Supply and Appropriation (Main Estimates) Act 2012
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Supply and Appropriation (Main Estimates) Act 2012
2012 CHAPTER 13
An Act to authorise the use of resources for the year ending with 31 March 2013; to authorise both the issue of sums out of the Consolidated Fund and the application of income for that year; and to appropriate the supply authorised for that year by this Act and by the Supply and Appropriation (Anticipation and Adjustments) Act 2012.
[17th July 2012]
Whereas the Commons of the United Kingdom in Parliament assembled have resolved to authorise the use of resources and the issue of sums out of the Consolidated Fund towards making good the supply which they have granted to Her Majesty in this Session of Parliament:-
Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-
1 Main authorisation for use of resources for 2012-13
(1) The amount up to which there is authorisation for the use of resources for the year ending with 31 March 2013 is increased by £287,610,057,000.
(2) Of the amount authorised by subsection (1)-
(a) £261,045,822,000 is authorised for use for current purposes; and
(b) £26,564,235,000 is authorised for use for capital purposes.
2 Main authorisation for issue of money out of Consolidated Fund in 2012-13
The amount up to which the Treasury has authorisation-
(a) to issue money out of the Consolidated Fund, and
(b) to apply it in the year ending with 31 March 2013 for expenditure authorised by Parliament,
is increased by £252,933,927,000.
3 Appropriation of resources authorised for use for year 2012-13
(1) The aggregate of the following (which is £520,757,960,000) is appropriated for the year ending with 31 March 2013 in accordance with subsections (2) to (4)-
(a) the amount of resources the use of which for that year is authorised by section 1(1) of the Supply and Appropriation (Anticipation and Adjustments) Act 2012; and
(b) the amount of resources the use of which for that year is authorised by section 1(1).
(2) The amount of resources which is -
(a) set out in each of the Scheduled Estimates, and
(b) identified in that Estimate as a net amount authorised subject to a particular Departmental Expenditure Limit,
is appropriated by this Act for use, for current or for capital purposes (according to how it is identified in the Estimate), in respect of any relevant DEL matter.
(3) The amount of resources which is-
(a) set out in each of the Scheduled Estimates, and
(b) identified in that Estimate as a net amount of Annually Managed Expenditure,
is appropriated by this Act for use, for current or for capital purposes (according to how it is identified in the Estimate), in respect of any relevant AME matter.
(4) The amount of resources which is-
(a) set out in each of the Scheduled Estimates, and
(b) identified in that Estimate as a net amount of Non-Budget Voted Expenditure,
is appropriated by this Act for use, for current or for capital purposes (according to how it is identified in the Estimate), in respect of any relevant NBVE matter.
(5) Section 5(4) applies (instead of subsections (2) to (4)) to any amount of resources set out in a Scheduled Estimate if it is identified in that Estimate as representing the amount of an estimated surplus.
4 Appropriation of money authorised for issue in year 2012-13
(1) The aggregate of the following (which is £458,181,147,000) is appropriated for the year ending with 31 March 2013 in accordance with subsection (2)-
(a) the amount of money the issue of which out of the Consolidated Fund is authorised by section 1(3) of the Supply and Appropriation (Anticipation and Adjustments) Act 2012; and
(b) the amount of money the issue of which out of that Fund is authorised by section 2.
(2) The amount of money which is set out in each of the Scheduled Estimates and identified in that Estimate as a net cash requirement is appropriated for expenditure-
(a) on any use of resources that has been authorised by Parliament in relation to the department or other person to which the Estimate relates, or in relation to the service to which it relates; or
(b) for any other purpose specified in that Estimate as a purpose for which that money may be applied.
(3) Section 5(4) applies (instead of subsection (2) of this section) to any amount of money set out in a Scheduled Estimate if it is identified in that Estimate as representing the amount of an estimated surplus.
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