Section 72: Authorisation of expenditure from Consolidated Revenue Fund.

(1) The Governor shall cause to be prepared and laid before the House of Assembly not later than 60 days before the expiration of each financial year estimates of the revenue and expenditure of the State for the following year.
(2) The heads of expenditure contained in the estimates, other than expenditure charged upon the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the State by this Act, shall be included in a bill to be known as an Appropriation Bill, providing for the issue from the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the State of the sums necessary to meet that expenditure and the appropriation of those sums for the purpose specified therein.
(3) If in respect of any financial year it is found -
(a) that the amount appropriated by the Appropriation Law for any purpose is sufficient ; or
(b) that a need has arisen for expenditure for a purpose for which no amount has been appropriated by the Law, a supplementary estimate showing the sums required shall be laid before the House of Assembly and the Heads of any such expenditure shall be included in a Supplementary Appropriation Bill.
(4) If the Appropriation Bill in respect of any financial year has not been passed into Law by the beginning of the financial year, the Governor may authorise the withdrawal of moneys from the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the State for the purpose of meeting expenditure necessary to carry on the services of the government for a period not exceeding 3 months or until the coming into operation of the Appropriation Law, whichever is the earlier:
Provided that the withdrawal in respect of any such period shall not exceed the amount authorised to be withdrawn from the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the State under the provisions of the Appropriation Law passed by the House of Assembly for the corresponding period in the immediately preceding financial year, being an amount proportionate to the total amount so authorised for the immediately preceding year.