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Drought Relief Adjustments Appropriation Act


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Drought Relief Adjustments Appropriation Act [No. 3 of 2004]


Government Gazette
REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA

Vol. 465 Cape Town 31 March 2004 No. 26223
THE PRESIDENCY No. 438 31 March 2004
It is hereby notified that the President has assented to the following Act, which is hereby published for general information:–
No. 3 of 2004: Drought Relief Adjustments Appropriation Act, 2004.

2 No. 26223 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE. 3 1 MARCH 2004
Act No. 3,2004 DROUGHT RELIEF ADJUSTMENTS APPROPRIATION ACT. 2004
(English text signed by thr President.) (Assented to 30 March 2004.)
ACT To appropriate additional amounts of money for the requirements of the Departments of Health, Social Development, Agriculture and Water Affairs and Forestry in respect of the 2003104 financial year.
B fol1Ows:- E IT ENACTED by the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa, as Appropriation of additional amounts of money for the requirements of the Departments of Health, Social Development, Agriculture and Water Affairs and Forestry 5
1. Subject to the Public Finance Management Act, 1999 (Act No. 1 of 1999), there is hereby appropriated out of the National Revenue Fund for the requirements of-
the Department of Health an amount of R35 million (thirty five million rand) in respect of the 2003104 financial year to fund the prevention of communicable diseases with special emphasis on malaria nd cholera; 10 the Department of Social Development an amount of R60 million (sixty million rand) in respect of the 2003/04 financial year to fund emergency relief to vulnerable communities; the Department of Agriculture an amount of R30 million (thirty million rand) in respect of the 2003/04 financial year to provide fodder for livestock to 15 farming communities; and the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry an amount of R125 million (one hundred and twenty five million rand) in respect of the 2003/04 financial year for the provision of water for human consumption and for consumption by livestock, as well as for security to safeguard boreholes. 20
Short title
2. This Act is called the Drought Relief Adjustments Appropriation Act, 2004.