CONSTITUTION OF ZIMBABWE as amended by Amendment No. 17 (4) An Act of Parliament may prescribe the manner in which withdrawals may be made from the Consolidated Revenue Fund or any other public fund. (5) The investment of moneys forming part of the Consolidated Revenue Fund shall be made in such manner as may be prescribed by or under an Act of Parliament. (6) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1), provision may be made by or under an Act of Parliament authorizing withdrawals to be made from the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the purpose of making repayable advances. 103 Authorization of expenditure from Consolidated Revenue Fund (1) The Minister for the time being responsible for finance shall cause to be prepared and laid before the House of Assembly, on a day on which the House sits, before or not later than thirty days after the start of each financial year estimates of the revenue and expenditure of Zimbabwe for that financial year: Provided that if, by reason of the prorogation or dissolution of Parliament, the provisions of this subsection cannot be complied with, the estimates of the revenue and expenditure shall be laid before the House of Assembly, on a day on which the House sits not later than thirty days after the date on which the House first meets after that prorogation or dissolution. (2) When the estimates of expenditure, other than expenditure charged upon the Consolidated Revenue Fund by this Constitution or an Act of Parliament, have been approved by Parliament, a Bill, to be known as an Appropriation Bill, shall be introduced into Parliament providing for the issue from the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the sums necessary to meet that expenditure and the appropriation of those sums, under separate votes for the several heads of expenditure approved, to the purposes specified therein. (3) If in respect of any financial year it is found that the amount appropriated by the Appropriation Act to any purpose is insufficient or that a need has arisen for expenditure for a purpose to which no amount has been appropriated by that Act, a supplementary estimate showing the sums required shall be laid before Parliament and, when such estimates have been approved by Parliament, a supplementary Appropriation Bill shall be introduced into Parliament providing for the issue of such sums from the Consolidated Revenue Fund and the appropriation of those sums, under separate votes for the several heads of expenditure approved, to the purposes specified therein. (4) An Act of Parliament may make provision for the President, where he is satisfied that there is an urgent need for expenditure which was unforeseen or the extent of which was unforeseen and for which no other provision exists, to authorize the withdrawal from the Consolidated Revenue Fund of moneys for the purpose of meeting that expenditure and any moneys so withdrawn shall be included in supplementary or additional estimates which shall be laid before Parliament on one of the fourteen days on which Parliament sits next after the authorization of such withdrawal and, when such estimates have been approved by Parliament, a supplementary or additional Appropriation Bill shall be introduced into Parliament providing that the sums so withdrawn shall be charged upon the Consolidated Revenue Fund and that they shall be appropriated, under separate votes for the several heads of expenditure approved, to the purposes specified therein: Provided that the aggregate of all moneys so authorized to be withdrawn shall not at any one time prior to the consequential estimates having been approved by Parliament exceed one and one-half per centum of the total amount appropriated in the last main Appropriation Act. Consolidation 81 1st October, 2005