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BILL NO.

23 OF 2015 A BILL FOR AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE A SUM OF THREE BILLION, NINETY MILLION, EIGHT HUNDRED FORTY THOUSAND, AND THREE HUNDRED TWENTY DOLLARS FOR THE ORDINARY SERVICES OF GOVERNMENT FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31 DECEMBER 2016 ENACTED by the Parliament of the Republic of Fiji— 1.—(1) This Act may be cited as the 2016 Appropriation Act 2015.

Short title and commencement (2) This Act comes into force on 1 January 2016.

Appropriation of $3,090,840,320 2.


A sum of $3,090,840,320 is to be issued from the Consolidated Fund or other funds of the State, and applied to the ordinary services of the Government for the year ending 31 December 2016, and such sum is to be appropriated for the purposes specified in Schedules 1 and 2 and also the 2016 Budget Estimates.

2 Government Borrowing 3.—(1) The Government borrowing for 2016 shall not exceed the sum of $445,436,658.
(2) Notwithstanding any other written law and for the purpose of subsection (1), the Minister for Finance may, subject to the approval of Parliament, borrow on behalf of the State by raising loans not exceeding $445,436,658 in 2016.

SCHEDULE 1 (Section 2) ________ Head No.
FROM THE OPERATING FUND ACCOUNT Ministry/Department 1 Office of the President 2 Office of the Prime Minister 3 Office of the Attorney-General and Department of Civil Aviation 4 Ministry of Finance 5 Ministry of iTaukei Affairs Amount $ 3,428,146 15,499,425 18,278,346 84,142,103 11,464,434 6 Ministry of Immigration, National Security and Defence 9,241,159 7 Ministry of Employment, Productivity and Industrial Relations 17,284,164 8 Ministry of Foreign Affairs 9 Office of the Auditor-General 10 11 12 13 Fijian Elections Office Judiciary Parliament Independent Commissions 14 Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions 15 Ministry of Justice 16 Ministry of Communications 17 Public Service Commission 18 Ministry of Rural and Maritime Development and National Disaster Management 42,968,946 4,226,130 6,388,552 44,016,519 9,850,878 15,882,939 6,057,643 44,298,947 26,413,225 5,810,153 36,905,499 2016 Appropriation— of 2015 19 Republic of Fiji Military Forces 20 Fiji Police Force 21 Ministry of Education, Heritage and Arts 22 Ministry of Health and Medical Services 23 Department of Housing 3 93,557,721 126,305,319 432,249,149 280,083,679 30,848,070 24 Ministry of Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation 52,151,886 25 Ministry of Youth and Sports 26 Higher Education Institutions 30 Ministry of Agriculture 32 Ministry of Fisheries and Forests 33 Ministry of Lands and Mineral Resources 34 Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism 35 Ministry of Sugar 36 Ministry of Public Enterprises 37 Ministry of Local Government, Urban
 Development and Environment 40 Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport 41 Water Authority of Fiji 43 49 Fiji Roads Authority Peacekeeping Missions 50 Miscellaneous Services TOTAL 22,461,749 76,584,776 76,188,775 26,256,261 31,032,522 58,946,389 23,788,344 16,084,105 35,041,514 122,232,462 250,444,383 635,675,337 78,972,275 181,635,946 3,052,697,870 2016 Appropriation— of 2015 4 SCHEDULE 2 (Section 2) ________ FROM THE LENDING FUND ACCOUNT Amount Re-current Loans Loans to Students attending Tertiary Education Institutions in Fiji Loans to Private Students Loans to Ministers and Members of Parliament Housing Authority Public Rental Board Fiji Pine Limited Total Recurrent Loans Non-Recurrent Loans $ 0.0 (50,000) (37,000) (2,913,460) (757,090) (600,000) (4,357,550) 1 Tertiary Education Loan Scheme 42,500,000 Total Non - Recurrent Loans TOTAL 42,500,000 38,142,450 2016 Appropriation— of 2015 5 Office of the Attorney-General Suvavou House Suva November 2015 2016 APPROPRIATION BILL 2015 ________ EXPLANATORY NOTE (This note is not part of the Bill and is only intended to indicate its general effect) 1.0 1.1 2.0 2.1 2.2 3.0 3.1 BACKGROUND This Bill makes provision for the estimates of capital and current expenditure for the ordinary services of the Government for the year 2016.
CLAUSES Clause 1 provides for the short title and the commencement provision.

Clause 2 appropriates the sum of $3,090,840,320 for the ordinary services of the Government for the year ending 31 December 2016 for the purposes specified in Schedules 1 and 2 and the 2016 Budget Estimates.

Clause 3 provides that the Government borrowing for 2016 shall not exceed the sum of $445,436,658.

MINISTERIAL RESPONSIBILITY The Act comes under the responsibility of the Minister for Finance.
A. SAYED-KHAIYUM Attorney-General Price: 70c S. NAVUNILAWA, Government Printer, Suva, Fiji – 2015 23/A/15—900 Official Printer Since 1883