{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/budget-act-northern-ireland-2025/section-2",
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  "legislation": "nia/2025/1",
  "legislation_title": "Budget Act (Northern Ireland) 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/budget-act-northern-ireland-2025",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Limits on use of resources",
  "text": "(1) Schedule 1 contains estimates relating to the persons mentioned in section 1(3) for the year ending 31 March 2025 (“Schedule 1 estimates”).\n(2) In the year ending 31 March 2025, a person mentioned in section 1(3) may use resources in accordance with subsections (3) to (7) and the Schedule 1 estimate relating to that person.\n(3) The person may use resources specified in column 2 of Part 1 of the estimate for the purposes specified in Part 2 of the estimate; but this is subject to subsections (4) to (7).\n(4) Where Part 1 of the estimate authorises the use of net resources for current purposes, the person—\n(a) may use resources up to the amount so authorised for current purposes;\n(b) must not use those resources for capital purposes.\n(5) Where Part 1 of the estimate authorises the use of net resources for capital purposes, the person—\n(a) may use resources up to the amount so authorised for capital purposes;\n(b) must not use those resources for current purposes.\n(6) Where Part 1 of the estimate authorises the use of net resources in relation to a category of expenditure, the person—\n(a) may use resources up to the amount so authorised for a purpose identified in the estimate as falling within that category of expenditure;\n(b) must not use those resources for any other purpose.\n(7) The categories of expenditure are—\n(a) expenditure subject to a departmental expenditure limit;\n(b) annually managed expenditure;\n(c) non-budget expenditure.\n(8) The authorisations in this section and in section 1 supersede those made by sections 1 and 2 of the Budget (No.2) Act (Northern Ireland) 2024, which total £28,772,794,000.\nIn relation to any amount of resource specified in column 2 of Part 1 of a Schedule 1 estimate, any increase or decrease by virtue of this section in the amount authorised is given in column 3 of that Part.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2025/1/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:19:06.765041+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."
}