SECTION 128: Expenses.
Purpose and Effect
This section provides for Parliament to provide money to cover the expenditure of Ministers of the Crown resulting from the Scotland Act. It also requires certain sums received by Ministers of the Crown to be paid into the Consolidated Fund.
Details of Provisions
Subsection (1) provides that any expenditure:
incurred by a Minister of the Crown by virtue of the Scotland Act; and
any increase attributable to the Scotland Act in the sums payable out of money provided by Parliament under any other enactment,
shall be paid out of money provided by Parliament.
Subsection (2) provides that any sums received by a Minister of the Crown by virtue of the Scotland Act shall be paid into the Consolidated Fund, unless they are otherwise directed to be paid into the National Loans Fund (see for example sections 67(4) and 71(8)).