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APPROPRIATION

HONG KONG

L.S.

No. 16 OF 1979

I assent.

Ord. No. 16/79

A45

MURRAY MacLehose,

Governor.

26th April, 1979.

An Ordinance to apply a sum not exceeding $12.454,070,000 to the service

of the financial year ending on 31 March 1980.

[27th April, 1979]

Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent

of the Legislative Council thereof.

1979.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Appropriation Ordinance Short title.

tion.

2. (1) The appropriation in the manner expressed in the Schedule Authorization of a sum not exceeding $11,541,768,000 from the general revenue and of appropria- other funds of Hong Kong, being the total sum shown in the third Schedule. column of the Schedule, for the service of the financial year commencing on 1 April 1979, and ending on 31 March 1980, is authorized.

(2) The sums shown in the fourth column of the Schedule may be applied as appropriations-in-aid of the votes for the services and purposes specified in the second column of the Schedule.

(3) Where the Financial Secretary directs that any revenue, whether received by way of fee, penalty or proceeds of sale or by way of an extra or unusual receipt, shall be applied as an appropriation-in-aid of any vote referred to in the Schedule, such revenue shall be deemed to be a sum provided under this Ordinance and shall, without being paid into the general revenue, be applied, audited and dealt with accordingly, and so far as it is not so applied shall be paid into the general revenue; and where the revenue so directed to be applied as an appropriation-in-aid of any vote referred to in the Schedule, exceeds in a financial year-

(a) the sum specified in the fourth column of the Schedule as the

amount to be applied to such purpose; or

(b) the sum of gross expenditure specified in the fifth column of the Schedule opposite the head of expenditure specified in the second column of the Schedule,

the excess so realized shall be paid into the general revenue.

SCHEDULE

['s. 2.]

Number

Head of Expenditure

of Vote

Amount

of Vote

Appropria- tions-in-Aid

Gross Expenditure

$

$

21.

His Excellency the Governor's

Establishment

2,320,000

22.

Agriculture and Fisheries Department

71,501,000

1,366,000

2,320.000

72,867,000