Part VI Financial Provisions

Consolidated Fund

57 Consolidated Fund of Northern Ireland.

1

The Consolidated Fund of Northern Ireland shall continue to exist.

2

Sums forming part of the Fund—

a

shall be appropriated to the public service of Northern Ireland by Act of the Assembly; and

b

shall not be applied for any purpose for which they are not appropriated.

3

Subsection (2) is subject to section 59 and to any provision which charges sums on the Fund and is made—

a

by or under an Act of Parliament; or

b

by an Act of the Assembly or other Northern Ireland legislation.