ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
APPROPRIATION BILL, 2022
No. OF 2022
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ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
APPROPRIATION BILL, 2022
ARRANGEMENT OF CLAUSES
CLAUSES
1. Short title and commencement ................................................................................................. 4
2. Issue of nine hundred and fifty-five million, eight hundred and seventy-six thousand, one hundred and ninety-four dollars ($955,876,194.) ............................................................................. 4
3. Payment out of Consolidated Fund .......................................................................................... 4
SCHEDULE
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ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
APPROPRIATION BILL, 2022
No. OF 2022
AN ACT to provide for the services of Antigua and Barbuda for the year ending on the 31st day
of December, 2022
ENACTED by the Parliament of Antigua and Barbuda as follows -
1. Short title and commencement
This Act may be cited as the Appropriation Act, 2022 and shall come into operation on the 1st day
of January, 2022
2. Issue of nine hundred and fifty-five million, eight hundred and seventy-six thousand, one hundred and ninety-four dollars ($955,876,194.)
The issue from the Consolidated Fund of the sum of nine hundred and fifty-five million, eight
hundred and seventy-six thousand, one hundred and ninety-four dollars ($955,876,194.) is
authorized in order to meet expenditure for the services of Antigua and Barbuda in respect of
calendar year ending on the thirty-first day of December, 2022, under the Heads of Expenditure
specified in the Schedule; and the sum specified in the Schedule opposite a numbered and named
Head is appropriated out of the sum of nine hundred and fifty-five million, eight hundred and
seventy-six thousand, one hundred and ninety-four dollars ($955,876,194) for the purpose
specified in relation to that numbered and named Head in the Estimates for the year 2022.
3. Payment out of Consolidated Fund
The Accountant General is authorized and required, from time to time upon the order or warrant of
the Minister of Finance, to pay the sums appropriated in the Schedule to the several services and
purposes mentioned as the order or warrant directs out of the Consolidated Fund without further
order or formality.
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SCHEDULE
(Sections 2 and 3)
Head of Expenditure Amount EC($)
DESCRIPTION Recurrent
Expenditure
Development
Expenditure
Statutory
Expenditure
1. Office of the Governor General 1,408,379 - 445,111
2. Legislature 2,301,663 - -
3. Cabinet 3,963,609 - -
4. Judicial 2,805,314 - -
5. Service Commissions 935,259 - -
6. Audit 1,150,036 - 144,840
7. Pension and Gratuities - 71,053,600
8. Public Debt 610,075,998
9. Electoral Commission 197,600 4,226,012
10. Office of the Prime Minister and
Prime Minister's Ministry
35,691,081 5,871,829 -
11. Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
International Trade and Immigration
37,679,959 1,083,188 -
12. Ministry of Housing, Lands and
Urban Renewal
5,752,079 1,946,577 -
13. Ministryof Creative Industries and
Innovations
10,409,559 400,000
15. Ministry of Finance, Corporate
Governance and Public Private
Partnerships
115,755,631 3,103,122 -
20. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and
Barbuda Affairs
17,500,261 900,940 -
25. Ministry of Health, Wellness and the 114,145,830 51,833,741 -
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Environment
30. Ministry of Education and Sports 154,795,759 14,305,861 -
35. Ministry of Energy, Civil Aviation
and Transportation
9,473,795 188,000 -
40. Ministry of Works 87,523,907 88,466,125 -
45. Ministry of Social Transformation,
Human Resource Development and
Blue Economy
26,775,771 255,000 -
55. Attorney General's Office and Ministry
of Legal Affairs, Public Safety, and
Labour
104,080,087 10,007,504
283,596
60. Office of the Ombudsman 310,048
150,750
80. Ministry of Tourism, and Economic
Development
25,586,807 78,793 -
95. Ministry of Information, Broadcasting,
Telecommunications and Information
Technology
16,383,435 2,809,645 -
TOTAL EXPENDITURE
774,428,269
181,447,925
686,379,907
Passed the House of Representatives on
the day of , 2022.
Passed the Senate on the day of
, 2022.
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Speaker.
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President.
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Clerk to the House of Representatives. ………………………………………..
Clerk to the Senate.
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EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
The object of this Bill is to provide for the services of Antigua and Barbuda for the year 2022 in
respect of expenditure under the Heads of Expenditure specified in the Schedule to the Bill by
issue from the Consolidated Fund of the sum of $955,876,194.
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Hon. Gaston Browne
Prime Minister
Minister of Finance and Corporate Governance
Printed for HoR Sitting
3.02.2022
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