1. The Department of Finance and Personnel may issue out of the Consolidated Fund for the service of the year ending on 31st March 2001 the sum of £4,296,588,000.
2.—(1) Subject to subsection (2), the Department of Finance and Personnel may borrow on the credit of the sums specified in section 1 any sum or sums not exceeding in the whole £2,148,294,000.
(2) Any money so borrowed shall be repaid, with any interest due thereon, out of the Consolidated Fund not later than 31st March 2001.
3.—(1) The sum granted by section 1 out of the Consolidated Fund is appropriated for the purposes specified in Schedule 1.
(2) In addition to the sum granted by section 1 out of the Consolidated Fund, the sums specified in the third column of Schedule 1 may be applied as appropriations in aid of the grants for the purposes in connection with which those sums are specified.
4. The enactments mentioned in Schedule 2 are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the second column of that Schedule.
5. This Act may be cited as the Appropriation Act (Northern Ireland) 2000.