Section 5, The Appropriation Act, 2000 [Margin: Short title.]

The amount from time to time paid for and in respect of the expenditure authorised in section 4 shall not exceed in the gross the sum of two hundred and sixty-three billion, seven hundred and ninety-one million leones from the first day of January, Two Thousand inclusive and any balances remaining unissued on the thirty-first day of December, Two Thousand shall lapse and not be available for making any payment in the following year. No. 9 *Appropriation Act* 2000 3