Appropriation Act 2025 · As enacted
6. Money allocated to the “De-velopment Activities” Programme may be
Official English translation. Where it differs from the Sinhala or Tamil text, the Act itself says which text prevails.
Official translationFrom Department of Government Printing, unchanged
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 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.
transferred to any other Programme under any other Head
Details of all transfers made under subsection (1)
including the reasons for such transfers shall be incorporated in the final budget position report relating to the Government's annual fiscal performance which is required to be tabled in Parliament under the section 51 of the Public Financial
Management Act, No. 44 of 2024.