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Appropriation Act 2022

COOK ISLANDS

Appropriation Act 2022


2022, No. 1


In the name and on behalf of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second I hereby assent to this Act this 2nd day of June, 2022

Queen's Representative


Contents

1
Title
2
Application
3
Grant and appropriation out of the Cook Islands Government Account

Schedule 1
Agency Budget Appropriations
Schedule 2
Payments on Behalf of the Crown (POBOCs)
Schedule 3
Cook Islands Capital Spending
Schedule 4
Official Development Assistance
Schedule 5a
Other Expenses and Financing Transactions
Schedule 5b
Loan Repayment Fund (LRF) Appropriations
Summary
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An Act to appropriate certain sums of money out of the Cook Islands Government Account to the services of the year ending on the thirtieth day of June 2023 and to appropriate the supplies granted in this period

MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN: We, Your Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Parliament of the Cook Islands, towards making good the supply which we have cheerfully granted to Your Majesty in this year, have resolved to grant Your Majesty the sum specified in this Act and humbly ask Your Majesty to assent to the sum. And be it enacted by the Parliament of the Cook Islands in Session assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows—

1 Title

This Act is the Appropriation Act 2022.

2 Application

This Act applies to the year ending on the thirtieth day of June 2023 (“the year”).

3 Grant and appropriation out of the Cook Islands Government Account

(1) The Minister responsible for Finance may authorise the incurrence of expenses or expenditure and may issue and apply out of the Cook Islands Government Account, towards making good the supplies granted to Her Majesty for the services of the year, any sums which in total do not exceed the sum of $320,392,247.

(2) Subject to subsection (3) the sums authorised to be supplied are appropriated for the services set out in the votes specified in the Schedules to this Act.

(3) The votes identified in Schedule 4 to this Act as being funded through loans from financing partners or from grants by development partners are further limited to the lesser of the votes specified in those Schedules and the loan proceeds or grants received for the purpose of financing the expense or expenditure in relation to those votes.

(4) Notwithstanding Section 37 of the Ministry of Finance and Economic Management Act 1995-96, the appropriations made under this Act will lapse on 30 June 2023.

(5) Payments that may be charged against any appropriation made by this Act after 30 June 2023 are limited to—

(a) self-balancing journal entries to correct posting errors during the year ended 30 June 2023; or
(b) expenses incurred or payments due during the year ended 30 June 2023 for which a valid invoice was submitted before 30 June 2023, but for which a payment or payments to extinguish that liability in relation to that invoice had not been made by 30 June 2023.

(6) The appropriations made in the Appropriation Act 2021 will lapse on 30 June 2022.

(7) Payments that may be charged after 30 June 2022 against any appropriation that lapses under the provisions of subsection (6) are limited to—

(a) self-balancing journal entries to correct posting errors during the year ended 30 June 2022; or
(b) expenses incurred or payments due during the year ended 30 June 2022 for which a valid invoice was submitted before 30 June 2022, but for which a payment or payments to extinguish the liability in relation to that invoice had not been made by 30 June 2022.

(8) Where in the period ended 30 June 2022, the Financial Secretary appointed under section 4 of the Ministry of Finance and Economic Management Act 1995-96 had directed that an unexpended appropriation from an Appropriation Act for a previous year be available for expenditure in the year ended 30 June 2022, those appropriations will also lapse on 30 June 2022.

(9) Payments that may be charged after 30 June 2022 against any appropriation that lapses under the provisions of subsection (8) are limited to—

(a) self-balancing journal entries to correct posting errors during the year ended 30 June 2022; or
(b) expenses incurred or payments due during the year ended 30 June 2022 for which a valid invoice was submitted before 30 June 2022, but for which a payment or payments to extinguish the liability in relation to that invoice had not been made by 30 June 2022.

Schedule 1
Agency Budget Appropriations

Agency
Personnel
Operating
Administered Payments
Depreciation
Gross Current Appropriation
Trading Revenue
Net Current Appropriation
Agriculture
1,095,572
314,509
0
45,000
1,455,081
90,535
1,364,546
Audit (PERCA)
996,953
119,701
0
16,000
1,132,654
156,300
976,354
Business Trade and Investment Board
365,000
242,266
0
4,000
611,266
27,400
583,866
Cook Islands Investment Corporation
1,458,000
824,000
1,200,000
45,000
3,527,000
753,831
2,773,169
Corrective Services
1,459,326
229,131
0
41,000
1,729,457
100,000
1,629,457
Crown Law
987,500
163,500
50,000
3,000
1,204,000
0
1,204,000
Cultural Development
734,250
128,000
615,000
89,500
1,566,750
170,000
1,396,750
Education
12,230,197
2,495,820
4,834,602
615,000
20,175,619
0
20,175,619
Environment
990,826
201,000
412,241
30,000
1,634,067
35,000
1,599,067
Finance and Economic Management
6,534,508
822,419
22,504,650
260,000
30,121,577
954,341
29,167,236
Financial Services Development Authority
242,797
177,906
30,000
3,000
453,703
0
453,703
Foreign Affairs
1,932,692
1,019,103
15,000
45,000
3,011,795
28,000
2,983,795
Head Of State
178,548
22,658
36,000
14,000
251,206
0
251,206
Health
12,833,011
3,648,951
2,536,870
1,570,000
20,588,832
350,000
20,238,832
Infrastructure Cook Islands
2,369,871
379,129
2,480,000
145,000
5,374,000
300,000
5,074,000
Internal Affairs
1,357,376
299,000
3,204,217
12,000
4,872,593
0
4,872,593
of which: Welfare Payments - Allowances

1,307,217



Justice
2,028,976
350,000
460,000
23,000
2,861,976
425,000
2,436,976
Marine Resources
1,478,942
455,058
150,000
150,000
2,234,000
20,000
2,214,000
Ombudsman
233,000
62,000
0
6,000
301,000
0
301,000
Parliamentary Services
620,100
80,000
120,000
72,720
892,820
0
892,820
Police
4,154,896
286,104
215,000
1,010,000
5,666,000
154,783
5,511,217
Prime Minister's Office
1,532,200
459,000
1,193,000
15,000
3,199,200
0
3,199,200
Public Service Commission
350,000
191,510
1,903,170
5,000
2,449,680
0
2,449,680
Cook Islands Seabed Minerals Authority
590,944
299,056
100,000
9,500
999,500
240,000
759,500
Tourism Corporation
2,300,022
1,319,978
4,500,000
52,000
8,172,000
0
8,172,000
Transport
1,023,500
150,221
0
25,609
1,199,330
41,221
1,158,109
Total Ministries, Crown & Statutory Agencies
60,079,007
14,740,020
46,559,750
4,306,329
125,685,106
3,846,411
121,838,695
Ministerial Support






Prime Minister
406,069
121,289
0
12,642
540,000
0
540,000
Deputy Prime Minister
297,800
70,611
0
9,589
378,000
0
378,000
Ministerial Support 1
181,000
115,838
0
11,162
308,000
0
308,000
Ministerial Support 2
164,000
132,000
0
12,000
308,000
0
308,000
Ministerial Support 3
217,500
85,000
0
5,500
308,000
0
308,000
Ministerial Support 4
188,901
109,509
0
9,590
308,000
0
308,000
Leader Of Opposition
163,712
131,462
0
12,826
308,000
0
308,000
Total Ministerial Support Offices
1,618,982
765,709
0
73,309
2,458,000
0
2,458,000

Outer Islands






Aitutaki
1,240,593
417,547
0
480,000
2,138,140
67,828
2,070,312
Atiu
913,445
458,918
0
430,000
1,802,363
224,318
1,578,045
Mangaia
984,863
611,848
0
210,000
1,806,711
301,000
1,505,711
Manihiki
760,803
159,165
0
460,000
1,379,968
119,000
1,260,968
Mauke
825,143
237,194
0
380,000
1,442,337
113,853
1,328,484
Mitiaro
733,595
88,527
0
93,000
915,122
60,900
854,222
Palmerston
284,152
71,851
0
80,000
436,003
20,500
415,503
Penrhyn
667,783
180,836
0
180,000
1,028,619
74,000
954,619
Pukapuka-Nassau
943,074
155,503
0
215,000
1,313,577
73,695
1,239,882
Rakahanga
429,844
67,761
0
82,000
579,605
52,000
527,605
Total Outer Islands
7,783,295
2,449,150
0
2,610,000
12,842,445
1,107,094
11,735,351
Gross Total
69,481,284
17,954,879
46,559,750
6,989,638
140,985,551
4,953,505
136,032,046

Schedule 2
PAYMENTS ON BEHALF OF THE CROWN (POBOCs)

Administering Ministry
POBOC
2021/22 Budget Estimate
2022/23 Budget Estimate
Compensation of Employees


Finance & Economic Management
Parliamentary Superannuation
180,000
180,000
Audit
PERC Salaries and Administration Costs
57,500
57,500
Parliamentary Services
Civil List - Personnel
2,901,961
2,901,961
Parliamentary Services
House of Ariki
348,420
0
Cultural Development
House of Ariki (CI)
0
326,690

Compensation of Employees POBOCs
3,487,881
3,466,151
Use of Goods and Services


Audit
Audit Fees
95,600
103,000
Prime Minister's Office
Local Government Election
0
0
Parliamentary Services
Civil List - Constituency Visits
170,200
170,200
Parliamentary Services
Parliamentary Sitting Expenses
200,000
200,000
Parliamentary Services
QR Travel and Allowances (local and overseas)
109,000
109,000
Parliamentary Services
MP Travel and Allowances (local and overseas)
180,000
230,000
Foreign Affairs
International Maritime Organisation - Maritime Cook Islands
63,461
63,461
Transport
Maritime Radio Coverage
120,000
120,000

Use of Goods and Services POBOCs
938,261
995,661
Subsidies


Cook Islands Investment Corporation
Airport Authority subsidy
2,047,997
2,047,997
Cook Islands Investment Corporation
Bank of the Cook Islands - social assistance subsidy
128,000
128,000
Cook Islands Investment Corporation
Ports Authority - subsidy
110,099
110,099
Cook Islands Investment Corporation
Te Aponga Uira - social assistance subsidy
0
0
Cook Islands Investment Corporation
Te Mana Uira o Araura - subsidy
0
0
Cook Islands Investment Corporation
To Tatou Vai (CI)
0
3,000,000

Subsidies POBOCs
2,286,096
5,286,096
Social Assistance


Internal Affairs
Welfare Payments
20,227,000
21,067,190

Social Assistance POBOCs
20,227,000
21,067,190
Other Expense


Finance & Economic Management
Pacific Catastrophe Risk Insurance
160,000
160,000
Finance & Economic Management
CIG Insurance
40,000
40,000
Finance & Economic Management
BEPS Subscription
35,000
45,000
Finance & Economic Management
Competition and Regulatory Authority (CRA)
620,574
400,000
Foreign Affairs
International Subscriptions
890,000
890,000

Other Expenses POBOCs
1,745,574
1,535,000
Grand Total
28,684,812
32,350,098

Schedule 3
Cook Islands Capital Spending
2021/22 Budget Estimate
2022/23 Budget Estimate
Cook Islands Government Capital programs
32,001,262
34,159,912
Total Capital spending
32,001,262
34,159,912

Schedule 4
Official Development Assistance[1]
2021/22 Budget Estimate
2022/23 Budget Estimate
Operating or recurrent expenditure
25,340,981
26,304,809
Capital Project Expenditure
28,473,479
65,147,594
Total Official Development Assistance
53,814,460
91,452,403

Schedule 5a
Other Expenses and Financing Transactions

Category of Expense
2021/22 Budget Estimate
2022/23 Budget Estimate
Contingency Funds - Operating
100,000
100,000
Crown Infrastructure Depreciation
4,603,000
4,603,000
Provisional for Doubtful Debts
0
0
Transfer to Emergency Response Trust Fund
50,000
50,000
Advanced Subsidiaries - Avaroa Cable Ltd
0
0
Transfer to Reserve Trust Fund
0
0
Depreciation Contingency Fund
2,174,000
2,174,000
Total Other Expenses
6,927,000
6,927,000

Schedule 5b
Loan Repayment Fund Appropriations

Category of Appropriation
2021/22 Budget Estimate
2022/23 Budget Estimate
Contribution to LRF - Principal
8,860,401
7,737,276
Contribution to LRF - Interest
4,051,495
6,780,007
Total Contribution to LRF
12,911,896
14,517,283

Summary

Category of Payment
2021/22 Budget Estimate
2022/23 Budget Estimate
Schedule 1 - Ministry Outputs (Gross Operating)
165,710,315
140,985,551
Schedule 2 - POBOCs
28,684,812
32,350,098
Schedule 3 - CIG Capital Expenditure
32,001,262
34,159,912
Schedule 4 - Official Development Assistance
53,814,460
91,452,403
Schedule 5a - Other Expenses and Financing Transactions
6,927,000
6,927,000
Schedule 5b - Loan Reserve Fund Appropriations
12,911,896
14,517,283
TOTAL APPROPRIATION
300,049,745
320,392,247

_______________________________

This Act is administered by the Ministry of Finance and Economic Management.
Printed under the authority of the Cook Islands Parliament—2022
_______________________________


[1] Excluding Budget Support and Core Sector Support appropriated through agencies in Schedule 1.

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