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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/montserrat-constitution-order-2010/article-91",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2010/2474",
  "legislation_title": "The Montserrat Constitution Order 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/montserrat-constitution-order-2010",
  "path": "article/91",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "91",
  "heading": "Withdrawal from Consolidated Fund or other public funds",
  "text": "(1) No moneys shall be withdrawn from the Consolidated Fund except—\n(a) to meet expenditure charged on the Fund by this Constitution or by an Act of the Legislature; or\n(b) where the issue of those moneys has been authorised by an Appropriation Act, a Supplementary Appropriation Act, or as provided in subsection (3).\n(2) No moneys shall be withdrawn from any public fund of Montserrat other than the Consolidated Fund unless the issue of those moneys has been authorised by law.\n(3) If the Minister of Finance is satisfied that the Appropriation Act in respect of any financial year will not or has not come into force by the beginning of that financial year, that Minister may, subject to subsection (4), authorise the issue of moneys from the Consolidated Fund for the purpose of meeting expenditure necessary to carry on the services of the Government until the expiration of four months from the beginning of that financial year or the coming into force of the Appropriation Act, whichever is the earlier.\n(4) Any sum issued in any financial year from the Consolidated Fund under subsection (3) in respect of any ongoing service of the Government—\n(a) shall not exceed one third of the amount approved for that service by the Legislature in an Appropriation Act or a Supplementary Appropriation Act for the previous financial year; and\n(b) shall be set off against the amount provided in respect of that service in the Appropriation Act for that financial year when that law comes into force.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2474/article/91",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:28:47.374452+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."
}