Government of Wales Act 2006

120 Destination of receipts

(1) Any sum received by or on behalf of—

(a) the Welsh Ministers, the First Minister or the Counsel General,

(b) the Assembly Commission,

(c) the Auditor General, or

(d) the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales,

is to be paid into the Welsh Consolidated Fund (unless it is paid out of that Fund, and subject as follows); and this subsection applies in spite of provision contained in any other enactment unless the enactment provides expressly that any such sum is not to be paid into the Welsh Consolidated Fund.

(2) If and to the extent that sums received as mentioned in subsection (1) are received in connection with resources—

(a) which are within a category specified by resolution of the Assembly for the purposes of this subsection,

(b) which accrued to a person within subsection (1), and

(c) the retention of which by that person is authorised by a Budget resolution of the Assembly for the financial year in which the resources accrued,

the sums may be retained for use for the services and purposes specified in a Budget resolution of the Assembly for the financial year in which they are received as services and purposes for which retained resources may be used.

(3) The Treasury may, after consulting the Welsh Ministers, by order designate any description of sums received as mentioned in subsection (1).

(4) The Welsh Ministers must make payments to the Secretary of State of sums equal to the total amount of sums of that description.

(5) Payments by the Welsh Ministers under subsection (4) are to be made at such times, and by such methods, as the Treasury may from time to time determine.

(6) Sums required for the making of the payments are to be charged on the Welsh Consolidated Fund.

(7) A statutory instrument containing an order under subsection (3) is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of the House of Commons.

(8) In this Act “Budget resolution of the Assembly” means a resolution on an annual Budget motion (see section 125) or a supplementary Budget motion (see section 126).