Non-adoption of the

(a) Should the Budget Law fail to be adopted before the Budget Law beginning of the financial year, the following (Amendments Nos. 5, provisions shall apply to continuation budget year: 8,10 and temporary provision & 11 and temporary provision. (1) The Government shall be entitled to spend expenditures, as detailed below: (a) Every month, a sum equal to one twelfth of the permitted government expenditure for the previous year, or of the ceiling of the government expenditure for the previous year, which shall be linked to the rate of the population growth, whichever is lower; (b) Expenditure, which is conditioned on income, in accordance with provisions to be prescribed by law; (c) Expenditure of business enterprises, which operated in the course of the previous financial year, in accordance with provisions to be determined by law; (d) The return of principal debts, which is not the return of debts, as stated, to the National Insurance Institute; (2) The Government shall be entitled to assume commitments within the limits of the sums as detailed below, as long as these commitments shall not increase the expenditure in that year beyond the expenditure sum in the continuation budget: (a) The sum of the authorization to undertake commitments, in accordance with instructions that shall be prescribed by law; (b) The sum of the expenditure in the continuation budget, the sum for expenditure conditioned on income, and the sum for the expenditure of business enterprises, as stated in sub-paragraphs (a) to (c) and (e) of paragraph (1), in accordance with instructions that shall be prescribed by law; (c) A sum left over, that remained in the articles of the budget in the previous Budget Law, in accordance with instructions that shall be prescribed by law. (3) The Government shall be entitled to fill positions, by a number that shall not surpass the number of positions specified in the previous Budget Law. (a1) Expired (a2) Expired (Amendments No. 10 (b) Funds on the basis of clause (a)(1)(a) to (c), shall be and temporary earmarked first of all to fulfilling the State's measure, & No. 11 and commitments by force of laws, contracts and treaties. temporary measure) The remainder shall be used by the Government only to implement vital services, and activities that were included in the previous Budget Law, including those added by means of budgetary changes (in this clause – vital services and previous activities). Government commitments, in accordance with clause (a)(2) shall be only for vital services and previous activities. (Amendments No. 10 (b1) A plan including the expected and planned detailed and temporary government expenditures, according to this article, measure, & No. 11 and shall be laid by the Ministry of Finance on the temporary measure) Government table, and shall be submitted to the Knesset Finance Committee no later than a month from the beginning of the year of the continuation budget. The detailed expenditures of the Ministry of Defense, and the security bodies, shall be laid on the table of the Joint Committee of the Knesset Finance Committee, and Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, as defined in article 18 of the Basis of the Budget Law 5745-1985. The Minister of Finance shall report to the Knesset Finance Committee, once a month, of the Government expenditures, in accordance with the said plan. (c) This article is not to be changed save by a majority of the Knesset Members. (d) In this article – “Government expenditure” – the net government expenditure, including the granting of credit, and less return of principal debts only, as long as it is not return of debts, as stated, to the National Insurance Institute; “Permitted government expenditure”, for a particular financial year – the sum of permitted government expenditure according to the Budget Law for that year, and if a budget law has not been adopted for that year – the sum of the permitted government expenditure according to this Basic Law; “The expenditure sum of the continuation budget” – the total annual sum of the government expenditure as stated in clause (a)(1)(a); “The rate of population growth” – the average rates of population growth in Israel, which was published by the Central Bureau for Statistics in the three years that preceded the year previous to the continuation budget; “Continuation budget year” – a financial year, which until its beginning, no budget law was adopted for that year, and if a budget was adopted during that year – that part of the financial year from the beginning of the year, and until the adoption of the Budget Law as stated; “The ceiling of the government expenditure”, for a particular financial year – the maximal sum of the government expenditure which may be provided, by law, in the Budget Law, less the sum of the government expenditure in that year, which is not taken into account as part of the maximal government expenditure which may be prescribed by law in the Budget Law in the following year.