Constitution Section 205 — Supplementary, additional or excess grants
Part VI — THE STATES — Procedure in Financial Matters
Constitutional
Summary
If the amount approved for a particular government service in a financial year turns out to be not enough, or if a new need for spending arises that was not included in the annual budget, the Governor must have a supplementary statement of estimated expenditure laid before the State Legislature. The same applies if money was already spent on a service in excess of the amount granted for that year—the Governor must have a demand for that excess amount presented to the Legislative Assembly. The rules for the annual budget, including how demands for grants are made and how laws authorising spending from the State’s Consolidated Fund are passed, also apply to these supplementary or excess grants.
Official Text
(1) The Governor shall—
(a) if the amount authorised by any law made in accordance with the provisions of article 204 to be expended for a particular service for the current financial year is found to be insufficient for the purposes of that year or when a need has arisen during the current financial year for supplementary or additional expenditure upon some new service not contemplated in the annual financial statement for that year; or
(b) if any money has been spent on any service during a financial year in excess of the amount granted for that service and for that year,cause to be laid before the House or the Houses of the Legislature of the State another statement showing the estimated amount of that expenditure or cause to be presented to the Legislative Assembly of the State a demand for such excess, as the case may be.
(2) The provisions of articles 202, 203 and 204 shall have effect in relation to any such statement and expenditure or demand and also to any law to be made authorising the appropriation of moneys out of the Consolidated Fund of the State to meet such expenditure or the grant in respect of such demand as they have effect in relation to the annual financial statement and the expenditure mentioned therein or to a demand for a grant and the law to be made for the authorisation of appropriation of moneys out of the Consolidated Fund of the State to meet such expenditure or grant.