Constitution of Zambia (Amendment)
[No. 2 of 2016 85
203. (1) Where estimates of revenue and expenditure have
been approved by the National Assembly in accordance with Article
202, the Minister responsible for finance shall lay, before the National
Assembly for enactment, an Appropriation Bill in respect of the
approved estimates of expenditure.
(2) The Minister responsible for finance shall, where the
amount appropriated in an Appropriation Act for a financial year is
insufficient to meet expenditure in that financial year, lay before
the National Assembly for approval, in accordance with Article
202 (5), a supplementary estimate of expenditure.
(3) Where a supplementary estimate of expenditure has been
approved by the National Assembly, the Minister responsible for
finance shall lay, before the National Assembly for enactment, a
Supplementary Appropriation Bill in respect of the approved
supplementary estimate of expenditure.
(4) Where there is an urgent need to incur expenditure for a
purpose that has not been appropriated under the Appropriation
Act for that financial year and it would not be in the public interest
to delay the appropriation of the expenditure until a supplementary
estimate is approved by the National Assembly, in accordance with
clauses (2) and (3), the President may, subject to Article 204, issue
a warrant authorising the expenditure and withdrawal from the
Consolidated Fund.
(5) The Minister responsible for finance shall present the warrant
referred to in clause (4) to the relevant parliamentary committee
for approval.
(6) The parliamentary committee shall consider the warrant
within forty-eight hours of its presentation by the Minister
responsible for finance.
(7) Where expenditure is incurred in accordance with clause
(4), the Minister responsible for finance shall, in that financial year,
lay an Excess Expenditure Appropriation Bill before the National
Assembly for enactment.
(8) Where it is not practicable to lay an Excess Expenditure
Appropriation Bill before the National Assembly, in accordance
with clause (7), the Minister responsible for finance shall lay the
Excess Expenditure Appropriation Bill before the National Assembly
during the first sitting of the National Assembly after the end of the
preceding financial year.
Appropriation
Act,
Supplementary
Appropriation
Act and
Excess
Expenditure
Appropriation
Act