116. Where in any financial year any expenditure has been authorised
by a warrant issued by the President under paragraph (d) of clause (2)
Article 115, the Minister responsible for finance shall cause a
supplementary estimate relating to that expenditure to be laid before the
National Assembly for its approval before the expiration of a period of
four months from the issue of the warrant or, if the National Assembly is
not sitting at the expiration of that period, at the first sitting of the
National Assembly thereafter.
Supplementary
estimates in respect
of expenditure
authorised by
warrant
117. (1) The Minister responsible for finance shall cause to be prepared Appropriation Acts
and shall lay before the National Assembly within three months after the and Supplementary
Appropriation Acts
commencement of each financial year estimates of the revenues and
expenditure of the Republic for that financial year.
(2) When the estimates of the expenditure have been approved by the
National Assembly, the heads of the estimates together with the amount
approved in respect of each shall be included in a Bill to be known as an
Appropriation Bill which shall be introduced in the National Assembly
to provide for the payment of those amounts for the purposes specified
out of the general revenues of the Republic.
(3) Nothing in this Article shall be construed as requiring the approval
of the National Assembly for that part of any estimates which relate to,
or as requiring the inclusion in an Appropriation Bill of provisions
authorising the expenditure of, sums which are charged on the general
revenues of the Republic by this Constitution or any other law.
(4) Where any supplementary expenditure has been authorised in
respect of any financial year for any purpose and(a)
an amount has not been appropriated for that purpose under any
head of expenditure by the Appropriation Act for that financial
year; or
(b)
the amount of the supplementary expenditure is such that the
total amount expended for the purposes of the head of
expenditure in which expenditure for that purpose was included
is in excess of the amount so appropriated under that head, the
Minister responsible for finance shall introduce in the National
Assembly not later than fifteen months after the end of that