Preamble
A 79
SIGNED this *10th* day of *November, 1975*
SIAKA STEVENS
*President.*
LS
No. 19 1975
Sierra Leone
The 1974/75 Supplementary Appropriation Act, 1975 [Margin: Short title.]
Being an Act to make Supplementary Provision for the Service of Sierra Leone for the year 1974/75
[*1st January, 1974.*] [Margin: Date of commencement.]
WHEREAS by the 1974/75 Appropriation Act, 1974 a sum not exceeding Sixty-seven million, three hundred and sixty-two thousand, three hundred and eight leones was provided for the service of Sierra Leone for the year nineteen hundred and seventy-four/seventy-five: [Margin: Act No. 7 of 1974.]
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[Margin: [illegible]2,765,332]
AND WHEREAS it has become necessary to provide for the expenditure from the Consolidated Revenue Fund a further sum of twenty-two million, seven hundred and sixty-five thousand, three hundred and thirty-two leones in excess of the provision in the above cited Act for the several services set forth in the First and Second Schedules hereto:
[Margin: No. 2 of [illegible]1.]
AND WHEREAS section 14 of the Finance (Control and Management) Act, 1961 provides that any proposal for such expenditure be submitted to a vote of Parliament by means of a Supplementary Appropriation Bill which shall contain that expenditure under appropriate Heads:
[Margin: No. 2 of [illegible]1.]
AND WHEREAS by virtue of the powers vested in him by Rule 2 of Part II of the Second Schedule to the Finance (Control and Management) Act, 1961, the Minister of Finance has by Warrant authorised the issue from the Contingencies Fund of the sum totalling ninety-one thousand, four hundred and fifty leones under the various Heads set out in the Second Schedule hereto which expenditure could not without serious injury to the public interest have been postponed until provision could be made by a Supplementary Appropriation Act:
[Margin: [illegible]No. 2 of [illegible]1.]
AND WHEREAS Rule 5 of Part II of the Second Schedule to the Finance (Control and Management) Act, 1961 provides that all withdrawals from the Contingencies Fund shall be reported to Parliament at its next ensuing sitting so that that fund shall be restored to the amount appropriated under section 18 of the said Act by inclusion of the appropriations thereto in a Supplementary Appropriation Act:
BE IT ENACTED by the President and Members of Parliament in this present Parliament assembled, as follows:—
[Margin: [illegible]mmence- [illegible]nt.]
**1.** This Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on the 1st day of January, 1974.
[Margin: [illegible]2,765,332 [illegible]nted for [illegible]4/75.]
**2.** The sum of twenty-two million, seven hundred and sixty-five thousand, three hundred and thirty-two leones shall be and is hereby granted to His Excellency the President, for and during the year nineteen hundred and seventy-four to seventy-five to be applied for the several services set forth in the First and Second Schedules.
[Margin: [illegible]2,765,332.]
**3.** The said sum of twenty-two million, seven hundred and sixty-five thousand, three hundred and thirty-two leones shall be and is hereby declared to be charged upon and made payable from and out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the year nineteen hundred and seventy-four to seventy-five and the payment thereof shall be taken to begin immediately after the commencement of this Act:
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Provided that in the case of the sums authorised by the Minister of Finance to be issued from the Contingencies Fund the payment thereof shall be taken to have begun on the date of the Warrant authorising such payment.
[Margin: Contingencies Fund Payments from date of Warrant.]