Budget (Scotland) Act 2009
| Jurisdiction | Scotland |
| Citation | 2009 asp 2 |
so far as the use of resources consists of incurring liability in respect of recoverable VAT, without limit as to amount, andin any other case, up to the amounts specified in the corresponding entries in column 2.(2) Accruing resources of the types specified in column 3 of schedule 1 may, in financial year 2009/10, be used by the Scottish Administration for the purposes specified in the corresponding entries in column 1 up to the amounts specified in column 4.(3) Accruing resources in respect of recoverable VAT may, in financial year 2009/10, be used, without limit as to amount, by the Scottish Administration for any purpose for which resources are authorised to be used by virtue of subsection (1) .(4) Accruing resources of the types specified in column 1 of each Part of schedule 2 may, in financial year 2009/10, be used by the Scottish Administration for the purposes specified in the corresponding entries in column 2 up to the overall amount specified at the end of that Part.(5) Accruing resources authorised to be used by virtue of subsection (3) or (4) may be so used only through the part of the Scottish Administration through which they accrue.(6) The Parts of schedule 2 set out the types of accruing resources, purposes and overall amounts by reference to the parts of the Scottish Administration through which the resources accrue and may be used.(7) In this section, references to recoverable VAT are to value added tax in respect of which a claim for a refund may be made by the Scottish Administration under section 41(3) of the Value Added Tax Act 1994 (c. 23) .so far as the use of resources consists of incurring liability in respect of recoverable VAT, without limit as to amount, andin any other case, up to the amounts specified in the corresponding entries in column 2.(2) Accruing resources of the types specified in column 3 of schedule 3 may, in financial year 2009/10, be used by those bodies for the purposes specified in the corresponding entries in column 1 up to the amounts specified in column 4.(3) Accruing resources in respect of recoverable VAT may, in financial year 2009/10, be used, without limit as to amount, by any direct-funded body mentioned in column 1 of schedule 3 for any purpose for which resources are authorised to be used by that body by virtue of subsection (1) .(4) Accruing resources of the types specified in column 1 of each Part of schedule 4 may, in financial year 2009/10, be used by the direct-funded body to which that Part relates for the purposes specified in the corresponding entries in column 2 up to the overall amount specified at the end of that Part.(5) In this section, references to recoverable VAT are to value added tax in respect of which a claim for a refund may be made by the direct-funded body concerned under section 41(3) of the Value Added Tax Act 1994 (c. 23) .(a) in relation to the Scottish Administration, F6£30,894,997,000,(b) in relation to the Forestry Commissioners, F7£66,950,000,(c) in relation to the Food Standards Agency, F10£10,400,000,(d) in relation to the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body, F8£81,765,000,(e) in relation to Audit Scotland, F9£7,327,000.(1) This section applies where, in financial year 2009/10, it is proposed to pay out of the Scottish Consolidated Fund under section 65(1) (c) of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46) , for or in connection with expenditure of the Scottish Administration or a direct-funded body, a sum which does not fall within the overall cash authorisation specified in section 3 in relation to the Scottish Administration or, as the case may be, that body.(2) The sum may be paid out of the Fund only if its payment is authorised by the Scottish Ministers.the payment is necessarily required in the public interest to meet urgent expenditure for a purpose falling within section 65(2) of the Scotland Act 1998, andit is not reasonably practicable, for reasons of urgency, to amend the overall cash authorisation by an order under section 7 of this Act.(4) But the Scottish Ministers must not authorise payment of the sum if it would result in an excess of sums paid out of the Fund over sums paid into the Fund.(5) The aggregate amount of the sums which the Scottish Ministers may authorise to be paid out of the Fund under this section must not exceed £50,000,000.(6) Where the Scottish Ministers authorise a payment under this section they must, as soon as possible, lay before the Scottish Parliament a report setting out the circumstances of the authorisation and why they considered it to be necessary.In schedule 5, the amounts set out in column 2 are the amounts specified for financial year 2009/10 for the purposes of the enactments listed in the corresponding entries in column 1 (which make provision as to the net borrowing of the bodies mentioned in that column) .
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