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Short title.
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1. This Act may be cited as the Appropriation Act , No.15 of 1983.
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Appropriation for financial year 1983.
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(1) Without prejudice to any other law authorizing any expenditure, the expenditure of the Government, which it is estimated will be rupees thirty-eight thousand five hundred and seventy-nine million eight hundred and forty-one thousand for the service of the period beginning on January 1,1983, and ending on December 31, 1983, in this Act referred to as the “Financial year 1983”, shall be met-
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“(a) from payments which are hereby authorized to be made out of the Consolidated Fund or any other fund or moneys of, or at the disposal of, the Government; and
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“(b) from the proceeds of loans which are hereby authorized 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 twenty-five thousand three hundred and seventy-eight million.
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The sum of rupees thirty-eight thousand five hundred and seventy-nine million eight hundred and forty-one thousand herein before referred to may be expended as specified in the First Schedule to this Act
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(2) The provisions of subsection(1) of this section shall have effect without prejudice to the provisions of any other written law authorizing the raising of loans for and behalf of the Government.
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Financial provision in respect of certain activities of the Government for the financial year 1983.
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(1) The receipts of the Government during the financial year 1983, from each activity specified in column 1 of the
Second Schedule to this Act shall be credited, to the account of such activity, and 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, after setting off against the revenue of such activity of the following charges namely:-
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” (a) the working, establishment and other expenses of the activity whether paid or accrued properly chargeable to the revenue of the activity ; and
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(b) provision to cover the depreciation of the movable and immovable property of the activity,
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be paid to the Consolidated Fund before the expiry of six months after the close of the financial year 1983.
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(2) The expenditure incurred by the Government, during the financial year 1983, 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.
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(3) The debit balance, outstanding at the end of the financial year 1983, 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.
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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 1983.
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4. Whenever, at any time during the financial year 1983, 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 does not exceed the maximum limit of expenditure specified in the corresponding entry in column II of that Schedule. Any sums 80 advanced in respect of such activity shall be refunded to the Consolidated Fund in such manner as the Minister may by Order direct.
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Power to transfer unexpended moneys allocated to recurrent expenditure to another allocation within the same Programme or to another Programme under the same the same Head of expenditure.
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(1) Any moneys which, by virtue of the provisions 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 or Capital Expenditure under any other Programme within that Head by order of the Secretary to the Treasury or any other officer authorized by him.
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(2) No moneys allocated to Capital Expenditure under any Programme appearing under any Held specified in the First Schedule to this Act shall be transferred out of that allocation.
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Power of Minister to limit expenditure previously authorized.
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6. Where the Minister is satisfied –
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(1) that receipts from taxes and other sources will he less than the amounts anticipated to finance authorized expenditure; or
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(2) that amounts originally appropriated for a particular purpose or purposes are no longer required,
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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.
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Power Minister to vary the maximum and minimum limits specified in the Second schedule to this Act.
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7. The Minister with the approval of the Government, may, on or before May 31, 1984, by Order vary or alter any of the minimum limits specified in column II, column IV and column V or the minimum limits specified in column III of the Second Schedule to this Act. Any such Order shall, if so expressed therein, be deemed to have had effect from such date prior to the date of making of such Order as may be specified therein.
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Power of Parliament to amend the second schedule to this Act.
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8. Parliament may, by resolution, amend the Second Schedule to this Act, by adding to the appropriate columns of that Schedule, any activity and all or any of the maximum limit or the minimum limit relating to such activity.
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Certain expenditure and advances to be deemed to have been incurred and made ,respectively, under the authority of this act and certain moneys to be deemed to be included in the First Schedule to this Act.
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9. Notwithstanding anything in the resolution passed by Parliament on the second day of November, 1982, making financial provision for the service of the period commencing on January 1, 1983, and ending on the day immediately prior
to the date of commencement of this Act.
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(a) any sums which have been expended during that period from money allocated by that resolution to any Programme appearing under any Head specified in the First Schedule to that resolution shall be deemed, for all purposes, not to have been expended under the authority of that resolution but to have been expended under the authority of this Act ;
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(b) any moneys so allocated which have not been expended on the day immediately prior to the date of commencement of this Act shall be deemed, for all purposes, to be included in the moneys allocated to the corresponding Programme appearing under the corresponding Head under this Act; and
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(c) any sums paid, by way of advances, out of the consolidated Fund, during the period commencing on January 1, 1983, and ending on the day immediately prior to the date of commencement of this Act, in respect of the services specified in the Second Schedule to that resolution shall be deemed, for all purposes, not to have been so advanced under the authority of that resolution but to have been so advanced under the authority of
this Act.
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