Appropriation Act 2003 (repealed)

Current text a fecha 2003-07-10

Use of resources for the year ending with 31st March 2004

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The use of resources for the service of the year ending with 31st March 2004 is authorised to the amount of £203,154,789,000.

Issue out of the Consolidated Fund for the year ending with 31st March 2004

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The Treasury may issue out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom and apply to the service of the year ending with 31st March 2004 the sum of £172,371,769,000.

Appropriation of amounts and sums voted for supply services and limits on appropriations in aid

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(1) All the amounts and sums authorised by this Act and the other Acts mentioned in Schedule 1 to this Act, totalling, as is shown in the said Schedule, £389,429,828,617.37 in amounts of resources authorised for use and £320,543,689,750.09 in sums authorised for issue from the Consolidated Fund, are appropriated, and shall be deemed to have been appropriated as from the date of the passing of the Acts mentioned in the said Schedule 1, for the services and purposes specified in Schedule 2 to this Act.

(2) Part 1 of Schedule 2 also sets out modifications of the limits set for the purposes of section 2 of the Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000 on the resources applicable as appropriations in aid for the year that ended with 31st March 2002.

(3) Part 2 of Schedule 2 also sets out modifications of the limits set for the purposes of section 2 of the Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000 on the resources applicable as appropriations in aid for the year that ended with 31st March 2003, for the services and purposes specified in that Part of that Schedule.

(4) Part 3 of Schedule 2 also sets out the limits for the purposes of section 2 of the Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000 on the resources applicable as appropriations in aid for the year that ended with 31st March 2003, for the services and purposes specified in that Part of that Schedule.

(5) Parts 4 to 61 of Schedule 2 also set out the limits for the purposes of section 2 of the Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000 on the resources applicable as appropriations in aid for the year ending with 31st March 2004, for the services and purposes specified in those Parts of that Schedule.

(6) The limits as modified by Part 1 of Schedule 2 shall be deemed to have been in force from 8th March 2003.

(7) The limits as modified by Part 2 and those set out in Part 3 of Schedule 2 shall be deemed to have been in force from 27th November 2002.

(8) Subsection (7), so far as it relates to—

(a) a reduction set out in the Table in Part 2 of Schedule 2, or

(b) a modification so set out which, according to a note to that Part, comprises a reduction,

does not affect the validity of anything to which subsection (9) applies.

(9) This subsection applies to anything done in accordance with a direction given by the Treasury for the purposes of section 2 of the Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000 during the year that ended with 31st March 2003 if (disregarding subsection (7)) —

(a) at the time it was done the direction complied with the limit set under a previous Appropriation Act, or

(b) that direction would have complied with the limit then in force if that limit had been been increased as mentioned in the note in question for the period ending with 27th February 2003.

(10) The limits set out in Parts 4 to 61 of Schedule 2 shall be deemed to have been in force from 6th May 2003.

(11) A direction given after the passing of this Act by the Treasury for authorising the application of resources as appropriations in aid for a particular year—

(a) may, to the extent of any excess proposed in Estimates or in a Statement of Excesses laid before the House of Commons, authorise appropriations in aid in excess of the relevant limit set for that year for the purposes of section 2 of the Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000 by this Act or a previous Appropriation Act; but

(b) where the limit so set has not, by 12th August following the giving of the direction, been increased by a subsequent Appropriation Act or has by that date been so increased by less than the excess, shall be deemed to have authorised appropriations in aid only up to that limit or, as the case may be, up to that limit as so increased.

(12) The abstracts of Schedule 1 and of Schedule 2 which are annexed to this Act shall have effect as part of this Act.

Repeals

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The enactments mentioned in Schedule 3 are hereby repealed.

Short title

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This Act may be cited as the Appropriation Act 2003.

ABSTRACT OF SCHEDULE 1

ABSTRACT OF SCHEDULE 2

SCHEDULE 1

SCHEDULE 2

Part 1 — Excesses, 2001–02

Table of the resources authorised for use, the sums authorised for issue out of the Consolidated Fund and the modifications of the limits set, for the purposes of section 2 of the Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000, on the resources applicable as appropriations in aid to make good excesses incurred in meeting the costs of the defence and civil services which are specified in the first column of the Table, for the year that ended with 31st March 2002.

Part 2 — Supplementary, 2002–03

Table of the supplementary resources authorised for use, the supplementary sums authorised for issue out of the Consolidated Fund, and the modifications of the limits set, for the purposes of section 2 of the Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000, on the resources applicable as appropriations in aid to meet the costs of the services and purposes which are specified in the first column of the Table, for the year that ended with 31st March 2003.

Part 3 — New Estimate, 2002–03

Table of the resources authorised for use, the sums authorised for issue out of the Consolidated Fund, and the limits set, for the purposes of section 2 of the Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000, on the resources applicable as appropriations in aid to meet the costs of the services and purposes which are specified in the first column of the Table, for the year that ended with 31st March 2003.

Part 4 — Department for Education and Skills, 2003–04

Part 5 — Teachers' Pension Scheme, 2003–04

Part 6 — Office of Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Schools in England, 2003–04

Part 7 — Department of Health, 2003–04

Appropriation Act 2003 (repealed)

Use of resources for the year ending with 31st March 2004

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Issue out of the Consolidated Fund for the year ending with 31st March 2004

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Appropriation of amounts and sums voted for supply services and limits on appropriations in aid

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Repeals

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Short title

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ABSTRACT OF SCHEDULE 1

ABSTRACT OF SCHEDULE 2

SCHEDULE 1

SCHEDULE 2

Part 1 — Excesses, 2001–02

Part 2 — Supplementary, 2002–03

Part 3 — New Estimate, 2002–03

Part 4 — Department for Education and Skills, 2003–04

Part 5 — Teachers' Pension Scheme, 2003–04

Part 6 — Office of Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Schools in England, 2003–04

Part 7 — Department of Health, 2003–04

Part 8 — National Health Service Pension Scheme, 2003–04

Part 9 — Food Standards Agency, 2003–04

Part 10 — Department for Transport, 2003–04

Part 11 — Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, 2003–04

Part 12 — Office of the Rail Regulator, 2003–04

Part 13 — Home Office, 2003–04

Part 14 — Assets Recovery Agency, 2003–04

Part 15 — Charity Commission, 2003–04

Part 16 — Lord Chancellor’s Department, 2003–04

Part 17 — Lord Chancellor’s Department: Judicial Pensions Scheme, 2003–04

Part 18 — Northern Ireland Court Service, 2003–04

Part 19 — The National Archives: Public Record Office and Historical Manuscripts Commission, 2003–04

Part 20 — The Crown Prosecution Service, 2003–04

Part 21 — Serious Fraud Office, 2003–04

Part 22 — HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor, 2003–04

Part 23 — Ministry of Defence, 2003–04

Part 24 — Armed Forces Retired Pay, Pensions etc, 2003–04

Part 25 — Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 2003–04

Part 26 — Department for International Development, 2003–04

Part 27 — Department for International Development: Overseas Superannuation, 2003–04

Part 28 — Department of Trade and Industry, 2003–04

Part 29 — British Trade International, 2003–04

Part 30 — Department of Trade and Industry United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority superannuation Schemes, 2003–04

Part 31 — Export Credits Guarantee Department, 2003–04

Part 32 — Office of Fair Trading, 2003–04

Part 33 — Office of Telecommunications, 2003–04,

Part 34 — Office of Gas and Electricity Markets, 2003–04

Part 35 — Postal Services Commission, 2003–04

Part 36 — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, 2003–04

Part 37 — Forestry Commission, 2003–04

Part 38 — Office of Water Services, 2003–04

Part 39 — Department for Culture, Media and Sport, 2003–04

Part 40 — Department for Work and Pensions, 2003–04

Part 41 — Scotland Office, 2003–04

Part 42 — Wales Office, 2003–04

Part 43 — Northern Ireland Office, 2003–04

Part 44 — HM Treasury, 2003–04

Part 45 — HM Customs and Excise, 2003–04

Part 46 — Inland Revenue, 2003–04

Part 47 — National Savings and Investments, 2003–04

Part 48 — Office for National Statistics, 2003–04

Part 49 — Government Actuary’s Department, 2003–04

Part 50 — Crown Estate Office, 2003–04

Part 51 — Cabinet Office, 2003–04

Part 52 — Security and Intelligence Agencies, 2003–04

Part 53 — Cabinet Office: Civil superannuation, 2003–04

Part 54 — Central Office of Information, 2003–04

Part 55 — Privy Council Office, 2003–04

Part 56 — Office of the Parliamentary Commissioner and Health Service Commissioner for England, 2003–04

Part 57 — House of Lords, 2003–04

Part 58 — House of Commons: Members, 2003–04

Part 59 — House of Commons: Administration, 2003–04

Part 60 — National Audit Office, 2003–04

Part 61 — Electoral Commission, 2003–04

SCHEDULE 3

Use of resources for the year ending with 31st March 2004

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