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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:

Provided that, implementing this section, Ministries,

Government Departments and Public Institutions shall not make requests for supplementary allocations in financial year 2022 to implement new programmes and Projects.

(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 provisions of the Fiscal Management

(Responsibility) Act, No.3 of 2003.

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