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Financial Procedure Act 1957 s 13

Financial Procedure Act 1957 s 13

Sections 22–35 were repealed by later amendments.

s 13 Payment of moneys

(1) No moneys shall be withdrawn from the Consolidated Fund except in the manner provided by this section. (2) The Minister or the Menteri Besar or Chief Minister, as the case may be, shall by warrant under his hand authorize the issue from the Consolidated Fund of such sums as may be required to meet the cost of any service charged upon the Consolidated Fund, and those sums shall be accounted in the Consolidated Revenue Account: Provided that this subsection shall not apply to sums issued from the Consolidated Fund to meet the cost of any service charged upon the Consolidated Fundβ€” (a) authorized by law to be met from moneys accounted in the Consolidated Loan Account or the Consolidated Trust Account; and (b) withdrawn from the Consolidated Fund in accordance with subsection (4) or (5). (3) (a) (i) The Minister may by warrant under his hand authorize the issue from the Federal Consolidated Fund of sums to meet the expenditure appropriated by a Supply Act or authorized by law in accordance with Article 102 of the Federal Constitution and such sums shall be accounted in the Consolidated Revenue Account. (ii) The Menteri Besar or Chief Minister may by warrant under his hand authorize the issue from the Consolidated Fund of the State of sums to meet the expenditure appropriated by a Supply Enactment or authorized by law for part of a year before the passing of the Supply Enactment, and the sums shall be accounted in the Consolidated Revenue Account: Provided that in neither of the above cases shall the aggregate of the sums under each purpose of expenditure exceed the total sum so appropriated or authorized in respect of the purpose. (b) Notwithstanding any general or specific authority which may have been given by him, it shall be within the discretion of the Minister or the Menteri Besar or Chief Minister, as the case may be, to limit or suspend any expenditure so authorized. (4) The Minister or the Menteri Besar or Chief Minister, as the case may be, may by warrant under his hand authorize the issue from the Consolidated Fund of sums to be applied for the purposes for which funds shall have been appropriated by or in accordance with any written law authorizing the raising of a loan and those sums shall be accounted in the Consolidated Loan Account. (5) (a) No moneys accounted in the Consolidated Trust Account shall be withdrawn from the Consolidated Fund except for the purposes of a trust or under the authority of a law. (b) The financial authority or any person specified under subsection 9(3) in respect of any trust account or class of trust accounts may withdraw moneys accounted in the Consolidated Trust Account. (6) Every warrant issued under this section for the service of any financial year shall lapse and cease to have any effect at the close of one calendar month following the financial year; and no payment in respect of any service authorized under the warrant shall be made during that month except in respect of work performed, goods received, services rendered or any other contractual arrangement made prior to the end of that year and properly chargeable to the accounts of that year.

Read this section in the full act β†’ Β· Open Part III β†’

Find Act 61 on lom.agc.gov.my β†—

Text as at 1 January 2006 (LOM reprint); amendments made after that date may not be incorporated.

Source: Laws of Malaysia, Attorney General's Chambers of Malaysia (lom.agc.gov.my). Not a copy of the Gazette printed by the Government Printer (Interpretation Acts 1948 and 1967, s 61).

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