{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/turks-and-caicos-islands-constitution-order-2011/schedule-2/paragraph-117",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2011/1681",
  "legislation_title": "The Turks and Caicos Islands Constitution Order 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/turks-and-caicos-islands-constitution-order-2011",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/117",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "117",
  "heading": "Excess expenditure",
  "text": "(1) Where, in exceptional circumstances, at the close of accounts for any financial year it is found that moneys have been expended on any expenditure in excess of the amount appropriated for it by an appropriation law enacted by the Legislature or a supplementary appropriation law enacted by the Legislature or for a purpose for which no moneys have been voted and appropriated, the amount of the excess expended, or not appropriated, as the case may be, shall be included in a statement of expenditure in excess.\n(2) The Minister of Finance shall lay every statement of expenditure in excess before the Parliament, which shall refer it to the Public Accounts Committee of the Parliament, and the Minister shall at the same time send a copy of the statement to the Governor.\n(3) The Public Accounts Committee shall report to the Parliament on a statement of expenditure in excess referred to it under subsection (2) within six months after the statement is referred to it.\n(4) Where on receiving any report of the Public Accounts Committee issued under subsection (3) the Parliament, by means of a resolution, allows the excess or the amount expended but not appropriated to stand charged to public funds, the sum required to meet that excess or such amount as shall be allowed shall be included in a Supplementary Appropriation Bill for appropriation.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 s. 117(1) substituted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Turks and Caicos Islands Constitution (Amendment) Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/1128), art. 7(3) (with art. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 2 substituted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Turks and Caicos Islands Constitution (Amendment) Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/1128), art. 8(1) (with arts. 4, 8(2))"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/1681/schedule/2/paragraph/117",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:02:17.487261+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."
}