FOURTH   REPUBLIC

                               ACT   808 .                                                                                    

                   ACT

OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF GHANA

                ENTITLED

APPROPRIATION ACT, 2011

AN ACT to provide for the withdrawal of sums of money necessary to meet government expenditure for the 2011 financial year from the Consolidated Fund and from other funds and to provide for related matters.

DATE OF ASSENT:

PASSED by Parliament and assented to by the President.

Sum of money to be issued from the Consolidated Fund for 2011 financial year.

1. Pursuant to Article 179(2) (a) of the Constitution a sum of money not exceeding Twelve Billion, Six Hundred and Seventy Million, Seven Hundred and Sixty Four Thousand, Eighty-Five Ghana Cedis (GH¢12,670,764,085.00) shall be issued from the Consolidated Fund during the Financial year commencing on the 1st day of January and ending on the 31st day of December, 2011 and shall be appropriated for the purposes specified in the First Schedule.

Internally Generated Fund

2. That the Ministries, Departments, and Agencies listed in the first column of the Second Schedule be permitted to retain and use an amount of Eight Hundred and Nineteen Million, Three Hundred and Forty-Six Thousand, Six Hundred and Eighty Nine Ghana Cedis (GH¢819,346,689.00) indicated in the second column of the Second Schedule being a part of the total amount specified in section 1 of this Act during the Financial year commencing on the 1st day of January and ending on the 31st day of December, 2011.

Social Intervention Programmes

3. A sum of money not exceeding Three Hundred and Fifty-Four Million, Two Hundred and Six Thousand Ghana Cedis (GH¢354,206,000.00) of District Assemblies Common Fund, Ghana Education Trust Fund and National Health Insurance Fund, being part of the total amount specified in section 1 of this Act shall be utilised during the Financial year commencing 1st January and ending on 31st December, 2011 for Social Intervention Programmes.

Payment of money on authorisation of Minister for Finance and Economic planning

4. The Controller and Accountant-General may, on a warrant issued on the authority of the Minister responsible for Finance and Economic Planning, payout of the Consolidated Fund during the financial year ending on the 31st day of December, 2011 any sum not exceeding on the whole the sum of Twelve Billion, Six Hundred and Seventy Million, Seven Hundred and Sixty Four Thousand, Eighty-Five Ghana Cedis (GH¢12,670,764,085.00) referred to in Sec­tion 1 of this Act.

Commencement

5. This Act shall come into force on the 1st day of January, 2011.

Repeal