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Jersey Harbours Trading Fund: Approval to use for Jersey Harbours GBJ Project

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A decision made on 27 April 2015:

Decision Reference:  MD-TR-2015-0036

Decision Summary Title:

Use of Jersey Harbours Trading Fund for Jersey Harbours Terminal GBJ project

Date of Decision Summary:

16th 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:

Use of Jersey Harbours Trading Fund for Terminal GBJ project

Date of Written Report:

16th March 2015

Written Report Author:

Head of Decision Support

Written Report :

Public or Exempt?

Qualified Exempt: Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011, Article 35

Subject:  Approval for use of Jersey Harbours Trading Fund for Jersey Harbours Terminal GBJ project.

Decision(s): The Minister approved additional expenditure of up to £500,000 for the Jersey Harbours Terminal GBJ project from the Jersey Harbours Trading Fund.

Reason(s) for Decision:  Regulation 22 (2)(b) of the Public Finances (Transitional Provisions) (No 2) (Jersey) Regulations 2005 provides 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.

 

The Elizabeth Terminal bar, café and restaurant is to be refurbished. The concept is a partnership with Ports of Jersey investing capital to refurbish the new facility to enable the unit to be leased out.

Resource Implications: The available balance of the Jersey Harbours Trading Fund will be reduced by £500,000 and the Jersey Harbours Terminal GBJ project capital head of expenditure will be increased by £500,000.

Action required:  

Head of Decision Support to notify Financial Performance Reporting Manager and Group Financial Controller, Ports of Jersey, that this decision has been approved.

 

A new capital head of expenditure for the Jersey Harbours Terminal GBJ project to be set up.

Signature:

Position: Senator A J H Maclean, Minister for Treasury and Resources

Date Signed:

 

Date of Decision:

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