6. Money allocated to the “Development Activities” Programme may be transferred to any other Programme under any other Head

Official English translation. Where it differs from the Sinhala or Tamil text, the Act itself says which text prevails.

(1)

Any money allocated to Recurrent Expenditure or Capital Expenditure under the “Development Activities”

Programme appearing under the Head “Department of

National Budget” specified in the First Schedule, may be transferred subject to guidelines stipulated in printed Budget

Estimates approved by Parliament for the relevant year, to any other Programme under any other Head in that Schedule, by order of the Secretary to the Treasury or by Order either of a Deputy Secretary to the Treasury or the Director General of the National Budget Department, who may be authorized in that behalf by the Secretary to the Treasury. The money so transferred shall be deemed to be a supplementary allocation made to the particular Ministry, and a report containing the amount of money so transferred and the reasons for the transfer, shall be submitted to Parliament within two months of the date of the said transfer.

(2)

Details of all transfers made under subsection (1), including the reasons for such transfers, shall be incorporated in the reports relating to the Government’s fiscal performance, which are required to be tabled in Parliament under the Fiscal

Management (Responsibility) Act, No.3 of 2003.

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