No: 7 Dated: Mar, 29 2023

Jammu and Kashmir Appropriation Act, 2023

An Act to authorise payment and appropriation of certain further sums from and out of the Consolidated Fund of the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir for the services of the financial year 2022-23.

BE it enacted by Parliament in the Seventy-fourth Year of the Republic of India, in exercise of powers vested under the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019 as follows:-

1. This Act may be called the Jammu and Kashmir Appropriation Act, 2023.

2. From and out of the Consolidated Fund of the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, 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 three thousand seven hundred eleven crore, seventy-one lakh and seventy-six thousand rupees towards defraying the several charges which will come in course of payment during the financial year 2022-23 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 the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir by this Act shall be appropriated for the services and purposes expressed in the Schedule in relation to the said year.