KINGDOM OF TONGA

2017/2018 APPROPRIATION ACT 2017

Act 5 of 2017

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE MONEYS TO THE SERVICE OF GOVERNMENT

I assent, 
TUPOU VI, 
5th July 2017. 

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

1 This Act maybe cited as the 2017/2018 Appropriation Act 2017 and shall come into effect on 1 July 2017. 

2 There shall be issued from public money and applied to the service of the year ending the thirtieth of June, Two Thousand and Eighteen, any sum or sums not exceeding the sum of three hundred and eighty two million, four hundred and forty nine thousand, one hundred pa’anga for defraying the charge of the Government of Tonga for such period. 

3 Money appropriated under this Act may be expended only in relation to the purposes set out in this Act. 

4 The Minister of Finance shall issue and make funds available according to this Act and in accordance to the cash flow forecasts agreed between the head of the entity responsible for the Vote and the Minister of Finance. 

5 The authority to expend cash or incur expenses or liabilities under this Act will lapse on 30 June 2018. 
 
Passed by the Legislative Assembly this 29th day of June 2017.
SCHEDULE 

Vote 	Ministry  	 	Amount  	
01 	Palace Office  	$ 	4,894,900 	
02 	Legislative Assembly  	$ 	7,901,800 	
03 	Tonga Office of the Auditor General 	$ 	1,896,000 	
04 	Office of the Ombudsman 	$ 	1,733,800 	
05 	Ministry of Foreign Affairs  	$ 	10,892,300 	
06 	His Majesty’s Armed Forces  	$ 	9,630,100 	
07 	Prime Minister’s Office  	$ 	3,958,500 	
08 	Ministry of Finance and National Planning  	$ 	101,873,300 	
09 	Ministry of Revenue and Customs  	$ 	12,348,700 	
10 	Ministry of Public Enterprises  	$ 	5,395,900 	
11 	Ministry of Commerce, Consumer, Trade, Innovation and Labour  	$ 	7,287,100 	
12 	Ministry of Justice and Prisons  	$ 	10,733,000 	
13 	Attorney General’s Office  	$ 	3,204,200 	
14 	Ministry of Police and Fire Services  	$ 	15,259,400 	
15 	Ministry of Health  	$ 	42,556,400 	
16 	Ministry of Education and Training  	$ 	57,362,800 	
17 	Ministry of Internal Affairs  	$ 	12,378,700 	
18 	Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Forestry 	$ 	8,258,000 	
19 	Ministry of Infrastructure  	$ 	20,482,300 	
20 	Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources  	$ 	5,136,500 	
21 	Public Service Commission  	$ 	2,055,600 	
22 	Statistics Department  	$ 	3,336,300 	
23 	Ministry of Meteorology, Energy, Information, Disaster Management, Environment, Communications and Climate Change  	$ 	23,449,900 	
24 	Ministry of Fisheries  	$ 	5,210,100 	
25 	Ministry of Tourism  	$ 	5,213,500 	
 	Total Expenditure  	$ 	382,449,100