# Budget (No. 2) Act (Northern Ireland) 2013 (repealed)

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# Budget (No. 2) Act (Northern Ireland) 2013

# 2013 CHAPTER 9

An Act to authorise the issue out of the Consolidated Fund of certain sums for the service of the year ending 31st March 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 (including accruing resources)                        for the year ending 31st March 2014; and to repeal certain spent provisions.                     

[18th July 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 2014 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 2014 the sum of £8,271,268,000.                  

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

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

2—(1) Subject to subsection (2), the Department of Finance and Personnel may borrow on the credit of the sum specified in section                     1 any sum or sums not exceeding in the whole £4,135,634,000.                  

(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 year ending 31st March 2014N.I.

3—(1) For the purposes of section 6(1) of the 2001 Act, 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 mentioned in Schedule 2;                  

(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 £8,558,118,000.

(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.                  

## Limit on use of accruing resources in year ending 31st March 2014N.I.

4—(1) For the purposes of section 8(1) of the 2001 Act, 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 2014 in addition to resources authorised by this                     Act or any other statutory provision 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.                  

## Repeal of spent provisionsN.I.

5   The statutory provisions mentioned in Schedule 3 are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the second column of that                     Schedule.                  

## InterpretationN.I.

6   In this Act—                  

“the 2001 Act” means the Government Resources and Accounts Act (Northern Ireland) 2001;                  

“resources” does not include accruing resources within the meaning of section 8(1) of the 2001 Act;                  

“statutory provision” has the same meaning as in section 1(f) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954.                  

## Short titleN.I.

7   This Act may be cited as the Budget (No. 2) Act (Northern Ireland) 2013.                  

# SCHEDULES

 Section 1.

## SCHEDULE 1N.I.Sums granted for the year ending 31st March 2014

 Sections 3 and 4.

## SCHEDULE 2N.I.Amounts of resources authorised for use and amounts of accruing resources which may be used in year ending 31st March 2014

 Section 5.

## SCHEDULE 3N.I.Repeals