PRESIDENT’S ASSENT TO TWO BILLS

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The President has given his assent to the Appropriation (No.4) Bill, 2002 and the Appropriation (No.5) Bill, 2002. With this, the two Bills have been notified in the Gazette of India as Act Nos. 46 and 47 respectively of the year 2002. The two Appropriation Bills were passed by the Lok Sabha and could not be taken up for their return by the Rajya Sabha as the proceedings of the Houses of Parliament were disrupted and the Monsoon Session of the Parliament adjourned sine die, before the schedule, in the forenoon of August 12, 2002. Since these two Bills were money bills, their passage by the Lok Sabha alone was sufficient under the provisions of the Constitution.

The Appropriation (No.4) Act, 2002, seeks to provide for the appropriation out of the Consolidated Fund of India of the moneys required to meet the expenditure incurred in access of the grants made by the Lok Sabha for expenditure of the Central Government, excluding railways, for the financial year ended on March 31, 2000.

The Appropriation (No.5) Act, 2002, seeks to provide for the appropriation out of the Consolidated Fund of India of the moneys required to meet the supplementary expenditure charged on the Consolidated Fund of India and the grants made by the Lok Sabha for expenditure of the Central Government, excluding railways, for the financial year 2002-2003.