Home | Databases | WorldLII | Search | Feedback Tonga Sessional Legislation

  Download original PDF

1997-98 Appropriation Act 1997

TONGA

1997-98 APPROPRIATION ACT, 1997

No. 5 of 1997.

I assent,
TAUFA'AHAU TUPOU IV,
1st July, 1997.

AN ACT

TO APPROPRIATE MONEYS TO THE SERVICE OF THE GOVERNMENT

[1st July, 1997].

BE IT ENACTED by the King and Legislative Assembly of Tonga in the Legislature of the Kingdom as follows:

1. This Act may be cited as The 1997-98 Appropriation Act, 1997 and shall be deemed to have come into operation on the first day of July 1997.

2. There shall be issued from general revenue and other funds of the Kingdom and applied to the service of the year ending the thirtieth day of June, One thousand nine hundred and ninety eight any sum or sums not exceeding the sum of sixty three million and eleven thousand three hundred and ninety nine pa'anga for defraying the charge of the Government of Tonga for such period for the purposes set out in the Schedule.

3. The Minister of Finance shall issue and pay such sums for the purposes set out in the Schedule not exceeding in the whole the sums respectively in that behalf as the Prime Minister shall warrant under his hand direct.

4. The moneys granted by this Act are intended for the services in respect of which moneys will become payable within the financial year ending of 30th June 1998 any balance therefore unissued at the end of the month of June 1998 shall lapse and not be available for making payments in any subsequent month.

Passed by the Legislative Assembly this 1st day of July, 1997.

SCHEDULE