Constitution St-Kitts-Nevis - ICRC

1983 Saint Kitts and Nevis Constitution
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the members may, by special warrant, authorise the issue from the Consolidated Fund of the moneys
required to meet the expenditure:
Provided that the total sum for the time being authorised to be issued under this subsection, for
which no provisions has been made by an appropriation law, shall not exceed such amounts as may
be prescribed by the Legislature.
(2) Where in any financial year the expenditure has been authorised by special warrant under
subsection (1) the member of the Administration for the time being responsible for finance shall
cause a supplementary estimate relating to that expenditure to be laid before the Assembly at the first
sitting of the Assembly occurring after the expiration of the fourteen days from the date of the
warrant and a supplementaty appropriation bill shall be introduced in the Assembly providing for the
issue of the sums authorised to be spent and appropriating them to the purposes specified therein.
Public debt.
75.--(1) All debt charges for which the Administration is liable shall be a charge on the Consolidated
Fund.
(2) For the purposes of this section debt charges include interest, sinking fund charges, the
repayment or amortization of debt and all expenditure in connection with the raising of loans on the
security of the Consolidated Fund and the service and redemption of the debt created thereby.
Audit of public accounts etc.
76.--(2) The Director of Audit shall-
(a) satisfy himself that all moneys that have been appropriated by the Legislature and disbursed have
been applied to the purposes to which they were so appropriated and that the expenditure shall
conform to the authority that governs it and
(b) at least once in every year audit and report on the public accounts of the Administration, the
accounts of all officers and authorities of the Administration and the accounts of the Clerk of the
Assembly.
(3) The Director of Audit and any officer authorised by him shall have access to all books, records,
returns, reports and other documents that in his opinion relate to any of the accounts referred to in
subsection (2).
(4) The Director of Audit shall submit every report made by him in pursuance of subsection (2) to
the member of the Administration for the time being responsible for finance who shall, not later than
seven days after the Assembly first meets after he has received the report, lay before the Assembly.
(5) If the member of the Administration fails to lay a report before the Assembly in accordance with
subsection (4) the Director of Audit shall transmit copies of that report to the president of the
Assembly who shall, as soon as practicable, present them to the Assembly.
(6) The Director of Audit shall exercise such other functions in relation to the accounts of the
Administration or the accounts of other authorities or bodies established by law for public purposes
as may be prescribed by or under any law enacted by the Legislature.
(7) In the exercise of his functions under subsections (2), (3), (4) and (5), the Director of Audit shall
not be subject to the direction or control of any other person or authority.
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