Supplementary Supply and Budget Adjustments (FY 2021) Act 2021

REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE

ACTS SUPPLEMENT

Published by Authority

NO. 18]

Friday, August 27

[2021

The following Act was passed by Parliament on 27 July 2021 and assented to by the President on 18 August 2021:—

Supplementary Supply and
Budget Adjustments (FY 2021) Act 2021

(No. 18 of 2021)

I assent.

HALIMAH YACOB,

President.

18 August 2021.

Date of Commencement: 24 August 2021

An Act to make supplementary provision out of the Consolidated Fund to meet additional expenditure for the financial year 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022, and to reduce certain appropriations from the Consolidated Fund and Development Fund for that financial year due to exigencies.

Be it enacted by the President with the advice and consent of the Parliament of Singapore, as follows:

Short title

1. This Act is the Supplementary Supply and Budget Adjustments (FY 2021) Act 2021.

Interpretation

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, “FY 2021” means the period starting 1 April 2021 and ending 31 March 2022.

Supplementary supply from Consolidated Fund

3.—(1) A further sum of not more than $1,706,000,000, not otherwise provided for by the Supply Act 2021 (Act 7 of 2021) —

(a)	is appropriated for the Heads of Expenditure for the public services specified in Part 1 of the Schedule; and
(b)	is subject to any reduction in appropriations for expenditure for the same public services that may be made in FY 2021.

(2) A further sum of not more than $1,492,000,000 is authorised to be issued from the Consolidated Fund for FY 2021, after the reductions in section 4 relating to the Consolidated Fund totalling $214,000,000 are applied as appropriations in aid of the Heads of Expenditure for the public services specified in Part 1 of the Schedule.

(3) The further sum authorised to be issued under subsection (2) is in addition to any other sums that have been so authorised by the Supply Act 2021.

Budget adjustments for prior appropriations

4.—(1) The sums appropriated from the Consolidated Fund and the Development Fund for FY 2021 by the Supply Act 2021 for the Heads of Expenditure specified in Part 2 of the Schedule are reduced to the extent provided respectively in that Part.

(2) The reductions under subsection (1) relating to the Consolidated Fund totalling $214,000,000 are to be applied, in the manner directed by the Minister, as appropriations in aid of the Heads of Expenditure for the public services specified in Part 1 of the Schedule.

Effect in relation to Supply Act 2021

5.—(1) This Act (except section 3 and Part 1 of the Schedule) —

(a)	is to be construed as if it formed part of the Supply Act 2021 relevant to the Heads of Expenditure concerned; and
(b)	is to have effect as if it had commenced on 1 April 2021.

(2) This Act is a Supply law for the purposes of sections 12(3) and 17A of the Financial Procedure Act (Cap. 109).

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