Budget Transfer: Jersey Airport: Cute (Common User Terminal Equipment) System Upgrade

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A decision made 11 May 2015:

Decision Reference: MD-TR-2015-0055
Decision Summary Title:	Budget Transfer from Jersey Airport Minor Capital Assets to CUTE.		Date of Decision Summary:	18 March 2015
Decision Summary Author:	Head of Decision Support		Decision Summary: Public or Exempt?	Public
Type of Report: Oral or Written?	Written		Person Giving Oral Report:	N/A
Written Report Title:	Budget Transfer from Jersey Airport Minor Capital Assets to CUTE.		Date of Written Report:	18 March 2015
Written Report Author:	Head of Decision Support		Written Report : Public or Exempt?	Public
Subject: Non-recurring budget transfer of £78,000.00 from Jersey Airport Minor Capital Assets to CUTE (Common User Terminal Equipment) for the CUTE system upgrade.
Decision(s): The Treasurer approved a non-recurring budget transfer of £78,000.00 from Minor Capital Assets to CUTE for the Common User Terminal Equipment system upgrade.
Reason(s) for Decision: Regulation 22 (2)(b) of the Public Finance (Transitional Provisions) (No.2) (Jersey) Regulations 2005 states that Money standing to the credit of the trading fund of a States trading operation may also be used, with the approval of the Minister, for a capital project of the trading operation if – the project arises from a contingency that could not have been reasonably foreseen at the time the estimates of the States trading operation were submitted to the Minister in accordance with Article 8 of the 2005 Law for inclusion as part of an annual business plan.
Resource Implications: Minor Capital Assets to decrease by £78,000.00 in 2015 and the CUTE head of expenditure to increase by an identical amount.
Action required: Head of Decision Support to notify the Finance Manager – Corporate Group, Group Financial Controller and the Head of Financial Performance Reporting that this decision has been approved.
Signature:		Position: Senator A J H Maclean, Minister for Treasury and Resources
Date Signed:		Date of Decision: