Appropriation (2025/26 Supplementary Estimates) Bill
This bill seeks parliamentary authorisation of the individual appropriations and changes to individual appropriations contained in The Supplementary Estimates of Appropriations for the Government of New Zealand for the Year Ending 30 June 2026.
This bill has been accorded urgency in the House.
First detected 11 July 2026, 9:20am UTC.
Member in charge:
Hon Nicola Willis
· Government bill
· No. 324-1
· urgency accorded 28 May 2026 (the first reading of the)
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Published 12 Jul 2026, 7:22pm UTC (separate from, and later than, the alert timestamp above)
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In short: Authorises new appropriations and increases/decreases to existing 2025/26 appropriations, multi-year appropriations, and departmental capital injections set out in the Supplementary Estimates.
What changes
Expands a powerAuthorises the Crown and Offices of Parliament to incur the new expenses and capital expenditure set out in column 4 of Schedule 1 for the 2025/26 financial year.
s 6
· affects: the Crown, Offices of Parliament, government departments
· confidence: high
The bill text this is based on
“is appropriated for the purpose of authorising the Crown or an Office of Parliament to incur expenses, capital expenditure, or expenses and capital expenditure (as applicable) against the appropriation specified in column 3 of Schedule 1”
Changes a thresholdVaries existing 2025/26 appropriations authorised by the Appropriation (2025/26 Estimates) Act 2025 by increasing or decreasing them by the amounts in column 4 of Schedule 1.
s 6 → Appropriation (2025/26 Estimates) Act 2025
· affects: the Crown, Offices of Parliament
· confidence: high
The bill text this is based on
“the appropriation is varied by the amount specified in column 4 of Schedule 1 alongside the appropriation as follows:”
Expands a powerAuthorises new multi-year appropriations and varies existing ones by the amounts in column 5 of Schedule 2, each limited to the periods specified in column 4.
s 7
· affects: the Crown
· confidence: high
The bill text this is based on
“is appropriated for the purpose of authorising the Crown to incur expenses or capital expenditure (as applicable) against the appropriation specified in column 3 of Schedule 2 alongside the amount”
Narrows a powerRevokes the authority for 10 named multi-year appropriations with effect from the close of 30 June 2026.
s 7(10)-(19)
· affects: the Crown
· confidence: high
The bill text this is based on
“The appropriation authorised by section 7 of the Appropriation (2024/25 Estimates) Act 2024 for Vote Agriculture, Biosecurity, Fisheries and Food Safety for the category of non-departmental other expenses “Sustainable Food and Fibre Futures Fund”, as varied by subsection (1), is revoked with effect from the close of 30 June 2026.”
Expands a powerAuthorises new capital injections and varies the limits of existing capital injections to departments by the amounts in column 3 of Schedule 3 for the 2025/26 financial year.
s 8 → Appropriation (2025/26 Estimates) Act 2025
· affects: the Crown, government departments
· confidence: high
The bill text this is based on
“The Crown is authorised to make capital injections during the 2025/26 financial year to each department specified in column 1 of Schedule 3 to which subsection (1) does not apply.”
the CrownOffices of Parliamentgovernment departments
Scrutiny
Taken under urgency; the compressed timetable limited scrutiny even where a committee stage existed.
Commencement: The Act comes into force on the day after Royal assent.
Retrospective: no provision identified
Gaps we can see.
Clauses whose effect could not be established from the bill text alone:
s 7(8) - scope of the Local Government Funding Agency Liquidity Facility appropriation relies on the scope defined in the Appropriation (2024/25 Supplementary Estimates) Act 2025, whose text is not supplied, s 6(4), s 7(7) - the actual scope of each appropriation is set by the Supplementary Estimates (B.7) document, which is not part of the supplied text.
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verbatim span of that text, checked mechanically — claims that fail the check are
dropped, not softened. Text analysed from
an archived copy of the
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The law, before and after
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Every amendment instruction in the bill, executed mechanically against the archived text
of the Act it changes. Struck text is removed,
highlighted text is added.
0 operations resolved; 16 listed with
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Target not stated · 0 resolved, 16 unresolved
Shown as writtencl 5 — Interpretation
The bill says: In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-
We haven’t applied this one as a diff: the bill doesn't state which enactment this instruction amends in a form we can read — the change is shown as written.
Shown as writtencl 5 — Interpretation
The bill says: in the case of an appropriation under section 6,-
We haven’t applied this one as a diff: the bill doesn't state which enactment this instruction amends in a form we can read — the change is shown as written.
Shown as writtencl 5 — Interpretation
The bill says: in the table headed "Annual Appropriations and Forecast Permanent Appropriations"; and
We haven’t applied this one as a diff: the bill doesn't state which enactment this instruction amends in a form we can read — the change is shown as written.
Shown as writtencl 5 — Interpretation
The bill says: in the column headed "Titles and Scopes of Appropriations by Appropriation Type"; and
We haven’t applied this one as a diff: the bill doesn't state which enactment this instruction amends in a form we can read — the change is shown as written.
Shown as writtencl 5 — Interpretation
The bill says: in the statement directly under the title of the appropriation or, in the case of a multi-category appropriation, under the name of each of the individual categories that are included in the appropriation; and
We haven’t applied this one as a diff: the bill doesn't state which enactment this instruction amends in a form we can read — the change is shown as written.
Shown as writtencl 5 — Interpretation
The bill says: in the case of an appropriation under section 7 (other than a multi-category appropriation),-
We haven’t applied this one as a diff: the bill doesn't state which enactment this instruction amends in a form we can read — the change is shown as written.
Shown as writtencl 5 — Interpretation
The bill says: in the table headed "Multi-Year Appropriations"; and
We haven’t applied this one as a diff: the bill doesn't state which enactment this instruction amends in a form we can read — the change is shown as written.
Shown as writtencl 5 — Interpretation
The bill says: in the column headed "Type, Title, Scope and Period of Appropriations"; and
We haven’t applied this one as a diff: the bill doesn't state which enactment this instruction amends in a form we can read — the change is shown as written.
Shown as writtencl 5 — Interpretation
The bill says: in the statement directly under the title of the appropriation; and
We haven’t applied this one as a diff: the bill doesn't state which enactment this instruction amends in a form we can read — the change is shown as written.
Shown as writtencl 5 — Interpretation
The bill says: in the case of an appropriation under section 7 that is a multi-category appropriation,-
We haven’t applied this one as a diff: the bill doesn't state which enactment this instruction amends in a form we can read — the change is shown as written.
Shown as writtencl 5 — Interpretation
The bill says: in the table headed "Multi-Year Multi-Category Appropriations"; and
We haven’t applied this one as a diff: the bill doesn't state which enactment this instruction amends in a form we can read — the change is shown as written.
Shown as writtencl 5 — Interpretation
The bill says: in the column headed "Title, Overarching Purpose and Period of Appropriations and Type and Scope of Categories"; and
We haven’t applied this one as a diff: the bill doesn't state which enactment this instruction amends in a form we can read — the change is shown as written.
Shown as writtencl 5 — Interpretation
The bill says: in the statement directly under the name of each of the individual categories that are included in the appropriation
We haven’t applied this one as a diff: the bill doesn't state which enactment this instruction amends in a form we can read — the change is shown as written.
Shown as writtencl 6 — Appropriations for 2025/26 financial year
The bill says: in advance, but within the scope, of the appropriation.
We haven’t applied this one as a diff: the bill doesn't state which enactment this instruction amends in a form we can read — the change is shown as written.
Shown as writtencl 7 — Appropriations applying for more than 1 financial year
The bill says: in advance, but within the scope, of the appropriation.
We haven’t applied this one as a diff: the bill doesn't state which enactment this instruction amends in a form we can read — the change is shown as written.
Shown as writtencl 8 — Capital injections authorised for 2025/26 financial year
The bill says: in advance of the authorisation.
We haven’t applied this one as a diff: the bill doesn't state which enactment this instruction amends in a form we can read — the change is shown as written.
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Source record — the urgency motion as published
28 May 2026
— scope: the first reading of the
(First reading)
A motion to accord urgency to the following business was agreed to:
- the first reading of the Appropriation (2025/26 Supplementary Estimates) Bill;
- the introduction and passing through all stages of:
- the Taxation (Budget Measures) Bill (No 3);
- the Social Security (Modernisation) Amendment Bill;
- the Gas (Market Transparency) Amendment Bill;
- the third reading of:
- the Regulatory Systems (Internal Affairs) Amendment Bill;
- the Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Amendment Bill;
- the remaining stages of:
- the Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Amendment Bill; and
- the Patents Amendment Bill;
