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Article: 124 Supplementary and excess grant

124. Supplementary and excess grant.-If in respect of any financial year it is found-

(a) that the amount authorized to be expended for a particular service for the current financial year is insufficient, or that a need has arisen for expenditure upon some new service not included in the Annual Budget Statement for that year ; or

(b) that any money has been spent on any service during a financial year in excess of the amount granted for that service for that year ;

the Provincial Government shall have power to authorize expenditure from the Provincial Consolidated Fund, whether the expenditure is charged by the
Constitution upon that Fund or not, and shall cause to be laid before the Provincial Assembly a Supplementary Budget Statement or, as the case may be, an Excess Budget Statement, setting out the amount of that expenditure, and the provisions of Article 120 to 123 shall apply to those statements as they apply to the Annual Budget Statement.

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Footnotes:


Comparative Table of Article 124 of the Constitution of Pakistan, 1973

Constitution of Pakistan 1962 :
44
Constitution of Pakistan 1956 :
100
Constitution of India 1950:
205
Government of India Act 1935:
81

Leading & Latest Cases on Article 124 of the Constitution of Pakistan, 1973 :

WASI ZAFAR
SPEAKER PROVINCIAL ASSEMBLY

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