Part 5Finance
Expenditure
126Supplementary Budget motions
1
For any financial year there may be moved in the Assembly one or more motions (referred to in this Act as a “supplementary Budget motion”) for either or both of the purposes specified in subsections (2) and (3).
2
A supplementary Budget motion may approve a variation in any one or more of the following—
a
the amount of resources authorised to be used in the financial year by a relevant person, or pursuant to a relevant enactment, for any service or purpose,
b
the amount of resources accruing to a relevant person in the financial year and authorised to be retained by that person to be used for any service or purpose, and
c
the amount authorised to be paid out of the Welsh Consolidated Fund in the financial year to a relevant person, or for use pursuant to a relevant enactment, for any service or purpose.
3
A supplementary Budget motion may authorise any one or more of the following—
a
the amount of resources which may be used in the financial year by a relevant person, or pursuant to a relevant enactment, for a service or purpose specified in the motion,
b
the amount of resources accruing to a relevant person in the financial year which may be retained by that person to be used for a service or purpose so specified, and
c
the amount which may be paid out of the Welsh Consolidated Fund in the financial year to a relevant person, or for use pursuant to a relevant enactment, for a service or purpose so specified.
4
A supplementary Budget motion for any financial year may be expressed to have effect from a time before it is made; but that time may not be earlier than—
a
the date on which the last supplementary Budget motion for the financial year was passed, or
b
(if none has) the date on which the annual Budget motion for the financial year was passed.
5
A supplementary Budget motion may only be moved by the First Minister or a Welsh Minister appointed under section 48.