5th Session, 42nd Legislature

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Bill 42

THE APPROPRIATION ACT, 2023

(Assented to                                         )

HIS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, enacts as follows:

Definitions

1   The following definitions apply in this Act.

"appropriation" means a sum voted for operating expenditures, capital investment or loans and guarantees as set out in the Estimates. (« crédit »)

"Estimates" means the Manitoba Estimates of Expenditure for the 2023-2024 fiscal year as tabled in the Assembly. (« budget »)

"2023-2024 fiscal year" means the period beginning April 1, 2023, and ending March 31, 2024. (« exercice 2023-2024 »)

Expenditure authority — operating

2(1)   For the 2023-2024 fiscal year, operating expenditures of up to $16,802,673,000 may be incurred for the public service according to the appropriations set out in Part A of the Estimates and summarized in the Schedule.

Expenditure authority — capital investment

2(2)   For the 2023-2024 fiscal year, up to $1,002,855,000 may be paid out of the Consolidated Fund and applied to capital investment according to the appropriations set out in Part B of the Estimates and summarized in the Schedule.

Expenditure authority — loans and guarantees

2(3)   For the 2023-2024 fiscal year, up to $494,794,000 may be paid out of the Consolidated Fund and applied to loans and guarantees according to the appropriations set out in Part C of the Estimates and summarized in the Schedule.

Expenditure authority — capital investment by other reporting entities

2(4)   For the 2023-2024 fiscal year, up to $913,907,000 may be paid out of the Consolidated Fund and applied to capital investments by other reporting entities according to the appropriations set out in Part D of the Estimates and summarized in the Schedule.

Expenditures by responsible department

3   An operating expenditure, capital investment, loan or guarantee authorized by this Act may be made by the Crown through any government department that, during the 2023-2024 fiscal year, has become responsible for the program or activity that includes that expenditure, investment, loan or guarantee.

Limit on expenditures for inventory

4   Up to $50,000,000 may be paid out of the Consolidated Fund in the 2023-2024 fiscal year for the purpose of developing or acquiring inventory to be disposed of in a subsequent year.

Limit on payments for certain long-term liabilities

5   Up to $325,000,000 may be paid out of the Consolidated Fund in the 2023-2024 fiscal year for the purpose of reducing or eliminating a long-term liability previously accrued under section 66 of The Financial Administration Act.

Limit on commitments to future expenditures

6   The commitments made in the 2023-2024 fiscal year under section 45 of The Financial Administration Act to ensure completion of projects or contracts initiated in the year must not exceed $2,000,000,000.

Additional authority for loans and guarantees

7   Until changed by another Act of the Legislature, the total of the loans and guarantees that the government provides under section 63 of The Financial Administration Act in a fiscal year must not exceed $400,000,000.

Transfer re 2023-2024 fiscal year appropriations for capital investment

8(1)   For the 2023-2024 fiscal year, Treasury Board may authorize the Minister of Finance to direct the transfer of an amount of an appropriation in Part B of the Estimates or Part D of the Estimates that has not been expended within a service heading if each of the following conditions is met:

1.The amount transferred is not more than 25% of the amount voted for the appropriation.

2.The amount is transferred to an appropriation in Part B of the Estimates or Part D of the Estimates, as the case may be, in respect of one or more of the following departments and purposes:

(a) Education and Early Childhood Learning, to support the acquisition, construction or alteration of, or other capital investment in, one or more school buildings;

(b) Health, to support the health capital program;

(c) Families, to support the acquisition, construction or alteration of, or other capital investment in, public housing;

(d) Transportation and Infrastructure, to support the construction of, or other capital investment in, provincial infrastructure assets.

3.The department that receives the amount transferred has insufficient expenditure authority for the purpose otherwise.

Non-application

8(2)   Subsection (1) does not apply to the appropriation in Part D of the Estimates within the service heading "Municipal Relations".

Transfer exception to any other authorization

8(3)   Subsection (1) applies despite clause 34(a) of The Financial Administration Act or any other Act of the Legislature that authorizes money to be paid out of the Consolidated Fund.

Report in public accounts

8(4)   The net effect of all transfers made under subsection (1) must be reported in the public accounts, as defined in section 1 of The Financial Administration Act, for the 2023-2024 fiscal year.

Interim authority subsumed

9(1)   The authority provided by this Act subsumes the authority provided for in The Interim Appropriation Act, 2023.

Repeal

9(2)   The Interim Appropriation Act, 2023, S.M. 2023, c. 1, is repealed.

Coming into force

10   This Act comes into force on the day it receives royal assent.

SCHEDULE

SUMMARY OF APPROPRIATIONS

2023-2024

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