AUTHORIZATION OF EXPENDITURE FROM CONSOLIDATED FUND BY APPROPRIATION LAW
92.- 1. The Minister for the time being responsible for finance shall
cause to be prepared and laid before the House before, or not later than ninety
days after, the commencement of each financial year, estimates of the revenues
and expenditure of Antigua and Barbuda for that financial year.
2. When the estimates of expenditure (other than expenditure charged upon the
Consolidated Fund by this Constitution or by any law enacted by Parliament)
have been approved by the House, a bill to be known as an appropriation bill
shall be introduced in the House, providing for the issue from the Consolidated
Fund of the sums necessary to meet that expenditure and the appropriation of
those sums, under separate votes for the several services required, for the
purposes specified therein.
3. If in respect of any financial year it is found-
a. that the amount appropriated by the appropriation law for any purpose is
insufficient or that a need has arisen for expenditure for a purpose to which
no amount has been appropriated by that law; or
b. that any monies have been expended for any purpose in excess of the amount
appropriated for that purpose by the appropriation law or for a purpose to
which no amount has been appropriated by that law.
a supplementary estimate showing the sums required or spent shall be laid
before the House and, when the supplementary estimate has been approved by the
House, a supplementary appropriation bill shall be introduced in the House
providing for the issue of such sums from the Consolidated Fund and
appropriating then to the purposes specified therein.
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