Payment from the Consolidated Fund, or any other fund or moneys of, or at the disposal of the Government, of advances for expenditure on the activities referred to in section 3 during the financial year, 1969-70
4. Whenever, at any time during the financial year referred to in section 2, the receipts of the Government from any activity specified in column . of the Second Schedule to this Act are insufficient to meet the expenditure incurred by the Government on such activity, the Minister of Finance may from time to time, by Order direct that such sum: as he may deem necessary to meet such expenditure shall be payable, by way of advances, out of the Consolidated Fund of Ceylon, or any other fund or moneys of, or at the disposal of, the Government, so however, that the aggregate of the sums so advanced does not exceed the maximum limit of expenditure specified in the corresponding entry in column II of that Schedule. Any sums so advanced in respect of such activity shall be refunded to that Consolidated Fund in such manner as the Minister of Finance may by Order direct. |