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PART 2
CONSOLIDATED REVENUE FUND
17.5 Consolidated Revenue Fund
There is a Consolidated Revenue Fund into which must be paid all fees, taxes and
borrowings and all other revenues of the Government, whatever their source, unless an Act of
Parliament—
(a) requires or permits them to be paid into some other fund established for a specific
purpose; or
(b) permits the authority that received them to retain them, or part of them, in order to
meet the authority’s expenses.
17.6 Withdrawals from Consolidated Revenue Fund
(1) No money may be withdrawn from the Consolidated Revenue Fund except to meet
expenditure authorised by this Constitution or by an Act of Parliament.
(2) Money withdrawn from the Consolidated Revenue Fund must be paid only to the person
to whom the payment is due.
(3) An Act of Parliament must prescribe the way in which—
(a) withdrawals are to be made from the Consolidated Revenue Fund and any other public
fund; and
(b) money in the Consolidated Revenue Fund and any other fund is to be held and
invested.
17.7 Charges upon Consolidated Revenue Fund
(1) All debt charges for which the State is liable must be charged upon the Consolidated
Revenue Fund.
(2) The costs and expenses incurred in collecting and managing the Consolidated Revenue
Fund form the first charge on the Fund.
(3) For the purposes of subsection (1)—
―debt charges‖ includes interest, sinking fund charges, the repayment or amortisation of
debt and all expenditure related to the raising of loans on the security of the
Consolidated Revenue Fund and the service and redemption of debt created by those
loans.
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