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🇵🇬 Papua New GuineaConstitution

Constitution as amended by the 2025 Christian Country amendment

212

Jurisdiction
Papua New Guinea
Provision
212
Source language
English
Recorded status
in force
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Recorded status
in force

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212. Revenue and expenditure without prior approval. (1) If at the beginning of a fiscal year the Parliament has not made provision for public expenditure by the National Executive or expenditure by the Parliament or the Judiciary for their respective services for that year, the National Executive, the Parli ament or the Judiciary, as the case maybe , may, without authorization other than this section but in accordance with an Act of the Parliament , expend amounts appropriated out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the purpose not exceeding in total one-third of its respective budgeted expenditure during the immediately preceding fiscal year . (2) The authority conferred by Subsection (1) lapses when the Parliament PNG National Legislation This is an official copy of the Legislation of PNG has made provision for the public expenditure for the fiscal year in question, and any amounts expended by virtue of that subsection are a charge against the expenditure so provided f or and shall be properly brought to account accordingly. Subdivision B.—The Auditor-General.

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Constitution as amended by the 2025 Christian Country amendment · faolex.fao.org · Retrieved 18 August 2026.

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