{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/budget-scotland-act-2000/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/budget-scotland-act-2000/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2000/2",
  "legislation_title": "Budget (Scotland) Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/budget-scotland-act-2000",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Emergency arrangements",
  "text": "(1) This section applies if, at the beginning of financial year 2001/02, payments in that year out of the Fund under section 65(1)(c) of the 1998 Act have not been authorised by any enactment.\n(2) Until there is in force a Budget Act providing such authorisation—\n(a) any purpose for which payments out of the Fund are authorised to be made by this Act for financial year 2000/01 shall be taken to be a purpose for which payments out of the Fund are authorised to be made in financial year 2001/02, and\n(b) the maximum amount which may, in each calendar month of financial year 2001/02, be paid out of the Fund for any purpose must not exceed whichever is the greater of—\n(i) one-twelfth of the maximum amount authorised by this Act to be paid out for that purpose in financial year 2000/01, and\n(ii) the amount paid out of the Fund for that purpose in the corresponding calendar month of that financial year,\nand section 4 of the 2000 Act has effect accordingly.\n(3) Subsection (2) is subject to any provision made by Budget Act for financial year 2001/02.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2000/2/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:17:29.269075+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."
}