The Constitution of India
Votes on account, votes of credit and exceptional grants
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Official sourceanything in the foregoing provisions of this Chapter, the House of the People shall have
power—
(a) to make any grant in advance in respect of the estimated expenditure for a part
of any financial year pending the completion of the procedure prescribed in article 113
for the voting of such grant and the passing of the law in accordance with the
provisions of article 114 in relation to that expenditure;
(b) to make a grant for meeting an unexpected demand upon the resources of
India when on account of the magnitude or the indefinite character of the service the
demand cannot be stated with the details ordinarily given in an annual financial
statement;
(c) to make an exceptional grant which forms no part of the current service of any
financial year;
and Parliament shall have power to authorise by law the withdrawal of moneys from the
Consolidated Fund of India for the purposes for which the said grants are made.
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56 THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA
(Part V. — The Union)
(2) The provisions of articles 113 and 114 shall have effect in relation to the making of
any grant under clause (1) and to any law to be made under that clause as they have effect in
relation to the making of a grant with regard to any expenditure mentioned in the annual
financial statement and the law to be made for the authorisation of appropriation of moneys
out of the Consolidated Fund of India to meet such expenditure.
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