Appropriation Supplementary Bill 2019, HB 12, 2019
A supplementary 2019 budget of $10.24 billion — $10.08bn from the Consolidated Revenue Fund and $160.8m from Retention Funds — with Lands and Agriculture taking $3.39bn, a third of the entire top-up.
This Bill applies a further sum of money for the year ending 31 December 2019, on top of the original 2019 appropriation.
The Consolidated Revenue Fund is charged with not more than $10,076,835,000, and the Retention Funds with a further $160,792,000, giving a total of $10,237,627,000.
The money is heavily concentrated. Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement takes $3,392,970,000 — about a third of the whole supplementary budget, and most of it under the single Policy and Administration programme at $2.95 billion. The next largest are Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare at $828,588,000 (of which social welfare alone is $819 million), Transport and Infrastructural Development at $761,295,000, Defence and War Veterans at $551,201,000, Health and Child Care at $507,061,000, and the Office of the President and Cabinet at $499,565,000.
As with other appropriation Bills, the Minister of Finance may move money between Votes when a service is reassigned to another Ministry, and may release the Unallocated Reserve in Vote 5 to other Ministries for a stated purpose, returning anything unspent.
The Bill states amounts in dollars without naming the currency, so the denomination has to be read from the 2019 context rather than from the text.
What changed
- Consolidated Revenue Fund charged with a further $10,076,835,000 for the year ending 31 December 2019
- Retention Funds charged with a further $160,792,000
- Total supplementary appropriation of $10,237,627,000
- Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement receives $3,392,970,000, the largest single vote
- Social Welfare receives $819,090,000 within the Public Service vote
- The Minister of Finance may transfer between Votes and release the Unallocated Reserve of Vote 5
Who this affects
- government ministries receiving supplementary funding
- suppliers and contractors to government
- farmers and agricultural programmes funded through the Lands vote
- social welfare recipients
- budget analysts and economists
Plain-language summary — not legal advice. Always read the full instrument.