| The constitution and laws of Barbados
Authorization of expenditure
109. 1. The Minister responsible for finance shall, in respect of each
financial year, at the earliest convenient moment before the commencement of
that financial year, introduce in the House of Assembly an Appropriation Bill
containing, under appropriate heads for the several services required the
estimated aggregate sums which are proposed to be expended (otherwise than by
way of statutory expenditure) during that financial year.
2. Subject to subsection s(4) and (6), the sums voted on the estimates by the
House of Assembly in respect of a financial year shall represent the limit and
extent of the public expenditure for that financial year.
3. Where any sum is voted on the estimates by the House of Assembly in respect
of a financial year and at the end of that year there is an unexpended balance
of that sum, the unexpended balance shall lapse.
4. The Minister responsible for finance may, in case of necessity, from time to
time cause to be prepared supplementary estimates of expenditure which shall be
laid before and voted on by the House of Assembly.
5. In respect of all supplementary expenditure voted on by the House of
Assembly in pursuance of subsection (4), the Minister responsible for finance
may, at any time before the end of the financial year, introduce into the House
of Assembly a Supplementary Appropriation Bill containing under appropriate
heads, the aggregate sums so voted, and shall, as soon as possible after the
end of each financial year, introduce into the House of Assembly a final
Appropriation bill containing any such sums which have not yet been included in
any Appropriation bill.
6. That part of any estimate of expenditure laid before the House of Assembly
which shows statutory expenditure shall not be voted on by the House, and such
expenditure shall, without further authority of Parliament, be paid out of the
Consolidated Fund.
7. For the purposes of this section and section 108 -
a. "Financial year" means any period of twelve months beginning on 1st April in
any year or such other date as Parliament may prescribe; and
b. "statutory expenditure" means expenditure charged on the Consolidated Fund
or on the general revenues and assets of Barbados by any provision of this
Constitution or of any other law for the time being in force in Barbados.
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