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Apr 25, 2014 News
The 2014 Appropriation Bill, which is essentially the Budget, is expected to be forwarded today to the President for his assent.
This is according to a senior official at the National Assembly, who yesterday confirmed that the Bill had not been sent off to the Head of State, given that up to yesterday it was at the National Printers.
According to the official, the Bill was with the National Assembly and the law-making body took some time to put in the amendments before sending it off to the printers. The amendments would have to reflect the more than $37B cut from various ministries by the political opposition during the consideration of the Estimates.
It is expected to be completed tomorrow, according to the official, who said that it would be immediately sent to Office of the President for assent, after which it will be published in the Official Gazette.
Bills are no longer sent to the Office of the Attorney General, resulting from the fact that Speaker of the National Assembly, Raphael Trotman, had worked out a mechanism where the Bills approved by the House are sent directly to the Office of the President for assent.
It was Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr Roger Luncheon, who told media operatives on Wednesday last, that the Appropriation Bill which was approved more than a week ago was yet to reach President Donald Ramotar’s desk.
He said that the Appropriation Bill is constitutionally due, at the latest, the end of the fourth month of the fiscal; that is the end of April.
According to Dr Luncheon, the opposition selectively did not approve funding and essentially determined the outcome of the provisions of the 2014 Appropriation Bill.
“The 2014 Appropriation Bill makes no provision, no funding for many Government sectors and entities…The opposition option essentially resorted to that extreme and that is the non-approval of and zero appropriation for those programmes.”
Luncheon at the time of his pronouncement was adamant that the constitutional mandate of the elected Executive Government to govern cannot be discharged without adequate financing.
“We all know it pays to run governments.”
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