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(1)The Department may issue out of the Consolidated Fund and apply to the service of the year ending 31 March 2018 the sum of £16,114,708,000.
(2)That sum is appropriated for the purposes specified in Schedule 1.
(3)The authorisation and appropriations in this section supersede those made by section 1 of the Northern Ireland Budget Act 2017; and, in relation to any amount specified in column 2 of Schedule 1, any increase or decrease by virtue of this section in the amount appropriated is given in brackets after the amount.