Part 5Finance

Expenditure

126Supplementary Budget motions

1

For any financial year there may be moved in the F1Senedd 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.