The Department of Finance and Personnel may issue out of the Consolidated Fund and apply to the service of the year ending 31st March 2009 the sum of £12,485,717,000.

That sum is appropriated for the purposes specified in Schedule 1.

The authorisation and appropriations in this section supersede those in section 4 of the Budget Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 (c. 3) and section 1 of the Budget (No. 2) Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 (c. 11); and, in relation to any amount specified in column 2 of Schedule 1, any increase or decrease by virtue of this section in the aggregate amount appropriated by those provisions is given in brackets after the amount.