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RestrictStartDate="2020-05-06"><Number><Strong>Part 5</Strong></Number><Title>Finance</Title><Pblock DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/32/part/5/crossheading/expenditure" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2006/32/part/5/crossheading/expenditure" NumberOfProvisions="9" RestrictStartDate="2020-05-06" RestrictExtent="E+W+S+N.I." id="part-5-crossheading-expenditure"><Title><Emphasis>Expenditure</Emphasis></Title><P1group RestrictStartDate="2020-05-06" RestrictExtent="E+W+S+N.I."><Title><CommentaryRef Ref="c16542931"/>Appropriation without Budget resolution</Title><P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/32/section/127" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2006/32/section/127" id="section-127"><Pnumber PuncAfter="">127</Pnumber><P1para><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/32/section/127/1" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2006/32/section/127/1" id="section-127-1"><Pnumber>1</Pnumber><P2para><Text>If a Budget resolution for a financial year is not passed before the beginning of the financial year, the following are deemed to have been authorised by a Budget resolution of the  <Substitution ChangeId="key-60edd79c70d763519861630d1afb7962-1594841567155" CommentaryRef="key-60edd79c70d763519861630d1afb7962">Senedd</Substitution>  for that year—</Text><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/32/section/127/1/a" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2006/32/section/127/1/a" id="section-127-1-a"><Pnumber>a</Pnumber><P3para><Text>the use in the year for any service or purpose of the relevant percentage of the amount of the resources authorised to be used in the preceding financial year for the service or purpose,</Text></P3para></P3><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/32/section/127/1/b" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2006/32/section/127/1/b" id="section-127-1-b"><Pnumber>b</Pnumber><P3para><Text>the retention in the year for use for any service or purpose of the relevant percentage of the amount of the resources authorised to be retained in the previous financial year for use for the service or purpose, and</Text></P3para></P3><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/32/section/127/1/c" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2006/32/section/127/1/c" id="section-127-1-c"><Pnumber>c</Pnumber><P3para><Text>the payment out of the Welsh Consolidated Fund in the year for any service or purpose of the relevant percentage of the amount authorised to be paid out of the Fund in the previous financial year for the service or purpose.</Text></P3para></P3></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/32/section/127/2" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2006/32/section/127/2" id="section-127-2"><Pnumber>2</Pnumber><P2para><Text>“The relevant percentage” is—</Text><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/32/section/127/2/a" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2006/32/section/127/2/a" id="section-127-2-a"><Pnumber>a</Pnumber><P3para><Text>where a Budget resolution for the financial year is not passed before the end of July in the financial year, 95%, and</Text></P3para></P3><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/32/section/127/2/b" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2006/32/section/127/2/b" id="section-127-2-b"><Pnumber>b</Pnumber><P3para><Text>otherwise, 75%.</Text></P3para></P3></P2para></P2></P1para></P1></P1group></Pblock></Part></Body></Primary><Commentaries><Commentary id="c16542931" Type="I"><Para><Text>This provision in force immediately after "the 2007 election" by s. 161(1) (subject to s. 161(4)(5))</Text></Para></Commentary><Commentary id="key-60edd79c70d763519861630d1afb7962" Type="F"><Para><Text>Words in Act substituted (6.5.2020) by <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/anaw/2020/1" id="cuttxnep3-00103" Class="WelshNationalAssemblyAct" Year="2020" Number="1" Title="Senedd and Elections (Wales) Act 2020">Senedd and Elections (Wales) Act 2020 (anaw 1)</Citation>, <CitationSubRef CitationRef="cuttxnep3-00103" id="cc00028" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/anaw/2020/1/section/42/2" SectionRef="section-42-2" Operative="false">s. 42(2)</CitationSubRef>, <CitationSubRef CitationRef="cuttxnep3-00103" id="cuttxnep3-00104" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/anaw/2020/1/schedule/1/paragraph/2/19" SectionRef="schedule-1-paragraph-2-19" Operative="true">Sch. 1 para. 2(19)</CitationSubRef> (with <CitationSubRef CitationRef="cuttxnep3-00103" id="cuttxnep3-00105" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/anaw/2020/1/schedule/1/paragraph/2/11" UpTo="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/anaw/2020/1/schedule/1/paragraph/2/14" StartSectionRef="schedule-1-paragraph-2-11" EndSectionRef="schedule-1-paragraph-2-14">Sch. 1 para. 2(11)-(14)</CitationSubRef>)</Text></Para></Commentary></Commentaries></Legislation>