PART V THE UNION CHAPTER II.- PARLIAMENT Procedure in Financial Matters
116. Votes on account, votes of credit and exceptional
grants.- (1) Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing provisions of this Chapter, the
House of the People shall have power- (a) to make any grant in advance in respect of the
estimated expenditure for a part of any financial year pending the completion of the
procedure prescribed in article 113 for the voting of such grant and the passing of the
law in accordance with the provisions of article 114 in relation to that expenditure; (b)
to make a grant for meeting an unexpected demand upon the resources of India when on
account of the magnitude or the indefinite character of the service the demand cannot be
stated with the details ordinarily given in an annual financial statement; (c) to make an
exceptional grant which forms no part of the current service of any financial year; and
Parliament shall have power to authorise by law the withdrawal of moneys from the
Consolidated Fund of India for the purposes for which the said grants are made. (2) The
provisions of articles 113 and 114 shall have effect in relation to the making of any
grant under clause (1) and to any law to be made under that clause as they have effect in
relation to the making of a grant with regard to any expenditure mentioned in the annual
financial statement and the law to be made for the authorisation of appropriation of
moneys out of the Consolidated Fund of India to meet such expenditure. |