Act of Parliament · As enacted
Appropriation Act 2002
Official English translation. Where it differs from the Sinhala or Tamil text, the Act itself says which text prevails.
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s 1Short title
This Act may be cited as the Appropriation
Act, No. 31 of 2002.
Without prejudice to any other law authorising any expenditure, the expenditure of the Government which it is estimated will be rupees three hundred and fifty four thousand seventy five million three hundred and sixty one thousand for the service of the period beginning on January 1, 2003, and ending on December 31, 2003, in this Act referred to as the “financial year 2003”, shall be met—
from payments which are hereby authorised to be made out of the Consolidated Fund or any other fund or moneys of, or at the disposal of, the Government ;
and
from the proceeds of loans which are hereby authorised to be raised, whether in or outside Sri Lanka, for and on behalf of the Government, so however, that the aggregate of such proceeds does not exceed rupees three hundred and sixteen thousand million.
The sum of rupees three hundred and fifty four thousand seventy five million three hundred and sixty one thousand referred to in subsection (1) may be expended as specified in the First Schedule to this Act.
The provisions of subsection (1) shall have effect without prejudice to the provisions of any other written law authorising the raising of loans for and on behalf of the
Government.
The receipts of the Government during the financial year, 2003, from each activity specified in column I of the
Second Schedule to this Act shall be credited to the account of such activity, but the aggregate of receipts so credited shall be not less than the minimum limit specified in the corresponding entry in column III of that Schedule. The net surplus, if any, of such activity, shall be paid to the
Consolidated Fund before the expiry of six months after the close of the financial year, 2003.
For the purpose of determining the net surplus under subsection (1), the following charges shall be set off against the revenue of each activity :—
the working, establishment and other expenses of the activity whether paid or accrued, properly chargeable to the revenue of the activity ;
and
provision to cover the depreciation of the movable and immovable property of the activity.
The expenditure incurred by the Government, during the financial year, 2003, on each activity specified in column I of the Second Schedule to this Act, shall be paid out of the receipts of the Government from such activity during that financial year but such expenditure shall not exceed the maximum limit specified in the corresponding entry in column II of that Schedule.
The debit balance, outstanding at the end of the financial year, 2003, of any activity specified in column I of the Second Schedule to this Act, shall not exceed the maximum limit specified in the corresponding entry in column
IV of that Schedule and the total liabilities of that activity at the end of that financial year shall not exceed the maximum limit specified in the corresponding entry in column V of that
Schedule.
s 4
Payment from the Consolidated Fund and or any other fund or moneys of, or at the disposal of, the Government, of advances for expenditure, on the activities referred to in section 3 during the financial year, 2003
Whenever, at any time during the financial year, 2003, the receipts of the Government from any activity specified in column I of the Second Schedule to this Act are insufficient to meet the expenditure incurred by the Government on such activity, the Minister may, from time to time, by Order direct that such sums as he may deem necessary to meet such expenditure shall be payable, by way of advances, out of the
Consolidated Fund or any other fund or moneys of, or at the disposal of, the Government, so however, that the aggregate of the sums so advanced shall not exceed the maximum limit of expenditure specified in the corresponding entry in column II of that Schedule. Any sum so advanced in respect of such activity shall be refunded to the
Consolidated Fund in such manner as the Minister may by
Order direct.
s 5
Power to transfer unexpended moneys allocated to Recurrent Expenditure to another allocation within the same Programme or to another Programme under the same Head of expenditure
Any moneys which, by virtue of the First Schedule to this Act, have been allocated to Recurrent Expenditure under any Programme appearing under any Head specified in that
Schedule, but have not been expended or are not likely to be expended, may be transferred to the allocation of Capital
Expenditure within that Programme, or to the allocation of
Recurrent Expenditure with in that Programme, or to the allocation of Recurrent Expenditure or Capital Expenditure under any other Programme within that Head by order of the Secretary to the Treasury or any other officer authorised by him.
No moneys allocated to Capital Expenditure under any
Programme appearing under any Head specified in the First
Schedule to this Act shall be transferred out of that Programme or to any allocation of Recurrent Expenditure of that Programme.
s 6Power of Minister to limit expenditure previously authorised
Where the Minister is satisfied—
that receipts from taxes and other sources will be less than the amounts anticipated to finance authorised expenditure ; or
that amounts originally appropriated for a particular purpose or purposes are no longer required, he may, with the approval of the Government, withdraw in whole or in part, any amounts previously released for expenditure under the authority of a warrant issued by him from the Consolidated Fund or from any other fund or moneys of, or at the disposal of, the Government to meet any authorised expenditure.
The Minister with the approval of the Government may, on or before May 31, 2004, by Order, vary or alter—
any of the maximum limits specified in column II, column IV and column V ;
the minimum limits specified in column III, of the Second Schedule to this Act.
No Order made under subsection (1) shall have effect unless it has been approved by Parliament, by resolution.
Any Order made under subsection (1) shall, if so expressed therein, be deemed to have had effect from such date prior to the date of making such Order as may be specified therein.
s 8Power of Parliament to amend the Second Schedule to this Act
Parliament may, by resolution, amend the Second
Schedule to this Act, by adding to the appropriate columns of that Schedule, any activity and providing for—
all or any of the maximum limits relating to such activity;
the minimum limit relating to such activity.
s 9Sinhala text to prevail in case of inconsistency
In the event of any inconsistency between the Sinhala and Tamil texts of this Act, the Sinhala text shall prevail.