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(1) The Governor shall cause to be prepared and laid
before the House of Assembly at any time before the commencement
of each financial year estimates of the revenues and expenditure
of the State for the next following financial year.
(2) The heads of expenditure contained in the estimates,
other than expenditure charged upon the Consolidated Revenue
Fund of the State by this Constitution, shall be included
in a bill, to be known as an Appropriation Bill, providing
for the issue from the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the State
of the sums necessary to meet that expenditure and the appropriation
of those sums for the purposes specified therein.
(3) Any amount standing to the credit of the judiciary in
the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the State shall be paid directly
to the heads of the courts concerned.
(4) If in respect of any financial year, it is found that
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(a) the amount appropriated by the Appropriation
Law for any purpose is insufficient; or
(b) a need has arisen for expenditure for a purpose for
which no amount has been appropriated by the Law,
a supplementary estimate showing the sums required shall
be laid before the House of Assembly and the heads of any
such expenditure shall be included in a Supplementary Appropriation
Bill.
