Confirmation of expenses incurred in excess of existing appropriations and approved by Minister of Finance

(1)

The incurring of expenses approved by the Minister of Finance under section 26B of the Public Finance Act 1989 for the 2014/15 financial year and described in subsections (2) and (3) is confirmed.

(2)

The expenses are the expenses incurred in excess, but within the scope, of the existing appropriations set out in column 3 of Schedule 1.

(3)

The amounts of the approved expenses are shown in column 4 of Schedule 1 alongside the existing appropriation for which the approval was given.

7 Validation of unappropriated expenses and capital expenditure incurred

(1)

The incurring of expenses or capital expenditure by a department in the circumstances set out in subsection (2) is validated for the purposes of section 26C of the Public Finance Act 1989.

(2)

The circumstances are that,—

(a)

for the 2014/15 financial year, the department incurred—

(i)

expenses in excess, but within the scope, of the existing appropriations set out in column 3 of Schedule 2 alongside that department; or

(ii)

expenses or capital expenditure, not within the scope of any existing appropriation, against the categories of expenses or capital expenditure set out in column 3 of Schedule 3 alongside that department; or

(iii)

expenses or capital expenditure in advance of the appropriations set out in column 3 of Schedule 4 alongside that department; and

(b)

the expenses or capital expenditure referred to in paragraph (a) were not incurred under the authority of an Imprest Supply Act.

(3)

In this section,—

capital expenditure means the amount of capital expenditure set out in column 4 of, as appropriate, Schedule 3 or 4 alongside the relevant department

department means a department specified in column 1 of, as appropriate, Schedule 2, 3, or 4

expenses means the amount of expenses set out in column 4 of, as appropriate, Schedule 2, 3, or 4 alongside the relevant department.

Schedule 1 Confirmation of expenses incurred in excess of existing appropriations during 2014/15 financial year with approval of Minister of Finance

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Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
Administering department	Vote	Appropriation	Amount $(000)

Education, Ministry of	Education	Non-Departmental Other Expenses
Education, Ministry of		Early Childhood Education	16,029

Police, New Zealand	Police	Departmental Output Expenses
		General Crime Prevention Services	647
		Investigations	2,044
		Police Primary Response Management	2,272

Transport, Ministry of	Transport	Non-Departmental Other Expenses
		SuperGold Card - public transport concessions for cardholders	16

Schedule 2 Validation of expenses incurred in excess, but within scope, of existing appropriations and without authority of Imprest Supply Act during 2014/15 financial year

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Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
Administering department	Vote	Appropriation	Amount $(000)

Business, Innovation, and Employment, Ministry of	Commerce and Consumer Affairs	Non-Departmental Output Expenses
		Enforcement of Dairy Sector Regulation and Auditing of Milk Price Setting	82

Culture and Heritage, Ministry for	Arts, Culture and Heritage	Non-Departmental Output Expenses
		Protection of Taonga Tūturu	50

Justice, Ministry of	Justice	Non-Departmental Output Expenses
		Legal Aid	4,805

Parliamentary Service	Parliamentary Service	Non-Departmental Other Expenses
		Travel of former MPs	118

Prime Minister and Cabinet, Department of the	Canterbury Earthquake Recovery	Non-Departmental Other Expenses
Prime Minister and Cabinet, Department of the	Canterbury Earthquake Recovery	Impairment of Improvements	24,390

Schedule 3 Validation of expenses and capital expenditure incurred not within scope of existing appropriations and without authority of Imprest Supply Act during 2014/15 financial year

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Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
Administering department	Vote	Category of expenses or capital expenditure	Amount $(000)

Business, Innovation, and Employment, Ministry of	Commerce and Consumer Affairs	Non-Departmental Other Expenses
		Impairment of Debts Owed to the Crown	18

	Housing	Departmental Output Expenses
		Policy Advice and Related Outputs	52

	Labour	Non-Departmental Other Expenses
		Impairment of Debts Owed to the Crown	18

	Tourism	Non-Departmental Other Expenses
		Impairment of Debts Owed to the Crown	41

Crown Law Office	Attorney-General	Departmental Output Expenses
		Conduct of Criminal Appeals from Crown Prosecutions	61

Prime Minister and Cabinet, Department of the	Canterbury Earthquake Recovery	Non-Departmental Other Expenses
	Canterbury Earthquake Recovery	Crown Asset Depreciation	453
		Cost of Vesting Land to the Christchurch City Council	4,119

Transport, Ministry of	Transport	Non-Departmental Capital Expenditure
		Rail - KiwiRail Holdings Limited Loans	10,750

Schedule 4 Validation of expenses and capital expenditure incurred in advance of appropriation and without authority of Imprest Supply Act during 2014/15 financial year

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Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
Administering department	Vote	Appropriation	Amount $(000)

Prime Minister and Cabinet, Department of the	Canterbury Earthquake Recovery	Non-Departmental Capital Expenditure
	Canterbury Earthquake Recovery	Christchurch Bus Interchange	3,505

		Multi-Category
		Procurement and Preparation of Land and Other Assets for the Development of Anchor Projects
		Non-Departmental Other Expenses
		Procurement of Land and Assets - Operating	4,582

Social Development, Ministry of	Social Development	Non-Departmental Output Expenses
		Short-term Housing in Canterbury	131

Transport, Ministry of	Transport	Non-Departmental Capital Expenditure
		Rail - KiwiRail Equity Injection	1,535

Reprints notes

1 General

This is a reprint of the Appropriation (2014/15 Confirmation and Validation) Act 2016 that incorporates all the amendments to that Act as at the date of the last amendment to it.

2 Legal status

Reprints are presumed to correctly state, as at the date of the reprint, the law enacted by the principal enactment and by any amendments to that enactment. Section 18 of the Legislation Act 2012 provides that this reprint, published in electronic form, has the status of an official version under section 17 of that Act. A printed version of the reprint produced directly from this official electronic version also has official status.

3 Editorial and format changes

Editorial and format changes to reprints are made using the powers under sections 24 to 26 of the Legislation Act 2012. See also http://www.pco.parliament.govt.nz/editorial-conventions/.

4 Amendments incorporated in this reprint

Appropriation (2016/17 Estimates) Act 2016 (2016 No 37): section 10

Appropriation (2014/15 Confirmation and Validation) Act 2016