Constitution St-Kitts-Nevis - ICRC

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1983 Saint Kitts and Nevis Constitution Page 100 of 106 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. PART 4 http://www.georgetown.edu/pdba/Constitutions/Kitts/kitts83.html 27.09.2005
1983 Saint Kitts and Nevis Constitution Page 101 of 106 Interpretation In this schedule, unless the context otherwise requires- "the Administration" means the Nevis Island Administration; "the Assembly" means the Nevis Island Assembly; "the Consolidated Fund" means the Nevis Island Consolidated Fund; "Leader of the Opposition" means the Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly; "the Legislature" means the Nevis Island Legislature; SCHEDULE 2 TO THE ORDER TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS Arrangement of paragraphs 1. Discharge of Governor-General's functions. 2. Existing laws. 3. Parliament. 4. Ministers and Parliamentary Secretaries. 5. Office of Attorney-General. 6. Existing public officers. 7. Supreme Court Order. 8. Appeals Order. 9. Protection from inhuman treatment. 10. Protection from deprivation of property. 11. Commonwealth citizen. 12. Nevis Island Assembly and Administration. 13. Interpretation. Discharge of Governor-General's functions. 1. Until such time as a person has assumed office as Governor-General having been appointed as such in accordance with section 21 of the Constitution, the person who immediately before 19th September 1983 held office as Governor of Saint Christopher and Nevis (or, if there is no such person, the person who was then acting as Governor) shall discharge the functions of the office of Governor-General. Existing laws. 2.--(1) The existing laws shall, as from 19th September 1983, be construed with such modifications, adaptations, qualifications and exceptions as may be necessary to bring them into conformity with the Constitution and the Supreme Court Order. (2) Any existing law enacted by any legislature with power to make laws at any time before 19th September 1983 shall have effect as from that date as if it were a law enacted by Parliament: Provided that any such law, to the extent that it relates to a specified matter, shall have effect in the island of Nevis as from that date as if it were a law enacted by the Nevis Island Legislature. http://www.georgetown.edu/pdba/Constitutions/Kitts/kitts83.html 27.09.2005
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