Public Finances (Administration) (Amendment No. 9) (Jersey) Law 2000

Jersey Law 10/2000 PUBLIC FINANCES (ADMINISTRATION) (AMENDMENT No. 9) (JERSEY) LAW 2000 ___________ A LAW to amend further the Public Finances (Administration) (Jersey) Law 1967; sanctioned by Order of Her Majesty in Council of the 15th day of MARCH 2000 ___________ (Registered on the 31st day of March 2000) ___________ STATES OF JERSEY ___________ The 1st day of December 1999 ___________ T HE STATES, subject to the sanction of Her Most Excellent Majesty in Council, have adopted the following Law – ARTICLE 1 For paragraphs (1) and (2) of Article 15 of the Public Finances (Administration) (Jersey) Law 1967, 1 as amended 2 (hereinafter referred to as “the principal Law”), there shall be substituted the following paragraphs – “(1) Every Committee of the States shall produce estimates for the next financial year and for such number of subsequent financial years as the code of directions may specify of – (a) the revenue expenditure and income, if any, of such Committee; (b) the capital expenditure and capital receipts, if any, of such Committee; and (c) the transactions of each trading fund. (2) The estimates shall comprise such number of items of expenditure and income or receipts, as the case may be, as the code of directions may specify. (2A) The estimates shall be sent to the Finance and Economics Committee (and to the Policy and Resources Committee if the code of directions so requires) by such date in each year as the code of directions may specify.”. ARTICLE 2 In Article 16 of the principal Law 3 – (a) at the beginning of clause (ii) of sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (3) there shall be inserted the words “subject to paragraph (3A) of this Article,”; (b) For paragraph (4) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs – “(3A) Where the States have previously debated and voted in favour of the amount of any item in the estimate of capital expenditure for the next financial year of any Committee of the States, the States shall, when taking the Budget into consideration – (a) allow the amount of such item without amendment (save for any funds advanced for professional fees); or (b) allow the amount of such item as amended by a proposition, and paragraph (1) of Article 24 of the States of Jersey Law 1966, as amended, shall apply to such a proposition. (4) No item shall be included in the estimates of capital expenditure to be considered during the Budget unless, prior to the thirty first of July (or such other date as may be prescribed) in the year preceding the year to which that Budget relates, the States have debated the proposal to which the expenditure relates and voted in favour of its inclusion in such estimates for the next financial year.”; and (c) in paragraph (8) for the words “paragraph (3) of this Article” there shall be substituted the words “paragraph (3) or (3A) of this Article, subject to Article 19 of this Law”. ARTICLE 3 This Law may be cited as the Public Finances (Administration) (Amendment No. 9) (Jersey) Law 2000. G.H.C. COPPOCK Greffier of the States. 1 Volume 1966–1967, page 599. 2 Volume 1990–1991, pages 402 and 549. 3 Volume 1966–1967, page 600, Volume 1979–1981, page 330, Volume 1990–1991, pages 402 and 549, Volume 1992–1993, page 448, and Volume 1996–1997, page 292.