18GAmount of dividend is to be appropriated for Mersey Community Hospital

18G Amount of dividend is to be appropriated for Mersey Community Hospital

[Section 18G Inserted by No. 25 of 2017, s. 4, Applied:30 Jun 2017]

(1)  In this section –

Appropriation Bill means a Bill for an Act which authorises the issue and application of any money from the Public Account to meet –

(a) the cost of the ordinary annual services of the Government; or

(b) expenditure on public works or the acquisition of any property required for public purposes;

relevant Appropriation Bill means an Appropriation Bill which includes an amount to be appropriated in relation to the funding of the Mersey Community Hospital, whether or not the amount is specifically identified in that Bill to be for that purpose.

(2)  The Minister who introduces into the House of Assembly a relevant Appropriation Bill for a financial year in which a dividend is to be paid into the Public Account in accordance with section 18E(1) is to specify, in the papers that are tabled in the House of Assembly in connection with the Bill, the amount, included in an appropriation in the Bill, that is for the purpose of funding the Mersey Community Hospital, which amount is to be not less than the amount of the dividend.