{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contingencies-fund-act-2020/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contingencies-fund-act-2020/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2020/6",
  "legislation_title": "Contingencies Fund Act 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contingencies-fund-act-2020",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Temporary increase of capital limit of Contingencies Fund",
  "text": "(1) Section 1(1) of the Contingencies Fund Act 1974 (which provides that the capital of the Contingencies Fund must not exceed 2 per cent of the authorised supply expenditure for the year ending on the previous 31 March) is modified as follows.\n(2) The reference to 2 per cent is to be read as if it were a reference to 50 per cent.\n(3) The modification made by subsection (2) has effect in relation to any time before 1 April 2021.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2020/6/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:02:09.366129+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."
}