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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/budget-act-northern-ireland-2021/section-1",
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  "legislation": "nia/2021/4",
  "legislation_title": "Budget Act (Northern Ireland) 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/budget-act-northern-ireland-2021",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Issue of sum out of the Consolidated Fund for the year ending 31 March 2021 and appropriation of that sum",
  "text": "(1) The Department of Finance may issue out of the Consolidated Fund and apply to the service of the year ending 31 March 2021 the sum of £22,220,328,000.\n(2) That sum is appropriated for the purposes specified in Schedule 1.\n(3) The authorisation and appropriations in this section supersede those made by section 4 of the Budget Act (Northern Ireland) 2020, section 1 of the Budget (No. 2) Act (Northern Ireland) 2020 and section 1 of the Budget (No. 3) Act (Northern Ireland) 2020; and, in relation to any amount specified in column 2 of Schedule 1, any increase or decrease in the amount appropriated is given in brackets after the amount.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2021/4/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:19:37.681006+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}