	Title
1	Short Title
2	Grant and appropriation of $939,191,000 out of Consolidated Revenue Account
3	Grant and appropriation of $308,094,000 out of Works and Trading Account
4	Grant and appropriation of $121,653,000 out of accounts outside the Public Account
5	Indemnity as to unauthorised expenditure of $11,680,052
6	Authority to write off losses of public money and public stores amounting to $4,542,360
7	Authority to transfer $233,000,000 from National Development Loans Account to other accounts
	FIRST SCHEDULE Appropriations Out of Consolidated Revenue Account for the Year 1968–69
	SECOND SCHEDULE Appropriations Out of Works and Trading Account for the Year 1968–69
	THIRD SCHEDULE Appropriations Out of Accounts Outside the Public Account for the Year 1968–69
	FOURTH SCHEDULE Unauthorised Expenditure Statement for the Year 1967–68
	FIFTH SCHEDULE Amounts Written Off (for details see B. 7 [Pt. I])
	SIXTH SCHEDULE Transfers Authorised From National Development Loans Account for the Year 1968–69
	Administrative information

An Act to appropriate and apply certain sums of money out of the Consolidated Revenue Account and other accounts to the services of the year ending with the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and sixty-nine, and to appropriate the supplies 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 1968.

(2)

This Act relates to the year ending with the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and sixty-nine (hereinafter referred to as this year).

2 Grant and appropriation of $939,191,000 out of Consolidated Revenue Account

(1)

The Minister of Finance may issue and apply out of the Consolidated Revenue Account, towards making good the supplies granted to Her Majesty for the services of this year, any sums which, together with the sums that have been issued and paid out of the Consolidated Revenue Account during this year under section 49 of the Public Revenues Act 1953 and the Imprest Supply Acts passed during this year, do not exceed the sum of nine hundred and thirty-nine million one hundred and ninety-one thousand dollars.

(2)

The sums hereinbefore authorised to be applied, together with the fees collected by such public officers as are authorised to retain them instead of salary, are hereby appropriated for the services expressed in the several votes specified in the First Schedule to this Act.

3 Grant and appropriation of $308,094,000 out of Works and Trading Account

(1)

The Minister of Finance may issue and apply out of the Works and Trading Account, towards making good the supplies granted to Her Majesty for the services of this year, any sums which, together with the sums that have been issued and paid out of the Works and Trading Account during this year under section 49 of the Public Revenues Act 1953 and the Imprest Supply Acts passed during this year, do not exceed the sum of three hundred and eight million and ninety-four thousand dollars.

(2)

The sums hereinbefore authorised to be applied are hereby appropriated for the services expressed in the several votes specified in the Second Schedule to this Act.

(3)

Where any of the money appropriated by this section for the construction, maintenance, and supervision of roads, bridges, and other public works is by the estimates for this year as approved by the House of Representatives allocated for the construction, maintenance, or supervision of any particular road or bridge, the money so allocated, or any portion thereof, may be expended for the construction or maintenance of any other road or bridge (within the district of the same local authority) for which no specific provision is made by the said estimates.

4 Grant and appropriation of $121,653,000 out of accounts outside the Public Account

(1)

The Minister of Finance may issue and apply out of the accounts outside the Public Account mentioned in the Third Schedule to this Act, towards making good the supplies granted to Her Majesty for the services of this year, any sums which, together with the sums that have been issued and paid out of those accounts during this year under section 49 of the Public Revenues Act 1953 and the Imprest Supply Acts passed during this year, do not exceed the sum of one hundred and twenty-one million six hundred and fifty-three thousand dollars.

(2)

The sums hereinbefore authorised to be applied are hereby appropriated for the services expressed in the several votes specified in the Third Schedule to this Act.

5 Indemnity as to unauthorised expenditure of $11,680,052

Whereas the Minister of Finance has, under the authority of sections 51 and 76 of the Public Revenues Act 1953, issued during the year that ended with the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and sixty-eight, in excess of or without the appropriation of Parliament, the respective sums mentioned in the Fourth Schedule to this Act, out of the Consolidated Revenue Account and the other accounts mentioned in the said Schedule, amounting in the whole to the sum of eleven million six hundred and eighty thousand and fifty-two dollars, and has caused those sums to be applied to the several services mentioned in the said Fourth Schedule: Be it therefore enacted that the application of the said sums is hereby sanctioned.

6 Authority to write off losses of public money and public stores amounting to $4,542,360

Whereas the losses of public money and public stores specified in the Fifth Schedule to this Act have occurred, amounting in the whole to four million five hundred and forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty dollars: Be it therefore enacted as follows:

(1)

The amounts specified in the said Fifth Schedule, being sums of public money and the value of public stores, are hereby written off.

(2)

No person, other than an accounting officer within the meaning of the Public Revenues Act 1953, shall be deemed to be discharged, by reason only of the fact that the said amounts are written off, from any liability in respect of any public money or public stores (other than debts remitted) to which this section applies.

7 Authority to transfer $233,000,000 from National Development Loans Account to other accounts

There may be transferred from the National Development Loans Account to the respective accounts mentioned in the Sixth Schedule to this Act any sums which, together with the sums that have been so transferred during this year under section 12 of the New Zealand Loans Act 1953 and the Imprest Supply Acts passed during this year, do not exceed in respect of any such account the appropriate amount specified in that Schedule and do not exceed in the aggregate the sum of two hundred and thirty-three million dollars.

SCHEDULES

FIRST SCHEDULE Appropriations Out of Consolidated Revenue Account for the Year 1968–69

Section 2(2)

Page No. B.7 [Pt. I]	Vote	SERVICE	Appropriation
			$(000)
138	1	Legislative	967
15	2	Agriculture	19,906
22	3	Audit	725
24	4	Broadcasting	29
25	5	Civil Aviation and Meteorological Services	10,373
34	6	Crown Law	163
36	7	Customs	2,448
39	8	Defence	96,100
47	9	Education	170,535
67	10	External Affairs	11,718
192	11	Family Benefit Capitalisation	6,750
78	12	Forest Service	7,206
84	13	Government Printing Office	6,547
86	14	Health	13,467
94	15	Health Benefits	42,332
97	16	Hospitals	127,612
106	17	Industries and Commerce	3,460
112	18	Inland Revenue	6,143
114	19	Internal Affairs	6,534
123	20	Justice	10,020
129	21	Labour	5,769
134	22	Lands and Survey	5,692
142	23	Maori and Island Affairs	7,687
149	24	Marine	3,073
153	25	Mines	2,601
156	26	Police	12,805
168	27	Prime Minister’s Office	53
172	28	Public Works and Services	37,903
181	29	Roads, etc.	3,950
182	30	Scientific and Industrial Research	8,545
188	31	Social Security Expenses and Emergency Benefits	10,296
191	32	Social Security Monetary Benefits	236,400
193	33	Stabilisation	15,804
194	34	State Advances Corporation	35
202	35	State Services Commission	740
204	36	Statistics	1,274
206	37	Tourist and Publicity	5,503
212	38	Transport	4,104
215	39	Treasury	2,092
220	40	Valuation	1,670
222	41	War and other Pensions	30,160
		TOTAL	939,191

SECOND SCHEDULE Appropriations Out of Works and Trading Account for the Year 1968–69

Section 3(2)

Page No. B. 7 [Pt. I]	Vote	SERVICE	Appropriation
			$(000)
21	42	Airport Development	1,115
32	43	Crown Lands	21,500
63	44	Electric Supply	93,133
76	45	Forest Development	18,500
104	46	Housing Construction	17,500
146	47	Maori Land Settlement	10,600
169	48	Public Buildings	14,950
180	49	Railway Construction	1,000
195	50	State Coal Mines	15,756
219	51	University and Technical Institute Buildings	13,700
224	52	Working Railways	100,340
		TOTAL	308,094

THIRD SCHEDULE Appropriations Out of Accounts Outside the Public Account for the Year 1968–69

Section 4

Page No. B. 7 [Pt. I]	Vote	ACCOUNT AND SERVICE	Appropriation
		EARTHQUAKE AND WAR DAMAGE FUND	$(000)
46	53	Earthquake and War Damage	248
		GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE ACCOUNT
82	54	Government Life Insurance	1,266
		MAORI TRUSTEE’S ACCOUNT
148	55	Maori Trust Office	498
		POST OFFICE ACCOUNT
160	56	Post Office Working Expenses	95,716
166	57	Telecommunications Development	18,797
		Total	114,513
		PUBLIC TRUSTEE’S ACCOUNT
170	58	Public Trust Office	2,751
		STATE INSURANCE ACCOUNT
200	59	State Insurance Office	2,377
		TOTAL	121,653

FOURTH SCHEDULE Unauthorised Expenditure Statement for the Year 1967–68

Section 5

	$	$	$
For Services Not Provided For
Department of Internal Affairs—
Advance to Hutt Valley and Bays Fire Board recoverable in 1968–69 financial year		4,278
Department of Labour—
Payment of fee to Public Trustee for services involved in distributing the proceeds of unions’ assets	800
Payment of fees, allowances, and expenses of members of Waterfront Conference	209
		1,009
Ministry of Works—
Additional contribution to National Roads Fund		250,000
		255,287
For Services in Excess of Votes
Vote—Audit	4,588
Vote—Broadcasting	3,520
Vote—Customs	76,636
Vote—Education	1,175,681
Vote—Family Benefit Capitalisation	236,948
Vote—Health Benefits	114,566
Vote—Inland Revenue	1,524
Vote—Internal Affairs	59,051
Vote—Island Territories	42,284
Vote—Lands and Survey	10,532
Vote—Legislative	56,589
Vote—Maori Affairs	2,756
Vote—Marine	60,521
Vote—Mines	919,584
Vote—Police	224,428
Vote—Social Security Expenses and Emergency Benefits	768,942
Vote—Social Security Monetary Benefits	3,837,724
Vote—State Advances Corporation	230
Vote—Statistics	64,836
Vote—Transport	75,864
Vote—Valuation	98,948
Vote—War and Other Pensions	261,853
		8,097,605
			8,352,892
WORKS AND TRADING ACCOUNT
For Services in Excess of Votes
Vote—Housing Construction		680,107
Vote—Public Buildings		231,716
Vote—State Coal Mines		269,209
Vote—University and Technical Institute Buildings		2,088,063	3,269,095
NATIONAL ROADS FUND
Ex gratia payments in lieu of refunds of petrol tax, etc.		2,688
Bridge, highway, and motorway openings		200
Entertainment expenses		796
Contribution to New Zealand Road Federation		1,000
Overseas travel		1,219
			5,903
ACCOUNTS OUTSIDE THE PUBLIC ACCOUNT
EARTHQUAKE AND WAR DAMAGE FUND
For Services in Excess of Votes
Vote—Earthquake and War Damage			13,346
GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE ACCOUNT
For Services in Excess of Votes
Vote—Government Life Insurance			30,814
PUBLIC TRUSTEE’S ACCOUNT
For Services in Excess of Votes
Vote—Public Trust Office			8,002
			$11,680,052

SUMMARY

	Unauthorised Authority (Section 51(4) of the Public Revenues Act 1953)	Amount Expended
Unauthorised Expenditure
For all services	$ 20,111,983	$ 11,680,052

FIFTH SCHEDULE Amounts Written Off (for details see B. 7 [Pt. I])

Section 6

Department	Value of Stores, etc.	Cash
	$	$
Agriculture	9,950	923
Audit		9
Civil Aviation	4,078	175,641
Customs		2,075
Education	5,022	124,399
External Affairs		1,857
Government Printing Office	8,118	60
Health	12,021	1,198
Industries and Commerce	96,245	1,020
Inland Revenue	8	132,611
Internal Affairs	485	1,827
Island Territories	6	226
Justice	157,937	1,226
Labour	1,684	1,681
Lands and Survey	337,336	1,956
Maori Affairs	95,246	13,968
Maori Trustee		256
Marine	211	3,817
Mines	2,798	3,306
Ministry of Defence	2,946,866	1,588
Ministry of Works	33,102	7,726
New Zealand Electricity	22,435	1,538
New Zealand Forest Service	9,182	26,371
Police	410	66
Post Office	15,830	78,253
Railways	92,913	20,066
Scientific and Industrial Research	35,438	41
Social Security		11,386
State Advances Corporation		16,469
State Insurance Office		60
Tourist and Publicity	9,055	2,247
Transport	33	6,963
Treasury		4,407
Valuation	580	134
Totals	3,896,989	645,371
Total	$4,542,360

SIXTH SCHEDULE Transfers Authorised From National Development Loans Account for the Year 1968–69

Section 7

Account	Amount
	$(000)
The Post Office Account	13,000
The State Advances Corporation of New Zealand Account	45,000
The Works and Trading Account	175,000
TOTAL	233,000

This Act is administered in the Treasury.

Appropriation Act 1968