Northern Ireland Budget Act 2023

Supplementary

13 Act to take effect as if it were a Budget Act of the Assembly

(1) The authorisations in this Act, and the limits set by it, take effect as if they were authorisations in, and limits set by, an Act of the Northern Ireland Assembly; and accordingly any reference in a statutory provision to a Budget Act of the Assembly includes a reference to this Act.

(2) The 2001 Act applies in respect of the year ending 31 March 2023 with the following modifications—

(a) section 6(4) has effect as if for “if an estimate is approved by the Assembly for that body or person in respect of each financial year” there were substituted “if an estimate is laid before Parliament for that body or person in respect of the year ending 31 March 2023”;

(b) section 9(1) has effect as if for “for which an estimate is approved by the Assembly in respect of a financial year” there were substituted “for which an estimate is laid before Parliament in respect of the year ending 31 March 2023”;

(c) section 13(1) has effect as if for “where an estimate is approved by the Assembly for any body or person in respect of any financial year” there were substituted “where an estimate is laid before Parliament for any body or person in respect of the year ending 31 March 2023”.

(3) For the purposes of preparing accounts for the year ending 31 March 2023 for—

(a) the Northern Ireland Audit Office (as required by Article 6(3) of the Audit (Northern Ireland) Order 1987 (S.I. 1987/460 (N.I. 5)), or

(b) the office of the Northern Ireland Public Services Ombudsman (as required by paragraph 19 of Schedule 1 to the Public Services Ombudsman Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 4 (N.I.))),

any estimate of the use of resources for that year that is laid before Parliament is to be treated as if it had been laid before the Northern Ireland Assembly under Article 6(2) of that Order or (as the case may be) under paragraph 18 of Schedule 1 to that Act.

14 Repeal of provisions superseded by this Act

Sections 4 to 6 of, and Schedules 3 and 4 to, the Budget Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 (c. 6 (N.I.)) are omitted.

15 Interpretation

In this Act—

• “the 2001 Act” means the Government Resources and Accounts Act (Northern Ireland) 2001 (c. 6 (N.I.));

• “the Consolidated Fund” means the Consolidated Fund of Northern Ireland;

• “the Department” means the Department of Finance in Northern Ireland;

• “Northern Ireland department” has the same meaning as in the Northern Ireland Act 1998;

• “Schedule 1 estimate” has the meaning given in section 2(1);

• “Schedule 2 estimate” has the meaning given in section 9(1);

• “statutory provision” has the same meaning as in section 1(f) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 (c. 33 (N.I.)).

16 Short title

This Act may be cited as the Northern Ireland Budget Act 2023.