Budget Act (Northern Ireland) 2010
2010 CHAPTER 6
An Act to authorise the issue out of the Consolidated Fund of certain sums for the service of the years ending 31st March 2010 and 2011; to appropriate those sums for specified purposes; to authorise the Department of Finance and Personnel to borrow on the credit of the appropriated sums; to authorise the use for the public service of certain resources for the years ending 31st March 2010 and 2011; and to revise the limits on the use of certain accruing resources in the year ending 31st March 2010.
[12th March 2010]
BE IT ENACTED by being passed by the Northern Ireland Assembly and assented to by Her Majesty as follows:
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Issue of sum out of the Consolidated Fund for the year ending 31st March 2010 and appropriation of that sum 1 Issue of sum out of the Consolidated Fund for the year ending 31st March 2010 and appropriation of that sum
(1)The Department of Finance and Personnel may issue out of the Consolidated Fund and apply to the service of the year ending 31st March 2010 the sum of £13,772,054,000.
(2)That sum is appropriated for the purposes specified in Schedule 1.
(3)The authorisation and appropriations in this section supersede those in section 4 of the Budget Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 (c. 5) and section 1 of the Budget (No. 2) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 (c. 7) ; and, in relation to any amount specified in column 2 of Schedule 1, any increase or decrease by virtue of this section in the aggregate amount appropriated by those provisions is given in brackets after the amount.
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Use of resources \\(other than accruing resources) in the year ending 31st March 2010 2 Use of resources \\(other than accruing resources) in the year ending 31st March 2010
(1)For the purposes of section 6(1) of the Government Resources and Accounts Act (Northern Ireland) 2001 (c. 6), this section authorises the use of resources in the year ending 31st March 2010.
(2)The use of resources by-
(a) the Northern Ireland departments;
(b) the Northern Ireland Assembly Commission;
(c) the Northern Ireland Audit Office;
(d) the Assembly Ombudsman for Northern Ireland and the Northern Ireland Commissioner for Complaints;
(e) the Northern Ireland Authority for Utility Regulation; and
(f) the Food Standards Agency,
in that year is authorised to the amount of £15,567,071,000.
(3)In that year, resources may be used by a Northern Ireland department or a body or person mentioned in subsection (2) for the purposes specified in relation to that department, body or person in column 1 of Schedule 2 up to the amounts specified in the corresponding entries in column 2 of that Schedule.
(4)The authorisations in this section supersede those in section 6 of the Budget Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 (c. 5) and section 3 of the Budget (No. 2) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 (c. 7) ; and, in relation to any amount specified in column 2 of Schedule 2, any increase or decrease by virtue of this section in the aggregate amount authorised by those provisions is given in brackets after the amount.
(5)In this section "resources" does not include accruing resources within the meaning of section 8(1) of the Government Resources and Accounts Act (Northern Ireland) 2001 (c. 6) .
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Revised limits on use of certain accruing resources in the year ending 31st March 2010 3 Revised limits on use of certain accruing resources in the year ending 31st March 2010
(1)For the purposes of section 8(1) of the Government Resources and Accounts Act (Northern Ireland) 2001 (c. 6), this section sets the relevant limits on the accruing resources that may be directed to be used for certain purposes in the year ending 31st March 2010 in addition to resources authorised by this Act to be used for those purposes in that year.
(2)In that year accruing resources not exceeding the amount specified in column 3 of Schedule 2 may be directed to be used for the purposes specified in the corresponding entries in column 1 of that Schedule.
(3)The limits set by this section supersede those set by section 4 of the Budget (No. 2) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 (c. 7) ; and, in relation to any amount specified in column 3 of Schedule 2, any increase or decrease by virtue of this section in the amount of the limit set by that section is given in brackets after that amount.
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Issue of sum out of the Consolidated Fund for the year ending 31st March 2011 and appropriation of that sum 4 Issue of sum out of the Consolidated Fund for the year ending 31st March 2011 and appropriation of that sum
(1)The Department of Finance and Personnel may issue out of the Consolidated Fund and apply to the service of the year ending 31st March 2011 the sum of £6,197,971,000.
(2)That sum is appropriated for the purposes specified in Schedule 3.
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Power of the Department of Finance and Personnel to borrow 5 Power of the Department of Finance and Personnel to borrow
(1)Subject to subsection (2), the Department of Finance and Personnel may borrow on the credit of the sum specified in section 4 any sum or sums not exceeding in the whole £3,098,985,000.
(2)Any money so borrowed shall be repaid, with any interest due thereon, out of the Consolidated Fund not later than 31st March 2011.
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Use of resources \\(other than accruing resources) in the year ending 31st March 2011 6 Use of resources \\(other than accruing resources) in the year ending 31st March 2011
(1)For the purposes of section 6(1) of the Government Resources and Accounts Act (Northern Ireland) 2001 (c. 6), this section authorises the use of resources in the year ending 31st March 2011.
(2)The use of resources by-
(a) the Northern Ireland departments;
(b) the Northern Ireland Assembly Commission;
(c) the Northern Ireland Audit Office;
(d) the Assembly Ombudsman for Northern Ireland and the Northern Ireland Commissioner for Complaints;
(e) the Northern Ireland Authority for Utility Regulation; and
(f) the Food Standards Agency,
in that year is authorised to the amount of £6,662,114,000.
(3)In that year, resources may be used by a Northern Ireland department or a body or person mentioned in subsection (2) for the purposes specified in relation to that department, body or person in column 1 of Schedule 4 up to the amounts specified in the corresponding entries in column 2 of that Schedule.
(4)In this section "resources" does not include accruing resources within the meaning of section 8(1) of the Government Resources and Accounts Act (Northern Ireland) 2001 (c. 6) .
7 Short title
This Act may be cited as the Budget Act (Northern Ireland) 2010.
SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1
Sums granted for the year ending 31st March 2010
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Sums Granted
(£)
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT
For expenditure by the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on development of the agriculture and agricultural products industries and alternative land uses, provision and funding of education, training and development services to the agri-food industry, and rural enterprises, provision of veterinary services, measures associated with the provision of scientific services (by the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute and other scientific bodies), measures associated with the Innovation Fund, prevention and eradication of animal diseases, protection of animal welfare, protecting plant health, measures for farm support and conservation and enhancement of the countryside, rural development measures (including anti-poverty and social exclusion), market support, grants and interest rate subsidies for capital and other improvements, support for agriculture in special areas, assistance to production and market development, promoting production hygiene and safety, making hardship payments to farmers and fishermen, flood defence measures, maintenance of watercourses, protection and conservation of sea fisheries and aquaculture, implementation of the European Union Common Fisheries Policy and local fisheries policy, support for the operation of the Loughs Agency of the Foyle, Carlingford and Irish Lights Commission and the Fishery Harbour Authority, protection and conservation of forests, extension of woodland area, promotion of recreational use of forest areas, supply and sale of timber, payments under the European Union Programme for Peace and Reconciliation, payments under the European Union Structural Funds Programmes, payments under the European Fisheries Fund, implementation of and payments in relation to the Common Agricultural Policy, payments of compensation to farmers for animals culled in disease control programmes and administration costs.
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225,213,000
(-57,168,000)
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DEPARTMENT OF CULTURE, ARTS AND LEISURE
For expenditure by the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure on libraries (other than library services to schools); arts and creativity; the North/South Language Body; museums; the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland; W5; events; sports; inland fisheries; certain inland waterways (including payments to the Rivers Agency); Waterways Ireland; administration and certain miscellaneous services; costs associated with Review of Public Administration; linguistic and cultural diversity; grants-in-aid to the Northern Ireland Library Authority for the public library services; National Museums and Galleries Northern Ireland, Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Armagh Observatory and Planetarium and grants-in-aid to certain bodies.
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163,788,000
(-16,393,000)
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
General
For...
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