Third Supplementary Supply and Budget Adjustments (FY 2020) Act 2020

REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE

ACTS SUPPLEMENT

Published by Authority

NO. 31]

Friday, November 6

[2020

The following Act was passed by Parliament on 15 October 2020 and assented to by the President on 2 November 2020:—

Third Supplementary Supply and
Budget Adjustments (FY 2020) Act 2020

(No. 31 of 2020)

I assent.

HALIMAH YACOB,

President.

2 November 2020.

Date of Commencement: 6 November 2020

An Act to make supplementary provision out of the Consolidated Fund to meet additional expenditure for the financial year 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021, and to reduce certain appropriations 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 Third Supplementary Supply and Budget Adjustments (FY 2020) Act 2020.

Interpretation

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires —

“Appropriation Acts”, for FY 2020, means —

(a)	the Supply Act 2020 (Act 10 of 2020);
(b)	the Revised Supplementary Supply (FY 2020) Act 2020 (Act 15 of 2020); and
(c)	the Second Supplementary Supply (FY 2020) Act 2020 (Act 28 of 2020);

“appropriation in aid”, in relation to any Head of Expenditure, means an appropriation in aid of sums earlier authorised by the Appropriation Acts to meet expenditure under that Head;

“FY 2020” means the period starting 1 April 2020 and ending 31 March 2021.

Supplementary supply from Consolidated Fund

3.—(1) The sum of not more than $4,377,469,000 is appropriated for the Heads of Expenditure for the public services specified in Part 1 of the Schedule, and is subject to any reduction in appropriations for expenditure for the same public services that may be made in FY 2020.

(2) A further sum of not more than $1,664,385,100 is authorised to be issued from the Consolidated Fund for FY 2020, after the reductions in section 4 relating to the Consolidated Fund totalling $2,713,083,900 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 Appropriation Acts for FY 2020.

Budget adjustments for prior appropriations

4.—(1) The sums appropriated from the Consolidated Fund and the Development Fund for FY 2020 by the Appropriation Acts 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 $2,713,083,900 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 Appropriation Acts

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 Appropriation Acts for FY 2020 relevant to the Heads of Expenditure concerned; and
(b)	is to have effect as if it had commenced on 1 April 2020.

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

Miscellaneous

6. A reference to a public sector agency in Part 2 of the Schedule includes a reference to the Ministry or Organ of State that was a predecessor to the public sector agency concerned and responsible for the public services, or development purposes, specified in relation to the public sector agency in Part 2 of the Schedule for FY 2020, and in respect of whom the Appropriation Acts for FY 2020 authorised sums to be issued in relation to those public services or development purposes.

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