Constitution St-Kitts-Nevis - ICRC

1983 Saint Kitts and Nevis Constitution
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(4) There shall be such provision as may be made by Parliament prescribing the manner in which
withdrawals may be made from the Consolidated Fund or any other public fund of the Government.
(5) The investment of moneys forming part of the Consolidated Fund shall be made in such manner
as may be prescribed by or under a law enacted by Parliament.
(6) Notwithstanding subsection (1), provision may be made by or under a law enacted by Parliament
authorizing withdrawals to be made from the Consolidated Fund, in such circumstance and to such
entente as may be prescribed by or unbar a law enacted by Parliament, for the purpose of making
repayable advances.
Authorization of expenditure from Consolidated Fund by the appropriation law.
71.- (1) The Minister for the time being responsible for finance shall cause to be prepared and laid
before the National Assembly before, or not later than sixty days after, the commencement of each
financial year estimates of the revenues and expenditure of the Government for that financial year.
(2) When the estimates of expenditure (other than expenditure charged upon the Consolidated Fund
by this Constitution or by any law enacted by Parliament) have been approved by the National
Assembly, a bill known as an appropriation bill, shall be introduced in the Assembly providing for
the issue from the Consolidated Fund of the sums, under separate votes for the several services
required, to the purposes specified therein.
(3) If in respect of any financial year it is founda)
that the amount appropriated by the appropriation law to any purpose is insufficient or that a need
has arisen for expenditure for a purpose to which no amount has been appropriated by that law; or
b) that any moneys have been expended for any purpose in excess of the amount appropriated to that
purpose by the appropriation law or for a purpose to which no amount has been appropriated by that
law, a supplementary estimate showing the sums required or spent shall be laid before the National
Assembly and, when the supplementary appropriation shall be introduced in the Assembly providing
for the issue of such sums from the Consolidated Fund and appropriating them to the purposes
specified therein.
Authorization of expenditure in advance of appropriation.
72.- There shall be such provisions as may be made by Parliament under which, if the appropriation
law in respect of any financial year has not come into operation by the beginning of that financial
year, the Minister for the time being responsible for finance may authorize the withdrawal of moneys
from the Consolidated Fund for the Purpose of meeting expenditure necessary to carry on the
services of the Government until the expiration of four months from the beginning of that financial
year or the coming into operation of the law, whichever is the earlier.
Warrants for unforeseen expenditure.
73.- (1) If it appears to the Minister for the time being responsible for finance thata)
there is an urgent need to incur expenditure;
b) no provision exist for that expenditure in any appropriation law or other law; and
c) it would not be in the public interest to delay the authorization of that expenditure until such time
as a supplementary estimate can be laid before the National Assembly,
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