The purpose of this Act is to—
(a) authorise the Crown to incur expenses and capital expenditure during the financial year ending with 30 June 2009 by appropriating expenses and capital expenditure for that financial year; and
(b) authorise the Crown to incur expenses and capital expenditure for more than 1 financial year for certain specified matters by appropriating expenses and capital expenditure for more than 1 financial year for those matters; and
(c) set out the net assets for each department (other than an intelligence and security department) and Office of Parliament for the purposes of section 22 of the Public Finance Act 1989; and
(d) list appropriations that are subject to the reporting requirements of section 32A of the Public Finance Act 1989.