Northern Ireland Budget Act 2019 (repealed)

The Department may issue out of the Consolidated Fund and apply to the service of the year ending 31 March 2020 the sum of £5,306,684,000.

That sum is appropriated for the purposes specified in Schedule 1.

The Department may borrow on the credit of the sum specified in section 1(1) any sum or sums not exceeding in total £2,653,342,000.

Any money so borrowed must be repaid, with any interest due on it, out of the Consolidated Fund not later than 31 March 2020.

For the purposes of section 6(1) of the 2001 Act, this section authorises the use of resources in the year ending 31 March 2020 by the persons mentioned in subsection (3) to the amount of £6,041,303,000.

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.

The persons are—

In this section “resources” does not include accruing resources within the meaning of section 8(1) of the 2001 Act.

For the purposes of section 8(1) of the 2001 Act, this section sets the relevant limits on the accruing resources that may be directed to be used for certain purposes in the year ending 31 March 2020 in addition to resources authorised by this Act or any other statutory provision to be used for those purposes in that year.

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.

The authorisations and appropriations in this Act, and the limits set by it, are to take effect as if they were authorisations and appropriations 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.

The 2001 Act applies in respect of the year ending 31 March 2020 with the following modifications—

For the purposes of preparing accounts for the year ending 31 March 2020 for— 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.