Section 8A Power to make additional capital repayments out of surplus on votes.F1

Where—

(a)

an Act authorises any sum to be issued out of the Consolidated Fund towards making good the supply granted to His Majesty for the service of any year and appropriates that sum by a vote for particular services and purposes as expressed in the Act; and

(b)

those services and purposes include a capital repayment, that is to say, the repaymentF2. . . of sums issued out of the Consolidated Fund, under or by virtue of any enactment for capital purposes specified in that enactmentF3. . . …F4;

any surplus arising on that vote by a saving of expenditure on any service or purpose other than a capital repayment may be applied before the end of that year in making such additions to such of the capital repayments included in that vote as the Ministry may direct.]

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: 1952 c.7 (NI)
F2: 2001 c. 6 (NI)
F3: 1983 NI 1
F4: 1978 NI 11