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The 1965/66 Supplementary Appropriation Act, 1966 short title.

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Preamble

Assented to in Her Majesty's 1ame Januarv. 1966. LS ) No. 2 UNIY REEDOMV Sierra Leone this 3/lst day of H. J. L. BOSTON, Governor-General. A 5 The 1965/66 Supplementary Appropriation Act, 1966 short title. Being an Act to make Supplementary Provision for the Service of Sierra Leone for the Year 1965/66 (1st December, 1965.) Date of Commence ment. WHEREAS by the 1965/66 Appropriation Act 1965, a Sum not ex- Act No. 8 of ceeding thirty-twomillion, eight hundred and eighty-seven thousand, 1965, Taur hundred and twenty-eight leones was provided for the Serviceof Sierra Leone for the year nineteen hundred and sixty-five/sixtySix, A6 Le 998,391 Act No. 2 of 1961. 1961. Commence me.it. Le 998.391 granted for 1965/66. AND WHEREAS by virtue of the powers vested in him by Rule 2 Art No. 2of of Part II of the Second Schedule to the Finance (Control and 1961. Management) Act, 1961, the Minister of Finance has by Warrant authorised the issue from the Contingencies Fund of the sum total. ling one hundred and ninety-nine thousand, seven hundred and forty-four 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: No. 2 AND WHEREAS Rule 5 of Part II of the Second Schedule to the Act No. 2 of Finance (Control and Management) Act, 196l, provides that all withdrawals from the Contingencies Fund shall be reported to the House of Representatives 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 appropriations thereto in a Supplemen tary Appropriation Act: Le 998,391 charged on the Revenue. Contingencies Fund pay1ments from date 1965/66 Supplennentary ppropallON warrant. AND WHEREAS it has become nccessary to providc for cxpcndi. ture from the Consolidated Revenue Fund of a furlher sum of nine hundred and ninety-eight thousand, three hundred and nincty-0no leones in excess of the provisions in the above cited Act for the several services set forth in the First and Second Schedules heret o: AND WHEREAS Section 14 of the Finance (Control and Manage ment) Act, 1961, provides that any proposals for such expend1ture be submitted to a vote of the House by means of a Supplementary Bill which shall conta1n that expenditure under appropriate Heads: BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the House of Re presentatives in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Section 1

This Act shall be deemed to have come into operationon the Ist day of December, 1965.

Section 2

The sum of nine hundred and ninety-eight thousand threehundred and ninety-one leones shall be and is hereby granted to Her Majesty the Queen Her Heirs and Successors, for and during the year nineteen hundred and sixty-five/sixty-six to be applied for the several services set forth in the First and Second Schedules.

Section 3

Thesaid sum of nine hundred and ninety-eight thousand,three hundred and ninety-one leones shall be and is hereby declaredto be charged upon and made payable from and out of the Consoli dated Revenue Fund for the year nineteen hundred and sixty-five/ sixty-six and the payment thereof shall be taken to begin imnediately after the commencement of this Act: 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 bave begun on the date of the Warrant of authorising such payment No. 2 1965|66 Supplementary Appropriation 1966

Section 4

The Accountant-General is hereby authorised and re- Accountantquired from time to time upon the Warrant or Order of the Minister General's of Finance to pay out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund (a) the sum of seven hundred and ninety-eight thousand, six hundred and forty-seven leones for the services specified in the First Schedule; and

Section 6

(6) the amount of one hundred and ninety-nine thousand, seven hundred and forty-four leones already paid intothe Consolidated Revenue Fund from the Contingen cies Fund under Warrants issued by the Minister of Finance under the provisions of Rule 2 of the Contin gencies Fund Rules, 1961, for the services specified in the Second Schedule, during the year ending on the thirty-first day of March nineteenhundred and sixty-six. A 7 authority to pay 5. The Accountant-General is also hereby authorised and Re- imbures required upon the Warrant or Order of the Minister of Finance to ment of Con pay from the Consolidated Revenue Fund into the Contingencies tingencies Fund.Fund the sum of one hundred and ninety-nine thousand, seven hundred and forty-four leones in reimbursement of the sums with drawn from the Contingencies Fund for the services set out in the Second Schedule. The amount from time to time paid for and in respect of Balance at the expenditure authorised in section 2 shall not exceed in gross the 31st March sum of nine hundred and ninety-eight thousand, three hundred and 1966, to laps, ninety-one leones during the year ending on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and sixty-six and any balances renaining unissued at the end of March, nineteen hundred and sixty-six, shal lapse and shallnot be available for making payments in the following years. H F 66,427 | Social Welfare PostsandmunicationsRuadTransportDepartment F 7,00012,620 MiscellancousServices LocalGovernmentGrantsMinistry External Afairs 26,125 2,6402,723 Administrator Registrar-General's Department 3,848 Police 10,960 LawOfficersDepartment 6,342 4JudicialDepartment Leones SECONDSCHEDULE *Exclusive Statutory Expenditure Total 2Broadcasting Housing Country Planning 798,647 N MinistryofWorks 12,140 56,7693,745 NaturalResourcesSubsidyMinistry Agriculture Natural Rcsources L 3,6756,414 SurveysandLands Mines :::::::::: 56,5009,720 Labour Lands, Mines Labour MinistryofHealth 3,109 H Social Welfare 22,042 PostsandTelecommunications 20,000 RoadTransportDepartnent 59,271 MeteorologyMinistry Transport arnd Communications 5,671 CentralStatisticsOlice 2,000 MiscellaneousServicesContribution to Capital Budget 105,877 12,080 $ PublicDebtCharges IncomeTax Custonnsandxcise D Military D MinistryofDetence D External Aairs LocalGovernmentMinistry the lnterior § Administrator Registrar-General's Department (( Police JudicialDepartment I PrimeMinister'sOiee A 26,998167,647 3,230 120,55460,103 400 8,058 274 450 Audit A Governor-General :::::::B: 20,0804,006 523 FRSTSCHEDULE Leones No. 2 1905/00SuppenentaryAppropriation Grants No. 2 1965/66 Supplementary Appropriation I Ministry of Health K 4 Mines LI Ministry ofAgriculture and Natural ResourcesM 3 Co-operation 0I Mtinistry of Housing and Country PlanningP 2 Broadcasting 1 Development Office Total 1966 A9 M.. MF 1965/66 Leones 33,592 12,000 14.655 199,744 Ised in the House of Representatives this 6th day of January. in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixty-six. S. V. WRIGHT, Clerk of the House of Representatives. Tuis PRINTED IMPRESstoN has ben carefully compared by me with the Bill which has pa ssed the House of Representatives and found by me to be atrue and correctly printed copy of the said Bill. S. V. WRIGHT, Clerk of the House of Representatives.

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