Section 5, The Appropriation Act, 1998 [Margin: Short title.]

The Accountant-General is hereby authorised and required to pay out of the Consolidated Fund for the several services specified in the Schedule, such sums as may be specified in the Warrant or Order of the Minister of Finance, Development and Economic Planning issued from time to time up to the total sum of one hundred and sixty-two billion, four hundred and twenty million, seven hundred and eighty-two thousand, seventy-two leones which shall come in course of payment during the fiscal year. [Margin: Excess of expenditure.]