(1)For the purposes of section 6(1) of the 2001 Act—
(a)the use of resources in the year ending 31 March 2018 by the persons mentioned in subsection (2) is authorised to the amount of £18,040,802,000;
(b)in that year, resources may be used by a person mentioned in that subsection for the purposes specified in relation to that person in column 1 of Schedule 2 up to the amounts specified in the corresponding entries in column 2 of that Schedule.
(2)The persons are—
(a)the Northern Ireland departments;
(b)the Food Standards Agency;
(c)the Northern Ireland Assembly Commission;
(d)the Northern Ireland Audit Office;
(e)the Northern Ireland Authority for Utility Regulation;
(f)the Northern Ireland Public Services Ombudsman;
(g)the Public Prosecution Service for Northern Ireland.
(3)The authorisations in this section supersede those made by section 3 of the Northern Ireland Budget Act 2017; and, in relation to any amount specified in column 2 of Schedule 2, any increase or decrease by virtue of this section in the amount authorised is given in brackets after the amount.
(4)In this section “resources” does not include accruing resources within the meaning of section 8(1) of the 2001 Act.