# Budget (Scotland) Act 2000, Section 5: Emergency arrangements

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(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.
(2) Until there is in force a Budget Act providing such authorisation—
(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
(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—
(i) one-twelfth of the maximum amount authorised by this Act to be paid out for that purpose in financial year 2000/01, and
(ii) the amount paid out of the Fund for that purpose in the corresponding calendar month of that financial year,
and section 4 of the 2000 Act has effect accordingly.
(3) Subsection (2) is subject to any provision made by Budget Act for financial year 2001/02.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2000/2/section/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/budget-scotland-act-2000/section-5
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