Appropriation Act, 2023

No: 4 Dated: Mar, 29 2023

Appropriation Act, 2023

An Act to authorise payment and appropriation of certain sums from and out of the Consolidated Fund of India for the services of the financial year 2023-24.

BE it enacted by Parliament in the Seventy-fourth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-

1. This Act may be called the Appropriation Act, 2023.

2. From and out of the Consolidated Fund of India there may be paid and applied sums not exceeding those specified in column 3 of the Schedule amounting in the aggregate to the sum of one hundred forty-four lakh twenty-seven thousand one hundred forty-eight crore and sixteen lakh rupees towards defraying the several charges which will come in course of payment during the financial year 2023-24 in respect of the services specified in column 2 of the Schedule.

3. The sums authorised to be paid and applied from and out of the Consolidated Fund of India by this Act shall be appropriated for the services and purposes expressed in the Schedule in relation to the said year.

4. Reference to the Ministries or Departments in the Schedule are to such Ministries or Departments as existing immediately before the 6th September, 2021 and shall, on or after that date, be construed as references to the appropriate Ministries or Departments as constituted from time to time.