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9 of 2005. s. 20. (3) The appropriate Commission shall not concur under
subsection (1) or subsection (2) of this section in action taken on the ground that
any person who holds or has held the office of a judge of the Court of Appeal or of
the High Court or the Auditor-General or Director of Prosecutions has been guilty of
misbehaviour unless he or she has been removed from office by reason of such
misbehaviour.
(4) In this section "the appropriate Commission" means(a)
in the case of benefits for which any person may be eligible in
respect of the service in the public service of a person who, immediately before he
or she ceased to be a public officer, was subject to the disciplinary control of the
Judicial Service Commission or that have been granted in respect of such service,
the Judicial Service Commission;
(b)
in any other case, the Public Service Commission.
(5) In this section "pensions benefits" means any pensions, compensation,
gratuities or other like allowances for persons in respect of their service as
public officers (including service as public officers of the former Protectorate of
Bechuanaland) or for the widows, children, dependants or personal representatives of
such persons in respect of such service.
CHAPTER VIII
Finance (ss 117-124)
[Ch0000s117] 117.
Consolidated Fund
All revenues or other moneys raised or received for the purposes of the
Government of Botswana (not being revenues or other moneys that are payable by or
under any law into some other fund established for a specific purpose or that may by
or under any law be retained by the department of Government that received them for
the purposes of defraying the expenses of that department) shall be paid into and
form one Consolidated Fund.
[Ch0000s118] 118.
Withdrawals from Consolidated Fund or other public funds
(1) No moneys shall be withdrawn from the Consolidated Fund except(a)
to meet expenditure that is charged upon the Fund by this
Constitution or by any Act of Parliament;
(b)
where the issue of those moneys has been authorized by an
Appropriation Act, by a supplementary estimate approved by resolution of the
National Assembly or by a law enacted in pursuance of section 120 of this
Constitution.
(2) No moneys shall be withdrawn from any public fund of Botswana other than
the Consolidated Fund unless the issue of those moneys has been authorized by or
under a law.
(3) No moneys shall be withdrawn from the Consolidated Fund except in the
manner prescribed by Parliament.
(4) The deposit of any moneys forming part of the Consolidated Fund with a
bank or with the Crown Agents for Overseas Governments and Administrations or the
investment of any such moneys in securities in which, under the law for the time
being in force in Botswana, trustees are authorized to invest, or the making of
advances to such extent and in such circumstances as may be prescribed by
Parliament, shall not be regarded as a withdrawal of those moneys from the Fund for
the purposes of this section.
[Ch0000s119] 119.
Authorization of expenditure
(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 30 days
after the commencement of each financial year, estimates of the revenues and
expenditure of Botswana for that year.
9 of 2005, s. 21. (2) The organisations of expenditure contained in the
estimates for a financial year (other than expenditure charged upon the Consolidated
Fund by this Constitution or any other law) shall be included in a Bill to be known
as an Appropriation Bill which shall be introduced into the Assembly to provide for
the issue from the Consolidated Fund of the sums necessary to meet that expenditure
and the appropriation of those sums for the purposes specified in the said Bill.
9 of 2005, s. 21. (3) If in any financial year it is found(a)
that the amount appropriated by the Appropriation Act for the
purposes included in any organisation of expenditure is insufficient or that a need
has arisen for expenditure for a purpose for which no amount has been appropriated
by the Appropriation Act; or
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