This section authorises the use of resources amounting to £15,567,071,000 for 2009-2010 for the purposes specified in column 1 of Schedule 2.
Sub-section (4) provides authority for the resource limits set by the Budget Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 and the Budget (No. 2) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 to be superseded by the amounts specified in column 2 of Schedule 2 to the Budget Act (Northern Ireland) 2010.