and Change of Financial Year Act, 1966 Short title.

Assented to in Her Majesty's name this 4th day of May, 1966. LS No. 10 uNITY NUSTICEREEDOMS H. J. L. BOSTON, Governor-General. Sierra Leone The 1965 /66 Supplementary Appropriation (No. 2) and Change of Financial Year Act, 1966 Short title. Being an Act to provide for the extension of the period for which Act No. 8 of. 1965. provision for the Service of Sierra Leone was made by the 1965-66 Appropriation Act, 1965, and the 1965-66 Supplementary Appropria- Act No. 2 of tion Act, 1966, and to make Supplementary provision for the Service of SierTa Leone for the extended period and to make certain other legislative amendments consequential on the establishment of a new Financial Year running from 1st July to 30th June [31st March, 1966.] WHEREAS it has been the practice to make provision for the Service of Sierra Leone for annual periods ending on the 3lst dayof March in each year: A 45 1966. Date of Commencement. A 46 1965, No. 10 1966. AND WIHEREAS 0n pursuance of such practice provision has been Act No. 8 of made by the 1965-66 Appropriation Act, 1965 (hercinafter referred to as thc principal Act) and by the 1965 66 Supplementary Appro Act No, 2 of priation Act, 1966 (hercinafter referred to as the Supplementary Act) for the service of the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1966: Commence ment. Extension of financial period, 1965/66 Supplementary Appropriation (No. 2) Le7,593,621 charged on the rcvenuc for 1965-66 financial period. AND WHEREAS it is intended that, in future, provision for the Service of Sierra Leonc should be made for annual periods ending on the 30th day of Junc cach ycar: AND WHEREAS 0in pursuance of this intention it is expedient to cxtend the period for which provision is made by the principal Act and the Supplenentary Act to thc 30th day of June, 1966, and to make further supplementary provision for such extended period: Accountant Gencral's authority for pay ment. Be rT TIEREFORE ENACTED by thc Quccn's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advicc and conscnt of the House of Representatives in this prescnt Parliament asscmbled, and by the authority of the Samc as follows:

March, 1966.

Notwithstanding any limitations therein contained theprovisions of the principal Act and of the Supplementary Act shall be construcd as if the sumns appropriated thercby for the service of the ycar cnding on the 31st March, 1966, had been appropriated for thc service of the period commencing on the Ist day of April, 1965, and ending on thc 30th day of June, 1966, (hereinafter referred to as the 1965-66 financial period) and any balances of the sums appropriatcd under those Acts remaining unissued at the end of

Le7,593,621 authorised by the principal Act and by the Supplementary Act agranted for further sum of seven million, five hundred and nincty-three thousand,1965-66. six hundred and twenty-one leones shall be and is hereby granted to Her Majesty the Qucen, Her Heirs and Successors for and during the 1965-66financial period and the same shall be applied and expended in the manner herein described and for the several services set forth in the First and Sccond Schedules. March ninctcen hundred and sixty-six shall not lapse on that date but shall continuc to be available for making payments until the 30th day of Junc in that year.

The said sum of seven million, five hundred and ninetythree thousand, six hundred and twenty-one leones shall be and is hereby declared to be charged upon and made payable from andout of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the 1965-66 financial period and the payment thereof shall be taken to begin and com mence on and immediately after the first day of April, nineteen hundred and sixty-six.

The Accountant-General is hereby authorised and requiredfrom time to time, upon the Warrant or Order of the Minister of Financc, to pay out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the several services specificd in the First and Second Schedules, the sum No. 10 of seven million, five hundred and ninety-three thousand, six hundred and twenty-one leones which will come in course of pay ment during the remainder of the 1965-66 financial period.

The amount from time to time paid for and in respect of Excess ofthe expenditure authorised in section 3 shall not exceed in the gross Expenditure. the sum of seven million, five hundred and ninety-three thousand, six hundred and twenty-one leones and any balances remaining unissued at the end of the 1965 66 financial period shall lapse and shall not be available for making payments thereafter.

1961 is hereby amnended by the substitution in the penultimate line of section of subsection (l)thereof of the word "July" for the word April""o t No. of Item A

Subsection (1) of section 3 of the Interpretation Act, 1965,. Amendmentis hereby amended by the substitution for the definition of financial of section 3 year" therein contained of the folowing new definition financial year" means any period of twelve months ending on the 30th June and in the case of the financial year ending on the 30th of June, 1966 shall be construed to refer to the period of fifteen months ending on that date;". B1 C 1 DI 1965/66 Supplenentary ppropriation (No. 2) 1966 E1 Governor-General Audit Public Service Commission Head of Expenditure

Prime Minister's Office Cabinet Secretariat Establishment Secretary's Office Judicial Department Police Law Oficers' Department Legislature ment Administrator and Registrar-General's Depart Ministry of the Interior Local Governmnent Grants Ministry of External Affairs Ministry of Defence Military Ministry of Finance Customs and Excise Income Tax Pensions, Retiring Allowances and Gratuit 'es Public Debt Charges No. 2 of 1961. of Act No. 7 of 1965. Sunn Voted Le 6,468 * 5,772* 19,171* 41,558 4,798 87,477 A 47 26,091* 20,354 357,971 57,074 6,471 126,225 220,390 129,509 5,478 281,626 57,453 40,999 15,000 47,900* A 48 F 1 G1 H 1 J 1 K1 LI M1 N1 O 1 P 1 Q 1 No. 10 1965/66 Supplementary Approprition (No. 2) Miscellaneous Service Central Statistics Office Ministry of Transport &Communications Civil Aviation MeteorologyRoad Transport Department Posts and Telecommunications Railway Ministry of Education Education Subsidies Ministry of Social Welfare Prisons Ministryof Health Ministry of Lands, Mines and Labour Geological Survey Labour Mines Surveys and Lands Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources Natural Resources Subsidy Ministry of Trade and Industry Co-operation Ministry of Works Ministry of Housing and Country Planning Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Broadcasting Printing Department Development Office No. of Item Total * The amount shown is exclusive of Statutory Expenditure.

Railway Head of Expenditure Le 165,790 8,143 7,441 61,074 1,180 107,942 92,465 1,674,865 1,171,027 307,500 58,392 179,028 621,145 13,826 25,760 11,814 47,525 55,219 106,805 231,336 20,415 41,498 699,566 1,278 58,658 33,880 85,955 15,759 Le 7,463,071 Sum Voted Le 130,550 NoTE: (This amount is exclusive of Statutory Expenditure and of the sum of Le431,869 included in the amount provided under Head F6 in the First Schedule; the balance of Lel,242,996 provided under Head F 6 represents the difference between the amount provided under that Head by the 1965/66 Appropriation Act, 1965 and the increased subsidy required for the period April, 1965 to March, 1966.) No. 10 1965|66 Supplementary Appropriation (No. 2) 1966 A 49 Passed in the House of Representatives this 28ih day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixty-six. M.P. M,F, 5969i1 S. V. WRIGHT, Clerk of the House of Representatives. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has oeen carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the House of Representatives and found by me to be -a true and correctly printed copy of the said Bill. S. V. WRIGHT, Clerk of the House of Representatives.