Part VI · Procedure in Financial Matters
Article 203 Procedure in Legislature with respect to estimates.
In force
This article separates the two kinds of State spending. Expenditure charged on the Consolidated Fund is discussed but not voted on. All other expenditure goes to the Assembly as demands for grants. The Assembly may assent to a demand or refuse it. No demand can be made except on the Governor's recommendation.
- (1) So much of the estimates as relates to expenditure charged upon the Consolidated Fund of a State shall not be submitted to the vote of the Legislative Assembly, but nothing in this clause shall be construed as preventing the discussion in the Legislature of any of those estimates.
- (2) So much of the said estimates as relates to other expenditure shall be submitted in the form of demands for grants to the Legislative Assembly, and the Legislative Assembly shall have power to assent, or to refuse to assent, to any demand, or to assent to any demand subject to a reduction of the amount specified therein.
- (3) No demand for a grant shall be made except on the recommendation of the Governor.
What it means
Plain words summary of the article above. Not legal advice.
This article separates the two kinds of State spending. Expenditure charged on the Consolidated Fund is discussed but not voted on. All other expenditure goes to the Assembly as demands for grants. The Assembly may assent to a demand or refuse it. No demand can be made except on the Governor's recommendation.