Supply and Appropriation (Adjustments) Act 2022

• Citation: 2022 c. 41
• Sections: 4

Section 1 Authorisation of supplementary provision for 2022-23

(1) The amount up to which the authorisation was conferred for the use of resources for the year ending with 31 March 2023 is to be treated as further increased by £71,351,000,000.

(2) In relation to the further amount treated as authorised by subsection (1) —

(a) the amount up to which there is authorisation for use for current purposes is to be treated as further increased by £60,176,000,000, and

(b) the amount up to which there is authorisation for use for capital purposes is to be treated as further increased by £11,175,000,000.

(3) The amount up to which authorisation was conferred on the Treasury—

(a) to issue money out of the Consolidated Fund, and

(b) to apply it in the year ending with 31 March 2023 for expenditure authorised by Parliament,

is to be treated as further increased by £71,351,000,000.

(4) The increases for which this section provides are to be treated as having had effect from the beginning of 1 April 2022.

Section 2 Appropriation of supplementary provision for 2022-23

(1) For the purposes of—

(a) appropriating the amount of resources the use of which for the year ending with 31 March 2023 is authorised by section 1 (1) , and

(b) appropriating the amount of money the issue of which out of the Consolidated Fund is authorised by section 1 (3) ,

the Main Estimates Act 2022 is to be treated as having effect with the adjustments provided for in the Schedule to this Act.

(2) The Schedule specifies the amounts by which adjustments are to be treated as made to the amounts originally specified in the Scheduled Estimates in the Main Estimates Act 2022.

(3) An adjustment in the Schedule has effect to increase an amount of authorised expenditure.

(4) Where, in relation to a department, other person or service to which a Scheduled Estimate in the Main Estimates Act 2022 relates, the Schedule contains a new description of matters to which expenditure may relate or from which income may arise, the Schedule has effect for adjusting that Scheduled Estimate by treating the new description as included in it.

(5) In this section, “ Main Estimates Act 2022 ” means the Supply and Appropriation (Main Estimates) Act 2022.

(6) The adjustments made by virtue of this section are to be treated as having had effect from the beginning of 1 April 2022.

Section 3 Short title

This Act may be cited as the Supply and Appropriation (Adjustments) Act 2022.

Section 1

(1) In this Schedule, where an asterisk (*) appears at the beginning of a description of matters to which expenditure may relate, or from which income may arise, the description is a description which was not included in the Schedule to the Supply and Appropriation (Main Estimates) Act 2022 as originally enacted.

(2) Text which follows an asterisk (*) is added by this Schedule.