Constitution of Zimbabwe (as amended by Constitution Amendment No. 19) of those sums, under separate votes for the several heads of expenditure approved, to the purposes specified therein. [Subsection as amended by section 26 of Act 11 of 2007 – Amendment No. 18] (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 authorise 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withdrawal from the Consolidated Revenue Fund of moneys for the purpose of meeting that expenditure and any moneys so withdrawn shall be included in supplementary or additional estimates which shall be laid before the House of Assembly on one of the fourteen days on which the House sits next after the authorisation of such withdrawal and, when such estimates have been approved by the House, a supplementary or additional Appropriation Bill shall be introduced into the House providing that the sums so withdrawn shall be charged upon the Consolidated Revenue Fund and that they shall be appropriated, under separate votes for the several heads of expenditure approved, to the purposes specified therein: Provided that the aggregate of all moneys so authorised to be withdrawn shall not at any one time prior to the consequential estimates having been approved by the House of Assembly exceed one and one-half per centum of the total amount appropriated in the last main Appropriation Act. [Subsection as amended by section 26 of Act 11 of 2007 – Amendment No. 18] (5) If in respect of any financial year it is found that any moneys have been expended for any purpose in excess of the amount appropriated to that purpose under this Chapter or for a purpose to which no amount has been appropriated under this Chapter, the Minister for the time being responsible for finance shall cause to be introduced into the House of Assembly on one of the fourteen days on which the House sits next after the extent of the unauthorised expenditure has been established a Bill providing for the condonation of such unauthorised expenditure. [Subsection as amended by section 26 of Act 11 of 2007 – Amendment No. 18] (6) An Act of Parliament may make provision under which, if the Appropriation Act in respect of any financial year has not come into operation by the beginning of that financial year, the President may authorise the withdrawal of moneys from the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the purpose of meeting expenditure necessary to carry on the services of the Government during the period commencing with the beginning of that financial year and expiring four months thereafter or on the coming into operation of the Act, whichever is the earlier: Provided that— (a) the aggregate of all moneys so authorised to be withdrawn shall not exceed one-third of the sums included in the estimates of expenditure for the preceding financial year that have been laid before the House of Assembly; [Paragraph as amended by section 26 of Act 11 of 2007 – Amendment No. 18] - 94 -

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