Appropriation Act 2020

This Act may be cited as the Appropriation Act,

No. 6 of 2020.

Without prejudice to anything in any other written law authorizing any expenditure and subject to the provisions of subsection (4) of this section, the expenditure of the Government which is estimated to be rupees two thousand seven hundred eighteen billion twenty two million for the service of the period beginning on January 1, 2020 and ending on December 31, 2020 (in this Act referred to as the “financial year 2020”), shall be met –

The sum of rupees two thousand seven hundred eighteen billion twenty two million 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, authorizing the raising of loans for and on behalf of the

The estimated expenditure of the Government authorized by laws to be charged on the Consolidated Fund, shall be rupees two thousand billion one hundred thirty three million for the service of the period beginning on January 1,

The receipts of the Government during the financial year 2020, from each activity specified in Column

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 expenditure incurred by the Government during the financial year 2020 on each activity specified in

The debit balance outstanding at the end of the financial year 2020 of any activity specified in Column I of the Third 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.

Payment from the Consolidated Fund 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 2020

Whenever at any time during the financial year 2020, the receipts of the Government from any activity specified in Column I of the Third 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.

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 provisions of the First Schedule to this Act, have been allocated to

No moneys allocated to Capital Expenditure under any Programme appearing under any Head specified in the

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

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.

Where the Minister is satisfied-

that receipts from taxes and other sources will be less than the amounts anticipated to finance authorized 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 authorized expenditure and the details of all such withdrawals shall be incorporated in the Final Budget Position Report which is required to be tabled in Parliament under section 13 of the Fiscal Management (Responsibility) Act, No. 3 of 2003.

The Minister with the approval of the

No Order made under subsection (1) shall have effect, unless it has been approved by Parliament by

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.

Parliament may by Resolution amend the Third

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.

Certain expenditure and advances made under Resolutions passed under Article 150(2) of the Constitution deemed to be included in the First Schedule, Second Schedule and Third Schedule to this Act

Notwithstanding anything contained in the

Resolution passed by Parliament under paragraph (2) of

Article 150 of the Constitution on October 23, 2019, making financial provision for expenditure for the period commencing on January 1, 2020 and ending on April 30,

2020 and the Resolution passed by Parliament under paragraph (2) of Article 150 of the Constitution on August 28, 2020, making financial provisions for expenditure for the period commencing on September 1, 2020 and ending on December 31, 2020 :-

all such sums of money which have been expended during the respective periods, out of the moneys allocated by such Resolutions to any Programme appearing under any Head specified in the First

all such sums of money which have been expended during the respective periods, out of the moneys allocated by such Resolutions to any Programme appearing under any Head specified in the Second

any such sums paid by way of advances out of the

Notwithstanding anything contained in the

Resolutions passed by Parliament under paragraph (2) of

Article 150 of the Constitution on October 23, 2019 and

August 28, 2020 referred to in section 10, making provisions for loans to be raised in terms of relevant laws whether in or outside Sri Lanka, for and on behalf of the Government, proceeds of loans, which have been raised during the respective periods out of the moneys appearing in such

Resolutions, shall be deemed for all purposes to have been raised under section 2(1)(b) of this Act.

All such sums of money authorized as financial provisions for public services by the President under paragraph (3) of Article 150 of the Constitution, for a period of three months commencing on March 6, 2020 and for a period of three months commencing on June 1, 2020, and-

expended during the respective periods, out of the moneys allocated by such authorizations included as Annexures to the Budget Estimates for the relevant year tabled in Parliament, to any

paid by way of advances out of the Consolidated

In the event of any inconsistency between the

Sinhala and Tamil texts of this Act, the Sinhala text shall prevail.