# Budget Act (Northern Ireland) 2013 (repealed)

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N.I.

# Budget Act (Northern Ireland) 2013

# 2013 CHAPTER 4

An Act to authorise the issue out of the Consolidated Fund of certain sums for the service of the years ending 31st March                        2013 and 2014; to appropriate those sums for specified purposes; to authorise the Department of Finance and Personnel to borrow                        on the credit of the appropriated sums; to authorise the use for the public service of certain resources for the years ending                        31st March 2013 and 2014; and to revise the limits on the use of certain accruing resources in the year ending 31st March                        2013.                     

[14th March 2013]

BE IT ENACTED by being passed by the Northern Ireland Assembly and assented to by Her Majesty as follows:

## Issue of sum out of the Consolidated Fund for the year ending 31st March 2013 and appropriation of that sumN.I.

1—(1) The Department of Finance and Personnel may issue out of the Consolidated Fund and apply to the service of the year ending                     31st March 2013 the sum of £15,459,758,000.                  

(2) That sum is appropriated for the purposes specified in Schedule 1.

(3) The authorisation and appropriations in this section supersede those in section 4 of the Budget Act (Northern Ireland) 2012                     and section 1 of the Budget (No. 2) Act (Northern Ireland) 2012; and, in relation to any amount specified in column 2 of Schedule 1, any increase or decrease                     by virtue of this section in the aggregate amount appropriated by those provisions is given in brackets after the amount.                  

## Use of resources (other than accruing resources) in the year ending 31st March 2013N.I.

2—(1) For the purposes of section 6(1) of the Government Resources and Accounts Act (Northern Ireland) 2001, this section authorises                     the use of resources in the year ending 31st March 2013.                  

(2) The use of resources by—

(a)the Northern Ireland departments;                  

(b)the Northern Ireland Assembly Commission;                  

(c)the Assembly Ombudsman for Northern Ireland and the Northern Ireland Commissioner for Complaints;                  

(d)the Food Standards Agency;                  

(e)the Northern Ireland Audit Office;                  

(f)the Northern Ireland Authority for Utility Regulation; and                  

(g)the Public Prosecution Service for Northern Ireland,                  

in that year is authorised to the amount of £16,572,965,000.

(3) In that year, resources may be used by a Northern Ireland department or a body or person mentioned in subsection (2) for the                     purposes specified in relation to that department, body or person in column 1 of Schedule 2 up to the amounts specified in                     the corresponding entries in column 2 of that Schedule.                  

(4) The authorisations in this section supersede those in section 6 of the Budget Act (Northern Ireland) 2012 and section 3 of                     the Budget (No. 2) Act (Northern Ireland) 2012; and, in relation to any amount specified in column 2 of Schedule 2, any increase                     or decrease by virtue of this section in the aggregate amount authorised by those provisions is given in brackets after the                     amount.                  

(5) In this section “resources” does not include accruing resources within the meaning of section 8(1) of the Government Resources and Accounts Act (Northern                     Ireland) 2001.                  

## Revised limits on use of certain accruing resources in the year ending 31st March 2013N.I.

3—(1) For the purposes of section 8(1) of the Government Resources and Accounts Act (Northern Ireland) 2001, this section sets the                     relevant limits on the accruing resources that may be directed to be used for certain purposes in the year ending 31st March                     2013 in addition to resources authorised by this Act to be used for those purposes in that year.                  

(2) In that year accruing resources not exceeding the amount specified in column 3 of Schedule 2 may be directed to be used for                     the purposes specified in the corresponding entries in column 1 of that Schedule.                  

(3) The limits set by this section supersede those set by section 4 of the Budget (No. 2) Act (Northern Ireland) 2012; and, in                     relation to any amount specified in column 3 of Schedule 2, any increase or decrease by virtue of this section in the amount                     of the limit set by that section is given in brackets after that amount.                  

## Issue of sum out of the Consolidated Fund for the year ending 31st March 2014 and appropriation of that sumN.I.

4—(1) The Department of Finance and Personnel may issue out of the Consolidated Fund and apply to the service of the year ending                     31st March 2014 the sum of £7,136,563,000.                  

(2) That sum is appropriated for the purposes specified in Schedule 3.

## Power of the Department of Finance and Personnel to borrowN.I.

5—(1) Subject to subsection (2), the Department of Finance and Personnel may borrow on the credit of the sum specified in section                     4 any sum or sums not exceeding in the whole £3,568,281,000.                  

(2) Any money so borrowed shall be repaid, with any interest due thereon, out of the Consolidated Fund not later than 31st March                     2014.                  

## Use of resources (other than accruing resources) in the year ending 31st March 2014N.I.

6—(1) For the purposes of section 6(1) of the Government Resources and Accounts Act (Northern Ireland) 2001, this section authorises                     the use of resources in the year ending 31st March 2014.                  

(2) The use of resources by—

(a)the Northern Ireland departments;                  

(b)the Northern Ireland Assembly Commission;                  

(c)the Assembly Ombudsman for Northern Ireland and the Northern Ireland Commissioner for Complaints;                  

(d)the Food Standards Agency;                  

(e)the Northern Ireland Audit Office;                  

(f)the Northern Ireland Authority for Utility Regulation; and                  

(g)the Public Prosecution Service for Northern Ireland,                  

in that year is authorised to the amount of £7,641,877,000.

(3) In that year, resources may be used by a Northern Ireland department or a body or person mentioned in subsection (2) for the                     purposes specified in relation to that department, body or person in column 1 of Schedule 4 up to the amounts specified in                     the corresponding entries in column 2 of that Schedule.                  

(4) In this section “resources” does not include accruing resources within the meaning of section 8(1) of the Government Resources and Accounts Act (Northern                     Ireland) 2001.                  

## Short titleN.I.

7   This Act may be cited as the Budget Act (Northern Ireland) 2013.                  

# SCHEDULES

 Section 1.

## SCHEDULE 1N.I.Sums granted for the year ending 31st March 2013

 Sections 2 and 3.

## SCHEDULE 2N.I.Amounts of resources authorised for use and amounts of accruing resources which may be used in year ending 31st March 2013

 Section 4.

## SCHEDULE 3N.I.Sums granted for the year ending 31st March 2014

 Section 6.

## SCHEDULE 4N.I.Amounts of resources authorised for use in the year ending 31st March 2014